3,000 new jobs for micro-sector - Assamba
THE GOVERNMENT has projected that about 3,000 new jobs will be created in the micro-business sector when $200 million is pumped into the industry through the Micro Investment Development Agency (MIDA) this year.
Gov't not committed - Opposition denounces decision to cut Master Plan funding
THE PARLIAMENTARY Opposition has registered its disapproval of Government's announced plan to partially fund the US$1.6 billion Tourism Master Plan through the imposition of fees on tourists entering the island.
Two shot and killed in St Ann - ...In a series of robberies
TWO MEN were shot and killed, including one by the police, another man shot and injured and several guns and ammunition recovered by the police in St. Ann between late Friday night and early Saturday morning.
Alpart's construction deal gets Parliament's approval
ON JULY 28, 1966, Robert Lightbourne, the Minister of Trade & Industry, tabled a Ministry Paper (#52) in the House of Representatives...
NWC targets St Mary - In collection and disconnection drive
ST. MARY: THE National Water Commission (NWC) in St. Mary is conducting a disconnection and collection drive in the sea coast town of Annotto Bay in the parish as many customers have fallen into a state of delinquency.
Newsmaker profile: Dwight Nelson
WITH THE signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) earlier this year by the Government and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU), Dwight Nelson, a vice-president of the Confederation...
CARICOM to consider accepting Haiti's Gov't
CARICOM MAY at its Heads of Government meeting in Antigua in May, consider formally accepting the interim government of Haiti, says K.D. Knight, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade.
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