SQUATTING EPIDEMIC - Enforcement unit yet to be implemented
AFTER YEARS of talk and official consultation, Government's squatter management unit is still not off the ground. In the meantime, squatting has grown into an epidemic which state and private land owners are finding difficult to manage.
Squatting in Montego Bay ... horrific past, hopeful future
SQUATTING REMAINS Montego Bay's biggest security concern and socio-economic challenge. With more than 80 per cent of the homicides taking place in informal settlements in St. James every year, and with some 30,000 houses in Montego Bay's 19 squatter...
JLP split over candidate for East Westmoreland - By-election could be held in May
WHILE THE race to fill the Eastern Westmoreland constituency seat, recently vacated by former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, intensifies, there is now turmoil within the ranks of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as to who should be its representative.
Shaw to ask about Air J in budget talks this week
OPPOSITION SPOKESPERSON on Finance, Audley Shaw, has grave concerns regarding the future of Air Jamaica, saying the national carrier has been badly mismanaged and at the expense of taxpayers.
PMI helps cut murder
IT HAS been four years since the Peace Management Initiative (PMI) started its work in volatile communities across the Corporate Area and the results to a large extent have been positive.
Budget restrains Government expenditure
OMAR DAVIES has won round one. He has presented a Budget which seeks to restrain Government expenditure to a level below what it was in the last financial year in real terms.
Pursuing new growth strategies (Part1)
ON A global basis, conditions have been very favourable to economic stability and growth. This robust performance has been flourishing since the early part of the last decade. For Jamaica, this has not been the case.
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