Adams urges teachers to vote for bravery
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Port Maria :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 05:59:31 -0700 | political-news
Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), last Friday charged candidates for the upcoming association election to defend the cause of the teachers of Jamaica. He was speaking at the annual general meeting of the St Mary Teachers' Association, at the Anglican Church...
Kartel's lawyer wants speedy trial
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 05:46:45 -0700 | allnews
The trial was set to start on July 8 after a prosecutor informed the court that the two prosecutors assigned to the case would not be available until July. Palmer, Lenburgh McDonald and Nigel Thompson are charged with the murder...
Kartel's lawyer wants speedy trial
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 05:46:45 -0700 | allnews
The trial was set to start on July 8 after a prosecutor informed the court that the two prosecutors assigned to the case would not be available until July. Palmer, Lenburgh McDonald and Nigel Thompson are charged with the murder...
Dear Counsellor: Loving a married man
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 05:46:45 -0700 | political-news
My babyfather is a good provider for the children, but he was mean to me. We did not live together because I have my mother living with me...Although I can afford it, he gives me money for myself and the...
Bosses seeing red! Long wait in lines keeping their workers off the job
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 04:21:55 -0700 | business-news
Long wait in lines keeping their workers off the job Published: Wednesday June 12, 2013 Jodi-Ann Gilpin, Gleaner Writer Local business operators are seeing red as they tire of coping with the loss of large chunks of productive time...
Tick, tick, tick i¿½ Jamaicans lose valuable production hours standing in line
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Half Way Tree :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 04:21:55 -0700 | allnews
People streamed in gradually at the National Commercial Bank (NCB) in Half-Way Tree, one of the Corporate Area institutions our news team visited on February 7, in a bid to determine the production time being lost while waiting in line....
Tick, tick, tick i¿½ Jamaicans lose valuable production hours standing in line
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Half Way Tree :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 04:21:55 -0700 | allnews
People streamed in gradually at the National Commercial Bank (NCB) in Half-Way Tree, one of the Corporate Area institutions our news team visited on February 7, in a bid to determine the production time being lost while waiting in line....
Waive income tax for some graduates - Campbell
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 04:21:52 -0700 | political-news
Campbell, who, at 30, is the youngest MP in Gordon House, suggested, among other things, that Government consider waiving income tax for certain graduates, directing such funding instead to repaying the loans at the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB). Campbell said...
Not enough money in the country's hurricane coffers
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 04:21:52 -0700 | travel-news
Noel Arscott, the minister with responsibility for local government, said the fund, which was established in 1995, was inadequate to meet the purposes, especially in the area of facilitating rapid response after disasters. "An assessment of the requirements for dealing...
Ministry looking overseas to place teachers
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 05:08:08 -0700 | political-news
This latest pronouncement follows comments he made at a meeting in Montego Bay on Sunday where he disclosed that his ministry would not be hiring any new teachers this year as part of stipulations by the International Monetary Fund. At...
Court hears that alleged bribe money was returned in Bicknell-Forbes trial
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 04:21:47 -0700 | political-news
Bicknell and Forbes are charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice. Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz, who is charged with breaching the Corruption Prevention Act arising from the incident, appeared in court yesterday and is to return on...
Simpson Miller, Neita-Headley wrong to deny UTech Trelawny stadium - Shaw
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 03:29:04 -0700 | business-news
Finance Audley Shaw has said Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and her minister with responsibility for sports, Natalie Neita-Headley, do not appear to understand the proposal for the Trelawny stadium to be turned over to the University of Technology (UTech)....
Sliding dollar to increase import costs
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 03:29:04 -0700 | business-news
Bloomberg on the 31st of May 2013 applauded the Jamaican currency for being the best performer in Latin America and the Caribbean against the US dollar in the month of May. Having already depreciated by more than 6.5 per cent...
Keisha Hill, Gleaner Writer
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 03:29:03 -0700 | technology-news
But, the school board, principal and teachers, with support from international organisations, are working hard to change this perception. The Art of Living (AOL) Foundation, established in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, recently began a Youth Empowerment Seminar (YES)...
Manslaughter charge in Hudson Valley cycle wreck
Source: SF Gate
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated 2013-06-12 00:30:06 -0700 | allnews
N.Y. (AP) A Hudson Valley man accused of driving drunk and killing a motorcyclist last month has been indicted on a vehicular manslaughter charge. The Ulster County District Attorney's Office tells local media outlets that 26-year-old Francisco Vasquez-Cruz of Poughkeepsie...
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