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false hope - - Workers resigning with wrong - expectation of redundancy payment

Published: 19/04/2018

Scores of employees have been resigning from their jobs with the mistaken expectation that they will receive redundancy payments from their employers, a Ministry of Labour official disclosed yesterday ... Read more

Source: jamaica-gleaner.com
McKenzie holds talks with Chinese ambassador on fixing parochial roads

Published: 19/04/2018

With deplorable road conditions in many parts of rural Jamaica posing serious problems to farmers and motorists, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has begun preliminary talks with the Chinese ... Read more

Source: jamaica-gleaner.com
Youthlink seminar boosts - confidence of CSEC exam students

Published: 19/04/2018

Many fifth- and fourth-form students from high schools across the island have received a confidence boost heading into mathematics and English external exams next month, following yesterday's Youthlin ... Read more

Source: jamaica-gleaner.com

Wisynco, JMA partner to encourage recycling at Expo Jamaica 2018

Published: 19/04/2018

The largest biennial trade show in the Caribbean, Expo Jamaica, gets going today, with the opening ceremony slated for 5:30 p.m.Under the theme 'Advancing Breakthoughs', the Jamaica Manu-facturers' As ... Read more

Source: jamaica-gleaner.com
Respect our democratic process - Holness tells gay advocates overseas

Published: 19/04/2018

In an apparent push-back against pressures from some gay lobby groups and pro-gay countries that are frustrated by the slow pace at which Jamaica is moving to secure the rights of LGBT people, Prime M ... Read more

Source: jamaica-gleaner.com
Ten-digit dialling not likely to pose any major problem, says business leader - Non-smartphone users to start editing local numbers

Published: 19/04/2018

Private-sector leaders say that their organisations are prepared to integrate the 10-digit telephone dialling sequence that is due to come on stream later this year along with the introduction of a ne ... Read more

Source: jamaica-gleaner.com

McKenzie gathers information on Albion Estates green space

Published: 19/04/2018

Edmond Campbell/Senior Staff ReporterThe Ministry of Local Government is now gathering information in relation to a disputed 400-acre lot in Albion Estates, St Thomas, where residents have complained ... Read more

Source: jamaica-gleaner.com
Cambridge happy with Ratty's demise - But worry that his influence might linger

Published: 19/04/2018

Western Bureau:While they are not out celebrating, many residents of Cambridge in St James are quietly thankful that they will no longer have to face the wrath of top gangster Ryan 'Ratty' Peterkin, w ... Read more

Source: jamaica-gleaner.com
Developer wants arbitration in Liberty Estate sewage row

Published: 19/04/2018

Landmark Developers Limited is pushing for arbitration in the sewer system dispute at Liberty Estate, St Ann. Karl Samuda, minister with responsibility for housing, announced last week that he would p ... Read more

Source: jamaica-gleaner.com

Holness supports transformation of ACP Group

Published: 19/04/2018

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness on Monday urged the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) to continue its efforts to transform itself into an “effective global player”.“ ... Read more

Source: www.jamaicaobserver.com
NHF launches mobile dispensing unit pilot project

Published: 19/04/2018

The Ministry of Health, through its agency, National Health Fund (NHF), launched its Mobile Dispensing Unit (MDU) pilot project on Monday, which will provide prescribed medication at the bedside of pa ... Read more

Source: www.jamaicaobserver.com
Juvenile remand centre farm to be expanded

Published: 19/04/2018

STATE minister in the Ministry of National Security Rudyard Spencer says the ministry will be working to expand the farm programme at the Metcalfe Street Secure Juvenile Remand Centre into one that is ... Read more

Source: www.jamaicaobserver.com

Barbara Bush: America's 'First grandmother'

Published: 19/04/2018

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) — Barbara Bush cast herself as an enthralled spectator of her husband's rise to the presidency, but once in the White House, it was America's “First Gra ... Read more

Source: www.jamaicaobserver.com
Younger party official faces test as Cuba's next president

Published: 19/04/2018

SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AP) — Raul Castro travels in motorcades of gleaming imported sedans. Rings of grim-faced bodyguards protect him, pistols under crisp guayabera shirts. The 86-year-old presiden ... Read more

Source: www.jamaicaobserver.com
In symbolic vote, Venezuelan legislators decide to prosecute Maduro

Published: 19/04/2018

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) Venezuela's Opposition-controlled National Assembly yesterday approved plans to prosecute President Nicolas Maduro for corruption in a non-binding yet symbolic vote by a legis ... Read more

Source: www.jamaicaobserver.com

Woman, son charged after cops find gun under kitchen counter

Published: 19/04/2018

ST ANN, Jamaica — The police have charged a St Ann woman and her son in connection with this morning’s seizure of a firearm and several rounds of ammunition in Mansfield Heights, St Ann.Th ... Read more

Source: www.jamaicaobserver.com
'Artificial mole' could warn of cancer — study

Published: 19/04/2018

TAMPA, United States (AFP) — Swiss scientists have developed an experimental skin implant that darkens like a mole when it detects subtle changes in the body that may be an early warning sign of ... Read more

Source: www.jamaicaobserver.com
Safeguarding children in sport a priority — Grange

Published: 19/04/2018

Kingston, Jamaica — Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, says the development of a policy and regulatory framework for safeguarding children in sport is a “ ... Read more

Source: www.jamaicaobserver.com

More teachers to be trained in restorative justice

Published: 19/04/2018

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Beginning in May, the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Information will be training more teachers in restorative justice practices, in keeping with strategies to impro ... Read more

Source: www.jamaicaobserver.com
Holness gets support - British PM promises to help reform anti-gay laws

Published: 18/04/2018

British Prime Minister Theresa May has apologised for Britain's historical legacy of anti-gay laws across the Commonwealth as its 53 leaders gathered in London for their annual summit."Nobody should f ... Read more

Source: jamaica-star.com
Police thank citizens for helping wounded cop

Published: 18/04/2018

The High Command of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) commended residents of Christiana in Manchester, for rushing to the assistance of a lawman who was chopped yesterday morning.A corporal from th ... Read more

Source: jamaica-star.com

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