Archive for January, 2009

IN A MOVE to save their jobs, workers at Berger Paints Jamaica Limited have agreed to a 20 per cent reduction in basic salary. This comes against the background of several local companies implementing cost-cutting measures, including staff redundancy, in response to the global…

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PERSONS FEARING they may again be asked to pay user fees in public hospitals, especially in these financially turbulent times, need not worry. The Ministry of Health and Environment says it has no intention of reversing the no-user-fee policy it implemented in April 2008…

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THE ENTIRE BOARD of Caymanas Track Limited (CTL) has been asked to resign, high-level government sources told The Gleaner yesterday.But Don Wehby, minister with-out portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, who has responsibility for CTL…

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Western Bureau:While noting that the full impact of the current global recession is yet to hit Jamaica, former Prime Minister Edward Seaga believes that Jamaica’s financial reality needs to undergo fundamental changes if the expected economic fallout is to be minimised…

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It came down to a nail-biting finish, but minutes into the reading of the citations, it became clear from the expressions on the faces of Jacqueline Simpson-Huntley and Nadine Molloy that they knew they would emerge the winners of the Lasco/Ministry of Education …

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CAYMANAS TRACK Limited (CTL) Chairman Pat Rousseau is refusing to respond to questions raised by a recent contractor general’s report into allegations of irregularities related to a satellite service contract with SportsMax Limited.SportsMax Limited had…

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A significant spike in the number of men being hospitalised has spawned an overcrowding nightmare at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), forcing officials of the nation’s premier health facility to admit men and women to the same ward…

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PASTOR DEREK Bignall is the new president of the more than 260,000-member West Indies Union (WIU) Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Bignall was elected yesterday to replace Dr Patrick Allen, who is to be sworn in as governor general on February 26…

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