Forbes backs ban on knives

WITH 711 people in Jamaica killed by knives, machetes and ice-picks during the last three years, Police Commissioner Francis Forbes is solidly supporting the Government's push for the enactment of the Offensive Weapons Act. The Commissioner said the...

JUTC Management, staff to discuss strike issues
THE MANAGEMENT and staff of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) are set to meet in January 2001 to discuss the concerns that led to bus drivers and conductors going on strike last week. The decision for the January meeting came from a two-hour...

36 to go with SIH closure

THE GOVERNMENT is to wind up, from today, the operations of Sugar Industry Housing Ltd., with headquarters at 16 Oxford Terrace, Kingston 5, with 36 staffers set to lose their jobs within the next three months. According to Roger Clarke, Agriculture...

Jamaican Embassy lobbying against certain deportations
OFFICIALS AT the Jamaican Embassy, Washington, D.C., are lobbying the US Immigration and Naturalization Service not to deport Jamaicans who are legal permanent residents, especially those who had migrated there from early childhood. "We are in...

UCJ accredits five degree programmes
THE BOARD of the University Council of Jamaica (UCJ), has granted accreditation to five degree programmes in two universities, and re-accreditation to two programmes at another institution. One institution was also registered for the first time. The...