Civil servants OK Gov't offer
THE ISLAND'S civil servants yesterday voted to accept the Government's latest salary offer which will see their wages moving to within 80 per cent of rates in the private sector by 2005. Nine years in the making, having been first agreed to by...
Victim of cop shooting gets $2.5m
AN EX GRATIA payment of $2.5 million has been made by the Government to Clinton Bernard, the 32-year-old lithographic printer who is the victim of a policeman's bullet. Bernard's case sparked widespread debate and concern both at the local and...
Blackwell opens Island Village
THE NEW Island Village Shopping Centre, which was officially opened in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, on Saturday, represents a substantial investment of US$16 million and is the first attraction to be approved by the Ministry of Finance for incentives equivalent...
National Bee finals to kick off today
THE DAYS of nail-biting competition are here again, as 14 competitors, seven boys and seven girls from schools across the island, enter the final stage of the National Spelling Bee Competition. Today, the curtain rises on the 43rd staging of the...
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