JPSCo rebate unpaid - Refunds not yet paid to more than 200,000 accounts
Nearly four years after The Gleaner revealed that the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo) had overcharged its customers over $2 billion in fuel charges, some customers have not been paid their rebate. About 204,800 accounts...
Donors pressure parties
Senior officers in the island's main political parties admit that pressures from contributors for political favours was one of the major sources of corruption in Jamaica's politics that carry a serious threat to the island's democracy. Earlier this...
Transport Authority ordered to pay for unlawful seizure
The Transport Authority's unlawful detention of two minibuses is to cost the Government substantial sums in damages as a result of court rulings this year. In the case of Norman Johnson, a minibus owner, the Government was ordered to pay a total...
Forensic audit of CTL remains incomplete
The forensic audit of Caymanas Track Limited (CTL) ordered by Finance Minister Dr. Omar Davies eight months ago is yet to be completed, the Finance Ministry said on Friday. The audit was ordered, following the findings of a special report by...
Spring Plains divestment awaits Cabinet approval
The National Investment Bank of Jamaica (NIBJ), which is charged with the responsibility of overseeing the divestment of the failed high-tech Spring Plains/St. Jago properties in Clarendon, is awaiting Cabinet approval to lease them to a...
Choking in dust, smoke - Harbour View residents, Carib Cement Company at loggerheads
Five years after the Caribbean Cement Company (CCC) pumped almost $400 million into improving the management of dust emissions from its plants, residents of nearby Harbour View in eastern Kingston are again complaining of billows of dust particles...
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