JPSCo hikes rates - Consumers to pay more this month for light bills
JAMAICA PUBLIC Service Company (JPSCo) customers will have to pay increased bills this month. The company said yesterday that the increases have resulted from rising world prices for fuels, as well as the depreciation of the Jamaican dollar.
PM defends increase in PR/advertising budgets
THE OPPOSITION Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has criticised the significant increase in the advertising and public relations budgets of four Government agencies in the months leading up to the October 16 general election last year.
Karl Blythe cleared
DR. KARL Blythe, former Water and Housing Minister in the P.J. Patterson Cabinet, has been exonerated from any wrongdoing in relation to the Operation PRIDE/NHDC scandal which rocked the People's National Party (PNP) administration early last year.
Model police station for Grants Pen - US, Ja Gov't sign multimillion dollar agreement
US, Ja Gov't sign multimillion dollar agreement THE UNITED States and the Jamaican Government yesterday signed a multimillion dollar agreement to build a model police station in Grants Pen, St. Andrew.
Some IT companies owe Gov't millions of dollars
THE GOVERNMENT is owed millions of dollars by some of the Information Technology (IT) companies which were granted loans from the Intec Fund to kick-start their operations.
Government's economic model withstands challenge
FOLLOWING A vigorous three-hour debate yesterday, the Government narrowly defeated an Opposition motion for a change in the economic model being pursued by the Patterson Administration.
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