MP salary review - PM suspends further pay increases
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson has suspended further salary increases to parliamentarians pending the recommendations of a five-member committee set up to review their salaries.
Lawyers' protest disturbs House
A GROUP OF placard-bearing members of the Jamaican Bar Association walked out of the House of Representatives yesterday after Speaker of the House Michael Peart threatened them with eviction.
Amnesty to step up pressure against hanging
SAYING THE death penalty is no more a deterrent to crime than extra judicial killings have been, Amnesty International has vowed to step up its pressure on the Jamaican Government to abolish hanging.
PAC to clip EAC wings
DANVILLE WALKER, the tough-talking Director of Elections, yesterday earned the ire of the members of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) when he tried to explain the rationale behind the policy of the Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC)...
Three convicted for Sylvia Edwards' murder
THREE MEN were convicted yesterday of the murder of Sylvia Edwards, 48, the gas station operator who was kidnapped in July 2000 and then shot and killed when demands for a ransom were not met.
NGOs can access funds to fight AIDS
COMMUNITY BASED, faith based and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can now access US$1.5 million in additional funding to design, implement and sustain demand driven intervention programmes aimed at reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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