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Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
published: Wednesday | February 12, 2003

Unions boycott Labour Ministry
TODAY'S FIRST meeting of the Labour Advisory Committee (LAC), the tripartite body which helps to draft the Government's labour policies, has been postponed because of a boycott against Ministry of Labour meetings announced by the trade unions yesterday.

Davies backs BoJ plan to save sliding currency
FINANCE MINISTER Dr. Omar Davies yesterday warned speculators that the recent action taken by the Central Bank to shore up the local dollar would continue for as long as necessary.


Classes to resume today
TEACHERS IN the island's public school system should return to classes today, ending their two-day strike for an improved pay offer from the Government.


'Looseness and slackness' - Shaw lashes out at sloppy Government accounting
AUDLEY SHAW, Chairman of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC), has lashed out at senior public sector workers who continue to breach policy guidelines, often to the detriment of the taxpaying public.


PM to earn $6 million by 2005
PROJECTED SALARY increases for parliamentarians put the Prime Minister's pay at $6 million by 2005.


Uncertain fate for Iraqis held in MoBay
WESTERN BUREAU: THE FATE of ten Iraqi nationals - two of them naturalised Canadian citizens, who were detained by local immigration officials on Monday, remained uncertain up to late last night.


















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