Gov't chops fleet - Strict new policy for state-owned vehicles
FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS from Cabinet, the Ministry of Finance and Planning has begun implementing a strict new motor vehicle policy designed to provide greater control of the use of Government-owned vehicles. This forms part of the Government's...
'Renude' controversy
THE NEW nude 'Redemption Song' sculpture which stands at one of the entrances to Emancipation Park, has generated 'renude' controversy in the minds of many Jamaicans. The male and female bronzed figures rest on a concrete base with their legs in a...
'Emancipate yourselves...' - J'cans encouraged to honour the sacrifices made for freedom
JAMAICANS WERE yesterday urged to embrace the words of late Reggae legend, Robert Nesta Marley to free themselves from mental slavery by putting aside differences and working to improve the nation.
'When you talk, talk Jamaican'
WITH THE Maroon Town Community Enterprise being declared the winner of this year's Michael Manley Award for Community Self-Reliance, August 1, 2003 will be remembered as the day when the presentation of the Award became a platform for competing agendas.
UWI professor renews appeal for reparations
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ISLAND'S academia is renewing calls for reparation to Jamaica and other countries in the African Diaspora and Africa for the wrongs meted out to blacks during slavery. This time around, Verene Shepherd, Professor of Social...
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