'Career jurors' in courts
CONCERNS ABOUT the continued selection from a pool of over-used or "career" jurors to work in the island's courts have been raised by persons in the justice system.
Pensioners demand increase...And no gender bias
GOVERNMENT pensioners who retired before 1995 are seeking a 100 per cent increase to their monthly stipend, an end to income tax deductions from the pensions of senior citizens over 75 and a halt to "gender discrimination" in disbursing NIS benefits.
Regional Anglicans oppose gay bishop
ANGLICANS FROM the Province of the West Indies have denounced the appointment of the openly gay Canon Gene Robinson as the next bishop of New Hampshire in the United States as an act incompatible with Biblical teachings and one likely to further divide...
Deadly Lakes Pen Road
RESIDENTS in Lakes Pen near Spanish Town, for example, say they are gripped by fear of motorists speeding recklessly along Lakes Pen Road.
Manufacturers sceptical of CSME
LOCAL MANUFACTURERS seem jittery about the impending CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) citing differences in certain regimes in the various countries of the region, that could pose a problem to economic integration.
'...Sector facing certain doom'
DAVID GAYNAIR, Managing Director of JGJ Products Ltd producers of hair care products is predicting that most local manufacturers will be forced out of business when Jamaica enters in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in 2005.
Mayor McKenzie's early challenges
THE NEWLY elected administration of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC), had a rude awakening to the magnitude of the problems it faces in terms of local improvements in the Corporate Area, during a tour on Monday.
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