No primary 'fees' - Minister warns against barring students
NO PRIMARY school student should be charged fees or barred from school for non-payment of 'contributions' requested by the school, Maxine Henry-Wilson, the Education Minister, warned last night.
Lottery winnings tax begins today
THE GOVERNMENT'S planned 15 per cent taxation on lottery winnings will come into effect today.
Davies enters PNP's Region Three race
DEVELOPMENTS STEMMING from the last-minute entry yesterday of Dr. Omar Davies in the race for the chairmanship of the People's National Party's Region Three, resulted in the postponement of the election at the Jamaica Conference Centre...
Some teachers facing job shortage
WESTERN BUREAU: CONCERNS ARE being raised that an 'unusually high' number of teachers from western Jamaica, having just graduated from teachers' colleges, are having a difficult time securing jobs in the profession.
Detective constable still missing
AT PRESS time last night the police said they still had not found Det. Cons. Devon Pearson, 33, of the Greater Portmore police station, south St. Catherine, who has been missing since Thursday.
PM at parley in Cuba
PRIME MINISTER P. J. Patterson went to Cuba yesterday, his office said, to attend a major conference on sustainable development, poverty reduction and environmental preservation.
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