Scotiabank donates millions to education
THE SCOTIABANK Jamaica Foundation is donating $14 million to the Hugh Shearer Foundation and the Point Hill Diagnostic Reading Centre in St. Catherine, to fund educational programmes.
Green light to challenge bus award
THE GOVERNMENT was yesterday granted leave to go to the Judicial Review Court to apply for orders to quash the record $12 billion arbitration award in damages to the Ezroy Millwood-led National Transport Co-operative Society...
NWC deposits funds for road repairs
THE NATIONAL Water Commis-sion (NWC) has deposited $4 million into a bank account as the first step in a new agreement with the National Works Agency (NWA) that will see the executive agency effecting repairs to roads damaged by NWC's excavation...
NCB reports big boost in profits
THE NATIONAL Commercial Bank Group, a subsidiary of Canadian mutual fund company AIC, has reported profits of $2.8 billion for the full financial year ended September, 30, 2003.
Gov't to implement Information Act Jan 5
INFORMATION MINISTER Burchell Whiteman yesterday announced January 5 as the implementation date of the Access to Information Act and named the members of the tribunal who will hear appeals related to the Act.
'Pull those CCJ bills'
A BROAD coalition of human rights groups and the Farquharson Institute of Public Affairs are calling on the Government to withdraw three bills relating to the controversial Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), which were recently tabled in the Senate.
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