Air Ja needs more cash - 'Butch'
CHAIRMAN OF Air Jamaica, Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, said yesterday that despite the national carrier's financial woes, it cannot be allowed to go under, stressing that it would need additional funding over the next two years.

NCB again gives big to education
THE NATIONAL Commercial Bank (NCB) yesterday handed over a cheque valued at $15.2 million to the overseas examinations office for the sponsorship of fees for the 2005 Caribbean Examination Council (CXC).

Judges decry poor state of transcripts
PRESIDENT OF the Court of Appeal, the Hon. Ian Forte, has joined a number of his colleagues in expressing dissatisfaction with what they say are numerous mistakes being made in verbatim notes of evidence taken at criminal trials.

Davies gets thumbs up
DR. OMAR DAVIES' official entry in the race to succeed P.J. Patterson as president of the People's National Party (PNP), and possibly as prime minister of Jamaica, has been well received by sections of the business community.

Strachan blasts health authority over breached contracts
THE NORTH East Regional Health Authority has come under criticism from Auditor-General Adrian Strachan for $1.2 million in unauthorised gratuity payments made to three officers who left the authority before their contracts had expired.