Windalco-NWU stalemate
THE NATIONAL Workers Union (NWU) yesterday refused to continue wage talks with officials from the West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco) at the Ministry of Labour, insisting that the discussions continue at the local level.

Budget cut by $900 million
THE GOVERNMENT has reduced by just under $1 billion, its planned spending for the soon-to-be concluded 2005/2006 financial year. According to the first supplementary estimates tabled in Parliament yesterday, calculations for recurrent spending...

Christians make Rights Charter submission
PARLIAMENT YESTERDAY received submissions from a church group, which demanded a last-minute hearing from the Joint Select Committee of Parliament considering the Charter of Rights Bill. But the expected discussion would not take place today...

Rasta icon Mortimo Planno is dead
MORTIMO ST. GEORGE Planno, a prominent figure in the Rastafarian movement, has died. He was 76 years old. Planno, one of the founding members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jamaica, died Sunday at the University Hospital of the West Indies.

Electorial Advisory Committee (EAC) urges voters to get reverified
THE ELECTORAL Advisory Committee (EAC) is appealing to electors who have not been reverified for the May 2006 voters' list to do so now. The whereabouts of nearly 345,000 people of some one and a half million names...

Vauxhall teachers protest violence
TEACHERS AT Vauxhall High School in east Kingston boycotted classes for a second consecutive day yesterday, protesting against inadequate security at the institution. Several placard-bearing students converged in front of the school's gate...