Credit card abuse - Officials charge personal expenses to gov't's account
SOME SENIOR Government officials have been charging thousands of dollars in personal expenses to government-funded credit cards and have even issued them to employees who are not eligible to use them.
What does renewable energy mean for Jamaica?
ENERGY IS simply the ability to do work. Renewable energy sources (RES) are those that capture their energy from existing flows of energy. RES sources in Jamaica include sunshine (solar power), wind, flowing water (hydropower) and biological processes.
Costly negligence
THE COUNTRY'S health sector has been slapped with at least 24 lawsuits for negligence over the last 13 years, Sunday Gleaner investigations have uncovered.
Ja not automatically backing Venezuela
for UN seat - Hylton
MINISTER OF Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Anthony Hylton has issued a strong warning to the Opposition not to play "political football" with Jamaica/Venezuela relations.
Rising costs of energy use
DR. RAYMOND Wright, former group managing director of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) and recent recipient of the first CARICOM Science Award, is fond of drawing a simple diagram.
How Government lost $350,000 on hotel booking cancellation
GOVERNMENT SHELLED out approximately US$6,000 (near $350,000) in 2003 to Locksley Smith, technical adviser to the Minister of Finance, for charges made on his personal credit card for cancelling a four-day hotel reservation in Milan...
Assets Recovery Agency clamps down on financial institutions
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS which fail to comply with a court order under the Proceeds of Crime legislation to pay money, held by clients, believed to be illegal gains from criminal activities, to the Assets Recovery Agency could be slapped with fines...
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