Bill stays for now - Court grants consent for former Scotia head to keep bank-assigned house, cars
Retired president and CEO of Scotiabank, William 'Bill' Clarke, will maintain possession of the house the bank had assigned to him for at least another five weeks. A consent order was made yesterday when the parties appeared before Supreme Court Judge Roy Anderson...
- Prime Minister of Jamaica defends Budget cuts in key areas
- Purpose-driven life for McKayle
- Parish councils clamping down on unauthorised Claro cell towers
- Mother of baby who burnt to death could be charged
- Maureen Jones loses battle with cancer
- NEWS BRIEFS
No job too small
It was the desire to be in the thick of action that changed Dylan Coke's career path from law to investment banking. "I wanted to be in the driver's seat," said the assistant vice president, Business Development, NCB Capital Markets Limited, "so I decided...
- Drought to disrupt water supply
- Petrojam denies safety-risk claims
- Project eyes 12,000 - Free vision screening under way islandwide
- Government of Jamaica to recruit Port Security Corps in robot taxi clampdown
- Across the nation
- Bignall is new NCU chairman
'Business as usual at Lascelles' - Bond float puts conglomerate at centre of Clico drama - NCB won't disclose exposure
Jamaican investors could be exposed for as much as US$40 million from a bond that Lawrence Duprey's tottering CL Group raised on the local market last June to help finance its US$700 million acquisition of Lascelles deMercado. Yesterday, NCB Capital Markets/NCB...
- After two decades, Salada to pay dividend
- Sugar company to lose another $4.2 billion
- CL's bailout face parliamentary hurdle
- Movements - FirstCaribbean snatches corporate banker from NCB
- New Carib aviation body to be launched today
- Cuba hands out 45,000 land parcels to farmers
- Bankrupt Virgin Islands telecom may get new owner
- Posh lifestyle prompts probe of Carib leader
- Irish debt crisis
- Luxembourg to shut down Madoff-linked hedge fund
West Indies seek perfect launch
The West Indies are hoping for a perfect start to grab an early lead, as they seek to transform their recent run of failures against England, when the first of the four-Test rubber in the 2009 Digicel Home Series bowls off at Sabina Park today at 10 a.m...
- WI vs England down the years
- Sprint looks set for Twist of Fate
- 'Very important' game for West Indies
- Strauss predicts fiery start
- 'No big deal'
- Tough-talking Chambers fancies beating Bolt
- Champs Camperdown cruise into semis
EDITORIAL - Reopen sugar bid
The Government's botched and, ultimately, failed effort at selling the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) has to be among the most inexpertly and ineptly handled negotiation ever by a Jamaican administration.It took the passage of three deadlines for the Golding administration...
LETTER OF THE DAY - The need for vigilant censorship
The Editor, Sir: The articles 'Rampin' Shop - musical poison' and 'Distorted desires, lost childhood', appearing side by side on the Opinion page of The Sunday Gleaner of February 1, were absolutely worrying. They called our attention to the crude realities...
- A disservice to customers
- Ways to reduce UWI costs
- Judge not
- A place for 'Rampin Shop'
- Air Jamaica's comical paradox
- Tyson's outrage misses some crucial points
- Disturbed by X-rated lyrics
- Bringing the law into disrepute
- Smoking bana good move
Morris honoured as 'Poetic Pioneer'
When Mervyn Morris turned on the crutches supporting him to face the gathering at Poets' Corner, Hope Gardens, St Andrew, on Sunday afternoon, he immediately thanked the Dub Traffickers "for a very generous honouring of me today". That "generous honouring" had been done in dramatic...
- Bale launches profane tirade on cinematographer
- Reggae Month begins with thanksgiving
- Applications open for Miss Jamaica Universe 2009
- Something extra
Surviving redundancy
Downsizing, rightsizing, call it what you may, many businesses are taking steps to prevent themselves from capsizing. The world is in turmoil and there is no longer any safe haven. Here in Jamaica, we are also waking up, almost every morning, to learn of another company ...
- Conversations with mothers of autistic and disabled children
- Attacking high cholesterol
- The fight against hunger
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US' first black AG sworn in
WASHINGTON (CMC): Eric Holder was officially sworn in yesterday as the first Caribbean-American attorney general of the United States.Holder, 58, the son of a Barbadian father, has also become the first black attorney general in the US...
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