An agreement between the Government and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) on a $4,000 per month pay increase over 2015/2016 is expected by the end of next week.
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OPPOSITION Member of Parliament Pearnel Charles yesterday severely criticised Government’s $4.9-billion deal with Israeli non-revenue water experts, Miya, questioning whether enough effort had been put into utilising the expertise available locally.
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Opposition raps $4.9 billion deal to plug NWC leaks
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A Kingston man who reportedly beat his five-year-old daughter with a broom and broke her arm because she could not spell the words “mother” and “father” was denied bail when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident’s Magistrate’s Court.
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FALMOUTH, Trelawny — The absence of a fire boat in this parish has been forcibly brought into focus following a fire which broke out onboard the cruise vessel Freedom of the Seas which called at the Falmouth Port on Wednesday.
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GOVERNMENT has moved to establish a new regulatory authority, which will perform testing and other functions now done by the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ).
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New regulatory body coming to test for standards
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TOURISM and Entertainment Minister Dr Wykeham McNeill says the sector is poised for major investments which will provide jobs and economic growth for the country.
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FRIENDS of Vaughn Moore, the soldier who was gunned down in the volatile community of Central Village earlier this year, are moving to launch a foundation to honour the life and work of the man who gave more than 15 years of service to his country.
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Exchange guns for education
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FORMER Cabinet Minister Senator Christopher Tufton says the Government’s failure to examine and report on a resolution passed in the Senate March 1, 2013 on legislating rainwater harvesting, is yet another example of a country that gives lip service to sustainable development, while citizens have to experience the hardships from a water crisis each year.
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MANAGING Director of Paymaster Jamaica Ambassador Audrey Marks thought about what she could do with money earned from trafficking in drugs, but opted against the illegal activity, having realised that she was not born and raised to indulge in such a thing.
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Audrey Marks’s drugs temptation
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MANAGING Director of Paymaster Jamaica Ambassador Audrey Marks thought about what she could do with money earned from trafficking in drugs, but opted against the illegal activity, having realised that she was not born and raised to indulge in such a thing.
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(This is a lightly edited address by Ambassador Audrey Marks, Managing Director of Paymaster Jamaica Ltd, to the 2015 graduating class of the St Mary High School)
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Take your values into the world;
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(This is a lightly edited address by Ambassador Audrey Marks, Managing Director of Paymaster Jamaica Ltd, to the 2015 graduating class of the St Mary High School)
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Take your values into the world;
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A Kingston labourer who is accused of robbing a security officer of $3,000 at knife-point claimed he did not steal from the guard but that the guard offered him $350 to show him his penis.
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Private dispute in robbery case
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UNLIKE the circumspect JAG Smith and Sir Harold Allan, who worried about the education level of the masses in promoting Adult Suffrage, Norman Manley was clear.
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Saluting Norman Washington Manley on his 122nd birthday
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