Yardee! Gleaner News Blog

Public-sector workers, worried about their jobs in light of the planned modernisation process, will have to wait until late this year to find out if they will be sent home.
It could be another two to three months before the country even knows how many…

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NEWS THAT tertiary-level students could face a staggering 100 per cent increase in tuition fees in the 2011-2012 academic year sent shock waves through a committee meeting in Parliament yesterday and threatens to reverberate across the society….

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TAXPAYERS may have to fork out US$57 million or approximately J$4.8 billion as exit fees from a currency-swop arrangement. Parliament yesterday approved a loan guarantee to refinance a €204.4-million loan from…

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The multibillion-dollar Highway 2000 project is causing fresh headaches for the Bruce Golding administration. The Government’s point man for the project, Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry, yesterday…

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STUDENTS AT the tertiary level who obtain loans from the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) and flee overseas to escape servicing those liabilities may, in future, be barred from leaving the country.Currently, there is draft legislation to amend the Students’…

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Jamaica’s recipient of the prestigious Hubert Humphrey Fellowship for 2010, Dr Colette Myrie, has pledged to use the opportunity to expand her knowledge so she can assist in countering the vast increase in chronic diseases affecting the island….

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ONE LOCAL transport operator who has accumulated at least two tickets per day within a two-year period has not been paying the fines. Transport Minister Mike Henry told Parliament yesterday the driver has accumulated more than 1,500 tickets…

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A teenage householder escaped death after a water truck smashed into a house in Top Hill, St Catherine, yesterday, However, the driver, 49-year-old Franklyn Hunter, also from Top Hill, sustained injuries to his head…

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A SENIOR member of the Obama administration revealed yesterday that a “series” of extradition requests have been made by the United States government for Jamaicans to be sent abroad for trial, but US officials are tight-lipped as to whether local elected officials …

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A cross-fertilisation of state-of-the-art technology and the ability of Jamaicans to be inventive - as in ‘tun yuh han mek fashion’ - is taking root at the Christiana Potato Growers’ Cooperative in Manchester….

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