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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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NEW YORK, USA — A single mother apparently slit the throats of her three children, then sat with them and her toddler in their burning home until she died from smoke inhalation last week, according to police and autopsy results released today.

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RBTT Bank Jamaica Limited today announced that after a thorough strategic review of its business it will be closing three branches within the next six months.

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Like a wildfire, tales have spread in Old Harbour Bay, St Catherine, about a mysterious stone which residents claim fell from the sky on Tuesday morning. The stone is said to have fallen close to a man who was walking in an open field….

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