Government must reconcile in the 2008-2009 Budget an increased pay package for nurses, police and other civil servants, as well as user- and tuition-fee removal from public hospitals and schools.Finance Minister Shaw said, however, that people should...
THERE ARE men at the Pedro Cays who are said to have been there since the place was one grain of sand. They have seen countless storms and captured an uncountable number of fish and conch.
It's a beautiful, peaceful afternoon with hardly a human sound in evidence. The bluster of the cold wind tugging at our coats is the only interference as we stand there outside historic Inveresk Lodge, on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Thousands of the nation's public-school teachers are barely computer literate. A survey commissioned by e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited (e-ljam) last year showed that more than 60 per cent of secondary-school teachers were in dire need of computer training suited to
Some 50 public sector financial investigators from Jamaica and other Caribbean countries have completed a short, intensive training course. They graduated recently from the Caribbean Regional Drug Law Enforcement Training Centre at Twickenham Park in St Catherine.
DAYS AWAY from the tabling of the first budget estimates since forming the government last September, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration is not worried about keeping its pre-election promises.
Tense? Angry? Can't get online? Internet addiction is now a seriouspublic health issue that should be officially recognized as a clinicaldisorder, according to a leading psychiatrist.Excessivegaming, viewing online pornography, emailing and text messaging havebeen identified as causes of a compulsive-impulsive
Energy companies have recorded whopping profits as the price of oilhas surged over the past year. But while shares of those firms havetraditionally tracked oil prices, they haven't kept pace this timearound.The cost of one barrel of oil on the
The Antarctic, one of the planet's last unspoiled ecosystems, isunder threat from mankind's insatiable appetite for harvesting the seas.Thepopulation of krill, a tiny crustacean, is in danger from the growingdemand for health supplements and food for fish farms. Global warminghas
With little-noticed procedural and policy moves over several years,Bush administration officials have made it substantially more difficultto designate domestic animals and plants for protection under theEndangered Species Act.Controversies have occasionally flared over Interior Department officials who regularly overruled rank-and-file agency
As Congress and the Bush administration struggle to contain thehousing and credit crises - and prevent more Wall Street firms fromcollapsing as Bear Stearns did - a split is forming over how tostrengthen oversight of financial institutions after decades ofderegulation.The
Intellpuke: This editorial appeared in the New York Times edition for Sunday, March 23, 2008.The Supreme Court is throwing itself back into the debate overindecency on television, and that may not be a good thing. It agreedlast week to review
During his nearly four years as a translator for U.S. forces in Iraq, Saman Kareem Ahmad was known for his bravery and hard work. "Sam puthis life on the line with, and for, Coalition Forces on a daily basis,"wrote Marine
Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to 2005.The White House revealed new information about how it handles
The Pentagon on Friday ruled out including Adm. William Fallon as awitness before Congress when the top U.S. military and diplomaticofficials in Baghdad testify next month on the way ahead in Iraq.Fallon'sabrupt announcement March 11 that he was resigning, effective
A MAN was in hospital fighting a rare form of tuberculosis yesterday as health experts sought to reassure the public that precautions were being taken to prevent it spreading.
WHEN it was first published in 1810 The Lady of the Lake, with its vivid descriptions of Highland scenery, provoked a tourism boom, with visitors wanting to see Walter Scott
