Aid for jobless: Labour minister moves to create unemployment fund
LABOUR AND Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles has disclosed plans to set up a social-security net to provide displaced workers with unemployment benefits.
- Air Jamaica management gets high marks for new business plan
- Businessmen awarded doctorates
- Transport ministry braces for new players
- How to enter the public-transport system ...
- Caution: high-risk public transport
- A dozen stories of inspiration: Paul Harding's triumph
- Kiwanis president speaks on global issues, volunteerism
Non-unionised workers to plead cases at IDT
SECURITY GUARDS and other categories of workers, who have been fighting for the right to union representation, could soon get the chance to argue their case before the Industrial Dispute Tribunal (IDT).
- Skills that will come in handy
- Watery send-off for Portland crash victims
- Jamaicans causing havoc in Saint Maarten
- Patricia Allen continues to walk with God in her new role
- Hiding overseas - Offshore companies getting Government contracts
- Bernard Madoff, Carlos Hill Modern-day Ponzis!
Clico troubles reverberate in the region - JMMB says it has no exposure
An overseas firm is being recruited to restructure companies that Lawrence Duprey's CL Financial controlled up to Friday, under a rescue plan launched by the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, and backed by the Patrick Manning government looking to...
- Seek solution to crisis from within say financial experts
- Job cuts, other dangers lurk for insurance: But companies expect to emerge from crisis 'relatively unscathed'
- Worried about retirement? Let's break it down for you
- Manage your credit cards and make money
- ... taming your bill
- Rohan Barnett takes a hot seat: New FSC head to lead cautious change
- Market trucks and motor insurance: Is Government doing its job?
- $Multimillion mobile ad wars
Jamaica take charge
Jamaica yesterday secured pole position in their top-of the-table WICB Four-day Championship clash against Barbados at Kensington Park, when chasing Barbados' first innings total of 293 they were bowled out for 314 in...
- Sir Viv Richards takes up another challenge
- Good tune-up for tourists
- Bell KO semis in spotlight - Premier League giants hunt places in final
- Pleasing runs by Olympic stars
- England favoured, but don't write off the West Indies
- Outstanding triumphs in Abe Issa feature
- Serena rules in Australia
- Bryan brothers claim seventh Grand Slam title
- Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce wants bailout for St James FA
- Ronaldo's penalty does it for Man U
- Seba, Frome in today's Jarrett Park showdown
- LogoStitch to the rescue
- Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) overpower Pembroke Hall in Div 1 TT
Recession requires creative response
Those nasty global economic winds from which Jamaica is already reeling have begun to concentrate minds here, leading in some instances to new and creative ways of doing business.
- A lost birthright: The haemorraghing of the bauxite sector
- Entrepreneurship and development
- 'Rampin' Shop' - musical poison
- Distorted desires, lost childhood
Letter of the day - JTB misses cricket opportunity
The Editor, Sir:As we prepare to host England in the first Test at Sabina Park next Wednesday, I'm hoping that the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) is all prepared to take advantage of the opportunity that this...
- Fix the dollar or let it loose
- Asking the wrong questions
- In defence of pilots' salaries
- Who qualifies for a visa?
OBAMARLEY Barack strikes a familiar chord with message of change and unity
United States President Barack Obama seems to have fulfilled the theme of Bob Marley's Black Man Redemption, governing a country which once treated blacks as second-rate human beings.
- Joan Wright quits covering up
- Celebrating Reggae Month
- Movie Review: Beware: 'Hotel for Dogs'
- Lutan Fyah presents 'Africa' double CD
- 'Black Mother Pray' made from women's prayers
- Huntley Brown - 'Top Caribbean Gospel Instrumentalist'
- Sly and Robbie still in the game
- Grammy Nods Burning Spear optimistic
Perfect six for 'Jamaica at the Wicket'
Jamaica at the Wicket by historian Arnold Bertram will hit the market shortly.
- SUNDAY SAUCE: Gillian versus her conscience
- My world
- A story of triumph over adversity
- Letters to home
Keith Bardowell's birthday bash
Keith Bardowell celebrated his birthday recently in fine style with his wife, Merline, family and close friends at their St Andrew residence recently.
- MY DOWN TIME WITH ... Leon Robinson
- 'TEASE' brings out the celebs
- Mega party
- out and about
- Twice the fun at Couples
- The 10 Hottest Spots
- The life cycle of the penis
- LET US PRAY
- DOCTOR'S ADVICE Sex makes her cry
- All that jazz!
Lessons from the global crisis
Those who are using apocalyptic language to describe the current global financial crisis are neither doomsayers nor religious nuts - they are simply realists.
- The paralysis of high interest rates
- Governance, knowledge and development
- Whistling past the graveyard
- Latin America and the global meltdown
Republican governors support stimulus bill
NEW YORK (AP):Most Republican governors have broken with their fellow party members in Congress and are pushing for passage of President Barack Obama's economic aid plan that would send billions to states for education, public works and health...
2009 Daihatsu Terios ... has grown up
DAIHATSU'S 1500-cc four-wheel runabout has grown up - well, sort of.
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