Witter: I’ve done enough to secure re-election

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Witter: I’ve done enough to secure re-election

Franklin Witter is certain the electorate in St Elizabeth South Eastern will return him to the House as their representative on the night of September 3. In fact, the Jamaica Labour Party’s man believes he has done enough work to extend his 205-...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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JAMAICA Teachers' Association President Owen Speid has called on the Government to provide funding to private schools, many of which are now struggling to stay afloat due to the COVID-19 pandemic which resulted in school doors being closed from early

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Sheila Sealy Monteith, Jamaica's ambassador to Belgium and permanent representative to the European Union — who also has accreditation to France, Luxembourg, Monaco, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain — confirmed to the Jamaica Observer that plans are far advanced to have a charter flight leave

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VM labours for learning

VM’s 2020 Labour Day project, dubbed ‘Labour for Learning’, saw the organisation donating digital education kits to 21 students across the

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The aftermath of abduction has severe emotional impact on victims, many of whom never fully recover from the traumatic

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COVID-19 blamed for one-year construction delay for MoBay bypass

MONTEGO BAY, St James — The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been blamed for pushing back, by a year, the start of construction on the highly anticipated US$22-million Montego Bay bypass

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‘It nuh fair !’ - Residents of Golden Grove Meadows bemoan exorbitant light bills from JPS

As if their struggle with a sewage issue in their neighbourhood isn’t enough of a burden, the recently relocated ex-sugar workers and their families at Golden Grove Meadows in St Thomas are bemoaning exorbitant light bills, which they say have resulted in numerous disconnections over the past few

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Cracks open up over egg scramble - Producers reportedly skipping line at farmers’ markets

A falling-out amid the executive of the Jamaica Egg Farmers’ Association (JEFA) over alleged abuse of government subsidy, as well as the subsequent sidelining of the sector lobby, has pitted President Roy Baker against his vice-president, Mark Campbell, and secretary Cheryl

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IDT rules in favour of BOJ in vacation leave dispute

The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) has sided with the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) in a long-standing dispute with the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) over a change in the bank’s vacation leave policy, over which the union has expressed strong

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Tourist pretesting back on agenda - Tufton admits island’s COVID-19 response buckling under pressure

The Jamaican Government is reconsidering the imposition of COVID-19 pretesting of arriving tourists as the coronavirus response architecture at the island’s airports has been overwhelmed by passenger traffic, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton admitted on

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Rajana Price (left), Mini Miss ROOTS 96.1 FM, makes a donation of needed food items to Mustard Seed Communities at its Mahoe Drive headquarters in Kingston 11 on May

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BPOs donate care packages to Granville residents

ONE HUNDRED and twenty families in Granville, St James, received a special treat yesterday when they were given care packages with food and snacks by the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ), as part of the group’s ongoing outreach support programme amid the COVID-19

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'It was the experience of a lifetime'

SEVERAL residents in Falmouth, Trelawny, paused yesterday to welcome home the more than 1,000 Jamaicans aboard Royal Caribbean cruise line's Adventure of the Seas which docked at the port shortly after

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OUR expands high electricity bills probe

The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) is reporting that it has expanded the scope of its investigation into complaints about high electricity bills from customers of the Jamaica Public Service Company

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Jamaica Reopens Next Week As Caribbean Opens Back Up For Travel

In a QA with Black Enterprise, Jamaica's Minister of Tourism, the Honorable Edmund Bartlett, discusses the island's plan for reopening next week as Caribbean tourism begins to resume for the summer.

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Research shows COVID-19 lockdown could scar children

Child development specialist Professor Maureen Samms-Vaughan is warning that children will need special attention in the coming months as research has shown that the strict measures implemented to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus could have a lasting negative psychological effect on

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Corporate Hands | Sagicor Bank presents grant to Spelling Bee champion

Maurice McDonald, branch manager, Sagicor Life Jamaica, Spanish Town, hands over a symbolic cheque to a jubilant Toriann Beckford, the 2020 Gleaner’s Children’s Own Spelling Bee champion, while her mother, Winsome Hines, looks on, during a visit to the branch last

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UDC gets $1b refund for doomed hotel deal

THE URBAN Development Corporation (UDC) has received nearly $1 billion in the revised budget to refund Puerto Caribe Properties Limited, a subsidiary of Palace Resorts, after the company pulled out of a sale agreement for Rooms on the Beach property in Ocho Rios earlier this

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Rock River residents want poor drainage to be fixed

AS THE hurricane season gets into high gear, some residents of Rock River in northern Clarendon are apprehensive about the damage and loss of livelihood that can arise from a drain at the back of their

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Stagnant NDM in a coma, says chairman

THE NATIONAL Democratic Movement (NDM) is emerging from “a coma” and has scaled down to an advocacy group, Chairman Michael Williams has

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Earth Today | Build back blue, green and better

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No dominoes at church!

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Pastor of the King's Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mount Salem, Charles Brevitt, yesterday warned members of his congregation to “cease and desist” from playing dominoes on the compound, arguing that if the Government is not allowing it to be played in bars, then members

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KSAMC to clean more than 100 Corporate Area drains

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36% of public sector workers not expecting wage increase this year — survey

THIRTY-SIX per cent of public sector workers surveyed recently believe that they will not be granted a wage increase this year because of the economic strain and reduced financial resources brought on by the COVID-19

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Teachers will get tablets, Anderson assures

LUCEA, Hanover — Immediate past president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Dr Garth Anderson says an appeals process has been established to address issues that may arise during the distribution of over 25,000 tablet computers to public school teachers across the

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Alleged lottery scammer nabbed in St James

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Shaw pushes irrigation as rainfall lags

Agriculture Minister Audley Shaw has pledged to aggressively expand the footprint of drip irrigation as Jamaican farmers wilt under searing temperatures amid below-average

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