Debt check - Government of Jamaica to roll out scheme this week - IMF letter of intent ready
THE GOVERNMENT has started talks with key stakeholders in an effort to get buy-in to its medium-term economic programme and a planned debt-management scheme. The debt-management scheme will be a key component of any deal which the Government strikes...

Analyst lauds Golding's latest move
AN INTERNATIONAL financial analyst has lauded the Government for being bold in its decision to restructure the country's debt. Gregory Fisher, managing director of Oppenheimer & Company's subsidiary, Atlanta...

Cold front brings out winter gear
Jamaica is the last place in the world where winter fashion could make a statement - until yesterday. As a result of Sunday's heavy winds and wind chill, persons got up yesterday morning and donned sweaters, jackets...

'Feed the poor instead' - Immaculate girl's Christmas wish was to make sure the homeless had dinner
While many thought about what they wanted for Christmas, Krystal Reynolds asked her parents to save the money they would have spent on her and feed the poor instead. Fifteen-year-old Reynolds, a fourth-form student at Immaculate Conception High...

Police shootings increase - report
The 2009 crime statistics have revealed that while there was a reduction in the number of guns and the amount of ammunition seized by the police, more people were arrested and killed. According to the crime statistics...

Trial for 86-year-old commences
The trial of 86-year-old consultant botanist George Proctor, who is charged with conspiracy to murder his wife and three other women who lived at their house, began yesterday in the Home Circuit Court. Proctor, an American,...

Defence lawyers on warpath
DEFENCE ATTORNEYS in the Cuban light-bulb corruption and money-laundering case say they will be seeking to block certain recordings from being entered into evidence.Patrick Atkinson, who represents North East St Elizabeth Member of Parliament Kern...