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Gov’t and NAJ Agree on Payment of Outstanding Allowances

Gov’t and NAJ Agree on Payment of Outstanding Allowances

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon Pearnel Charles(centre), makes a point to members of the Nurses Association of Jamaica’s (NAJ) negotiating team after their agreement on payment of outstanding allowances at the Ministry, North Street, Kingston, Wednesday (September 8). Fourth right is NAJ President, Edith Allwood Anderson. (JIS) The Government reached an agreement with [...]

September 8 2010 | Posted in Headlines | Read More »

Mike Henry Launches Portland Leg of $36b Road Works Programme

Mike Henry Launches Portland Leg of $36b Road Works Programme

Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects in the Office of the Prime Minister, and Member of Parliament for Portland Western, Hon. Daryl Vaz (right), and Deputy Project Manager of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP)/China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), Liu Jialin, participating in the launch of the JDIP in St. Margaret’s Bay, [...]

September 7 2010 | Posted in Headlines | Read More »

School Year Gets Underway With Few Hitches

School Year Gets Underway With Few Hitches

Chief Education Officer at the Ministry of Education, Mrs. Grace McLean. (JIS) Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Grace McLean is reporting that the 2010-2011 academic year got underway with few hitches, with at least 98 per cent of schools fully re-opened. “The reports have been coming in from the Regions and so [...]

September 6 2010 | Posted in Local News | Read More »

High Commissioner at Launch of Bolt’s Book

High Commissioner at Launch of Bolt’s Book

World and Olympic sprint champion, Usain Bolt (left), signs a copy of his new book -’Usain Bolt:9.58′, for High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Anthony Johnson, at the launch, held at the offices of HarperCollins Publishers, in London, on September 1. LONDON (JIS) High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), His Excellency Anthony Johnson, was [...]

September 5 2010 | Posted in Local News | Read More »

Nurses Call Off Demonstration, Meeting Set For This Morning

Nurses Call Off Demonstration, Meeting Set For This Morning

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon Pearnel Charles. (JIS) Registered Government nurses resumed normality Friday afternoon (September 3), after a meeting with Minister of Labour and Social Security, the Hon Pearnel Charles, at his Ministry, North Street, Kingston. Mr. Charles told JIS News after meeting with NAJ President, Edith Allwood-Anderson, and her team, that [...]

September 4 2010 | Posted in Local News | Read More »

Usain Bolt’s Mother to be First Recipient of IMOD Award

Usain Bolt’s Mother to be First Recipient of IMOD Award

Parents of sprint champion, Usain Bolt, Jennifer Bolt (3rd left) and Wellesley Bolt (2nd left), present a plaque of their son’s achievements to Jamaica’s High Commissioner to Canada, Her Excellency Sheila Sealy Monteith (3rd right), following the Independence Church Service in Toronto, Canada, recently. Looking on (from left) are: Patrick Cawley of PCF Company Ltd., [...]

September 3 2010 | Posted in Local News | Read More »

St. Thomas Leg of $36 Billion Road Programme launched

St. Thomas Leg of $36 Billion Road Programme launched

Minister of Transport and Works, Hon. Michael Henry, addressing Wednesday’s (September 1) launch of the St. Thomas leg of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), at the Paul Bogle Round-a-Bout, Morant Bay. (JIS) The St. Thomas leg of the Government’s multi-billion dollar Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) was launched on Wednesday (September 1), during a [...]

September 2 2010 | Posted in Local News | Read More »

Finance Minister Urges Banks to Drive Entrepreneurship Continues Call for Lower Interest Rates and Fees

Finance Minister Urges Banks to Drive Entrepreneurship Continues Call for Lower Interest Rates and Fees

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw (left) speakS at a press conference held at the Ministry in Kingston, on Friday, August 27. At right is Governor of the Bank of Jamaica, Mr. Brian Wynter. (JIS) Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, has charged commercial banks to be [...]

September 1 2010 | Posted in Local News | Read More »

Essential Free Laptop Apps

Essential Free Laptop Apps

The back-to-school 2010 edition includes suggestions based on reader feedback from previous free app roundups, including 7-Zip for opening compressed files, and the popular free antivirus software Avast. Several of these app have free Mac versions as well. Read more dtsv.dtse_post_3499_permalink = ‘http://www.csmebiz.com/?p=3499′; dtsv.dtse_post_3499_title = ‘Essential Free Laptop Apps’;

August 31 2010 | Posted in BLOG | Read More »

DIGICEL KICK START CLINICS WINNERS WATCH SUNDERLAND AFC BEAT MANCHESTER CITY 1-0 IN SUNDAY’S BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE CLASH

DIGICEL KICK START CLINICS WINNERS WATCH SUNDERLAND AFC BEAT MANCHESTER CITY 1-0 IN SUNDAY’S BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE CLASH

Monday, August 30th 2010 – Sunderland, England: To cap off what has been a fantastic week of training at Sunderland AFC’s Academy of Light, the Digicel Kick Start Clinics winners yesterday watched Sunderland AFC beat Manchester City in the Stadium of Light, when Darren Bent’s injury-time penalty condemned Manchester City to their first defeat of [...]

August 30 2010 | Posted in Sports | Read More »