Archive for May 13th, 2011

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has said that getting the economy back on a path of growth is what will rescue Jamaicans from poverty.

Making his contribution to the Budget Debate in Parliament on Tuesday, Golding said that the Government will do everything possible to facilitate and accelerate that growth and that this is an area of focus for his Administration.

“The increase in the poverty level is directly attributed to the decline in the economy, loss of jobs and ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, May 13 (UPI) — Haiti’s new president, former musician Michel Martelly, will be inaugurated Saturday.

Workers were building wooden benches on the lawn of the National Palace, which was destroyed during last year’s 7-magnitude earthquake that killed an estimated 230,000 people.

“Everything is broken,” Daniel Supplice, head of Martelly’s presidential transition team, said in a Miami Herald report Friday. “But we don’t have a choice. The president has to be inaugurated either way. It has to be done. We have ...