Archive for September 14th, 2011

JAMAICANS will soon begin to feel the real heat from the recrafted 2011-2012 Budget, the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) spokesman on finance and planning, Dr Peter Phillips has predicted.

Speaking at the PNP’s West Rural St Andrew constituency conference at the Oberlin High School in Lawrence Tavern on Sunday, Dr Phillips told party supporters that last week’s tabling of the Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure in Parliament was destined to have far-reaching consequences

“There has been a collapse of ...

Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn, and a team comprising senior engineers from the Ministry of Public Works and Communication, recently visited the Essequibo island of Leguan and interacted with rice millers. Some of the concerns raised by millers  were the condition of the road which they use to transport their crops; the unavailability of efficient transportation to move  crops to and from Georgetown; losses they suffer at spring tide; and the desilting of the drainage system to ...