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$100-m clean-up project set
Prime Minister P.J. Patterson (left) and Ralph Anglin, President of ALGA at the Conference Centre. Norman Grindley
GOVERNMENT WILL be spending $100 million on a general clean-up project across the island in the next two months under the "Lift Up Jamaica" programme, described by Prime Minister P.J. Patterson as one of four major initiatives to improve community and parish infrastructure.
The funds will be spent on the clean-up exercise between December 1999 and January 2000, the Prime Minister told the audience at the National Consultation on Local Governance at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston yesterday. Money is also to be spent repairing roads damaged by the recent flood rains.
One HIV baby born weekly
Dr. Figueroa
Mother-to-child transmission targeted
A PILOT project to help prevent mother-to-child transmission of the deadly HIV/AIDS virus is set to begin in January in four parishes which have the highest paediatric cases of the disease.
Student loan penalty disputed
TRN threat at issue
WHILE THE Director General of Tax Administration and some lawyers have questioned the legality of the Students' Loan Bureau's (SLB) actions, that agency insists it has the right to use delinquent borrowers' Taxpayer Registration Numbers (TRNs) to force them to pay up their debts.
More redundancies in December at D&G
OVER 100 EMPLOYEES are to be laid off by Desnoes and Geddes (D&G) in December, as it completes the shedding of its Pepsi subsidiary.
The redundancies were indicated at the announcement of the sale in October, but UCASE (Union of Clerical, Administrative and Supervisor Employees), an affiliate of the National Workers Union, representing some of the workers, has complained that it will be "painful" to make the workers redundant in the middle of the Yuletide season.
Millennium celebration plans launched
IT COMES around every thousand year and as a once-in-a-lifetime event warrants a period of reflection and national celebration.
On Tuesday at the Jamaica Conference Centre, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson launched plans for a year-long celebration of the new millennium. Called Millennium Celebrations 2000-2001, the Prime Minister urged Jamaicans to focus on the achievements of the nation during the period. Despite the difficulties, the passage of a thousand years warrants a period of national celebration, he said.
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