Air Jamaica sold - First murmurs about who has bought the national carrier have surfaced The Gleaner | WESTERN BUREAU: | The Gleaner has learnt that Indigo Partners and Oaktree Capital, who are reportedly the owners of Spirit Airlines, have bought the country's national carrier, Air Jamaica. | It is further understood that Air Jamaica's name might be changed to Spirit of Jamaica. | Sources close to...
Keep on working - Psychologists show the way to ride out the recession The Gleaner | The difficulty of getting a job remains a growing problem which has got even worse with the global economic crisis pushing most companies towards making posts redundant. | Figures provided by the Planning Institute of Jamaica indicate that between October of 2008 and May of this year, 14,750 posit...
Global attitude benefits City Furniture The Miami Herald | Keith Koenig, the president and cofounder of City Furniture, loves the Bahamas -- not just because of the beauty of the islands or the people, but also because the Bahamas is the company's biggest export market. | City Furniture, a family-owned ent...
In Our Pages: 100, 75, 50 Years Ago The New York Times | 1909 Nineteen Dead on Holiday | NEW YORK Beautiful cool weather, with moderate to brisk north-west breezes, gave additional zest to-day [July 5] to the Independence Day celebration. Although New York had a quiet Fourth of July, three deaths attende...
From Haiti, a surprise: good news about AIDS The Press Democrat | Fifteen years later, she walks around her two-room concrete house on Haiti's central plateau, watching her four children play under the plantain trees. She looks healthy, her belly amply filling a gray, secondhand T-shirt. Her three sons and one da...
From Haiti, A Surprise: Good News About AIDS CBS News Though Struggles And Stigma Continue, Haiti Has Found Success In Its Fight Against AIDS | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments Photo | (AP) Photo | (AP) Photo | (AP) Photo | (AP) Photo | (AP) Photo | (AP) Previous slide Next slide (AP) When Michel...
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Indies Pharma makes history The Gleaner | WESTERN BUREAU: | A commitment to quality and leadership in the pharmaceutical industry has landed the Montego Bay-based Indies Pharma the prestigious 2009 Century International ...
Concrete expert raises quality test alarm The Gleaner | Jamaica is without a proper testing facility to ensure that the highest quality standards of concrete and other building inputs are maintained in construction projects, and one l...
Vale la pena on Costa Rica's Caribbean shore, part two The Examiner Comment RSS Email Print | Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) is a convenient one to exit. Off the plane, through the corridors, following immigration signs and arrows, and into a large room with enlarged rainforest prints on the walls and th...
Air Jamaica sold - First murmurs about who has bought the national carrier have surfaced The Gleaner | WESTERN BUREAU: | The Gleaner has learnt that Indigo Partners and Oaktree Capital, who are reportedly the owners of Spirit Airlines, have bought the country's national carrier, Air Jamaica. | It is further understood that Air Jamaica's name might b...
Jamaica wants better trade mechanism The Gleaner | CMC: | Jamaica on Friday called on its Caribbean Community (CARICOM) neighbours to devise a proper mechanism that would lead to increased intra-regional trade. | "Trade and the smooth flow of trade can't be dependent on an exporter getting hold of ...
Is there pensions apartheid? Well, if you're a nurse there is The Guardian | Indignation at "gold-plated" public sector pensions is the latest wave in the Conservative campaign to create a groundswell of support for spending cuts and shrinking the size of the state. Rightwing thinktanks, encouraged by David Cameron and even by the sainted Vince Cable in the Mail on Sunday, have just produced a series of reports attacking ...
