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No food in the fine print

A former Universal Service Fund (USF) legal officer yesterday testified that neither of the agency’s contracts with the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) nor with a private training institution made provision for meals for participants in an unattached youth training programme. Instead, she said participants received a monthly stipend of $10,600 from USF, paid fortnightly, to assist with…

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Spring Mount road in limbo

WESTERN BUREAU: More than a year after Hurricane Melissa destroyed a section of the Spring Mount main road in St James, the Government is still grappling with whether to repair the critical roadway or…

‘A lot of chatter’

Former United States (US) Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia says the Jamaican Government needs to be more forceful in negotiating deals with the US, arguing that it must do more to secure economic…

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