Bruce Golding News

By Richard Simon PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Grenada's Prime Minister Tillman Thomas has called for the setting up of a regional mechanism to deepen relations with South Africa, a member of the G20, during a CARICOM South Africa meeting on Sunday morning.

The Government is closer to a decision on whether to replace the United Kingdom-based Privy Council with the controversial Caribbean Court of Justice as the nation's final court of appeal, an administration official disclosed.

While Jamaica's commercial banks are stepping up their assistance to small and medium sized enterprises by providing low interest loans, government is also determined to play its part in strengthening support services to this sector.

Jamaica is not alone in this respect. Eleven Caribbean Commonwealth nations have legislation criminalising consensual same-sex sexual acts including Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St.

PARLIAMENTARIANS ON Tuesday objected to a request from the Chief of Defence Staff Major General Stewart Saunders for a special ceremony to laud soldiers who were overlooked for national honours and awards.

This is a very busy week for Prime Minister Bruce Golding. Sunday was his big speech to the closing session of the annual conference of his Jamaica Labour Party , the primary news from which was that the Government has not reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to borrow US$1.2 billion.

In a story headline entitled 'Gloomy Jamaica' published on the November 14, 2009, the highly respected Economist magazine, read by business and financial leaders worldwide, referred to Jamaica as "unfixable". In words that may even reflect some sympathy as to the extreme difficulty of Prime Minster Golding's job, the Economist noted: "Just over two ...

It has been a little over two years since the Jamaican people handed Bruce Golding and the Jamaica Labour Party the authority and power to govern, with expectations that they would deliver on promises made during the 2007 election campaign.

A senior Jamaican military officer says troops should be given more powers to help fight spiraling crime in the Caribbean country.

GENERAL SECRETARY of the Jamaica Labour Party , Karl Samuda, says the two-year-old Bruce Golding administration is adamant that the remainder of the political term will be used to undo much of the damage wrought by the global economic mess that has plunged the country into unparalleled hardship.

THE ruling Jamaica Labour Party is to throw a heavy security blanket around its 66th annual conference this Sunday at the National Arena, searching everyone, except diplomats and armed guards assigned to the prime minister's security detail.

The House of Representatives in Jamaica concluded debate on the new Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms Bill on Tuesday, with five amendments.

The Golding administration can claim, with fair justification, that it is lugging the baggage of its predecessor with regard to public perception about corruption in Jamaica.

With more than 277 lives lost on the nation's road since the start of the year, and as the Christmas season approaches, chairman of the National Road Safety Council , Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has urged motorists to avoid the dangerous practice of using cellular phones while driving and reiterated a warning against driving under the influence ...

PRIME Minister Bruce Golding indicated Thursday that in the future students pursuing programmes considered vital to the country's development will be preferred in applying for loans from the Students Loan Bureau .

AFTER JUST under three years in the job as Jamaica's high commissioner to the United Kingdom, Burchell Whiteman is to be replaced next January.

"In the future, I will become a gynaecologist" and "I know I will be a horticultural engineer" are some of the introductory utterances students make on our local quiz shows.

This ill-fated Nissan motor car plunged into the Rio Cobre last month. - Photo by Rasbert Turner Prime Minister Bruce Golding says yesterday's observance of World Remembrance Day for Road Crash Victims provides an opportunity for Jamaicans to recommit to safe road practices and increase awareness of their vulnerabilities as road users.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday called on the young professional arm of his ruling Jamaica Labour Party to support his government, in the face of mounting challenges posed by the harsh economic times.

In many ways we feel like the elderly man quoted in a two-part Sunday Finance report on the state of downtown Kingston that concluded this week.