http://jamaica-gleaner.com/ The oldest and leading newspaper in Jamaica editor@gleanerjm.com (Garfield Grandison) roland.booth@gleanerjm.com (Roland Booth) en-us Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT 60 Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT Newspapers Corrupt employees at some government agencies are making it even more difficult for the police to clamp down on the illegal lottery scam. A Sunday Gleaner probe has confirmed that fraudulent driver's licences, Tax Registration Numbers (TRN) and other documents are being sold across western Jamaica and the scammers are paying big bucks for them. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead1.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead1.html The family of a 59-year-old man, who has been in custody for the past four years, is crying for justice even as the matter is headed back to the courts. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead2.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead2.html The government's plan to spend close to $300 million to improve the housing stock in the depressed Corporate Area community Majesty Gardens will do very little to tackle what is a chronic problem facing the residents there. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead3.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead3.html More than three decades after the National Water Commission (NWC) ended its use of pipes made from asbestos cement to distribute drinking water the company has admitted that these are still in its distribution system. But like it did 30 years ago, the NWC is still adamant that there is no need to panic. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead4.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead4.html IN HER contribution to the Budget Debate in April 2009, Portia Simpson Miller, then Leader of the Opposition, introduced the nation to Tenniel. Simpson Miller told the Parliament that Tenniel has been impacted several times by the tax package announced by then finance minister Audley Shaw. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead5.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead5.html If the wheels of justice turn in favour of the Jamaican Government, several players in the illicit 'lotto scam' could find themselves on a free flight to the United States (US) to face a stern-faced judge and spend time in a jail cell. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead6.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead6.html Jamaica's ministries of agriculture and health have pooled their resources to ensure that a controversial beef product dubbed 'pink slime' does not enter the local market. Most local producers of beef patties and beef burgers have also denied using the product which is at the centre of a firestorm in the United States (US). http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead7.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead7.html The following is contributed by Citizens United to Reduce the cost of Electricity (CURE). http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead8.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead8.html The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) and the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) came out swinging over the past two weeks in rebuttals to an article I wrote that was published in the April 22, 2012 issue of The Gleaner. The article was titled 'Shock treatment: Can JPS do more to reduce energy cost?' http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead9.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead9.html THREE OF the country's main private-sector lobbies have embraced Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips' Budget presentation as an encouraging step in the right direction. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead1.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120527/lead/lead1.html