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Taxi fares are set to go up 20 percent by July 1, a Transport Ministry spokesman confirmed yesterday.
And cabbies will get a further five percent rise next year. They last had a rise in 1997.
Originally, Government had said the figure recommended by ...
DATE: May 12, 2004
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Plans to immediately axe all three top managers of the prison service have sparked alarm among the officers' union.
Prison Officers Association (POA) chairman Mike Tuzo said the officers were glad Commissioner John Prescod was going but they believe ...
DATE: May 12, 2004
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Saltus parents have been hit with another $2,000 fee hike ? just one year after the last one.
Tuition fees were raised from about $8,000 to $10,000 per child last September but now the school says another raise is needed ? pushing annual fees over $1...
DATE: May 12, 2004
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Horse and carriage drivers ? who have been battling with the Transport Control Department for over a year to get a rate increase ? may soon be cleared to raise prices.
?I understand Mr. Kevin Monkman was sitting on our proposal for a rate increase fo...
DATE: May 11, 2004
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The trial of a man accused of the attempted murder of a US tourist was set during yesterday's arraignment session.
Lorenzo Prince Robinson, 24, will appear for trial on October 18. He is accused of stabbing Scott Jable in the back as he was shopping ...
DATE: May 11, 2004
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Staff at the former Sonesta Beach Hotel will get a chance to meet the new management team Wyndham today.
Staff, many of whom have been laid off since Hurricane Fabian last September, will also get information on Wyndham's plans for waterfront hotel i...
DATE: May 11, 2004
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A 48-year-old lawyer, who denied that he was masturbating in a public place, may not have a case to answer Magistrates? Court heard yesterday.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to indecent exposure, prowling and mastu...
DATE: May 11, 2004
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Environment Minister Neletha Butterfield has declared war on an Asian weed that grows so quickly that it "threatens all plant life Island wide."
"It grows a foot a day and can cause significant damage to homes in its path," she said yesterday .
Ms Bu...
DATE: May 11, 2004
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Taxi drivers last night rejected part of a Government offer to give them a 20 percent increase in fares this year followed by a five percent hike later.
Taxi spokesman Lee Tucker said the decision was almost unanimous amongst what he said was an audi...
DATE: May 11, 2004
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A leading American psychologist believes drug treatment programmes in prisons should be scrapped because they are a waste of money.
Dr. Jeffrey Schaler, a psychologist and professor at American University in Washington, DC said: "We have to ask why a...
DATE: May 11, 2004
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