Government schools will receive a big slice of the capital projects cash within the coming year.
It is estimated that out of the total $109 million set aside for buildings and infrastructure, more than 30 percent will be absorbed into the education s...
I am going to continue to write about the Second Mindfulness Training: "Aware of the suffering caused by exploitation, social injustice, stealing, and oppression, I am committed to cultivating loving kindness and learning ways to work for the well-be...
The vision of the Minister of Education, Paula Cox, to make the public system of education the first choice of the public is neither laudable, nor correct, as mentioned in a recent editorial of January 30 headed "Education for All". Her vision is sim...
The vision of the Minister of Education, Paula Cox, to make the public system of education the first choice of the public is neither laudable, nor correct, as mentioned in a recent editorial of January 30 headed "Education for All". Her vision is sim...
The Budget may be the engine that turns the wheels of Government - but it also proves vital for the survival for many smaller, yet still important, organisations on the Island.
Among Finance Minister Eugene Cox's Budget for 2002-03 yesterday was almo...
Finance Ministry officials say the zero-based budgeting approach could "theoretically" minimise the need for supplementary budget requests - barring unforeseen events such as another terror attack on the United States.
Five Government departments wen...
In what Finance Minister Eugene Cox himself conceded could be described as a "sweetheart budget", if not an election budget, residents have been spared an onslaught of tax increases for the coming fiscal year.
In fact yesterday's Budget, while provid...
While the man in the street may well be pleased with yesterday's Budget at first glance, Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons sounded a warning bell, while suggesting that the ruling Progressive Labour Party (PLP) has general elections on its mind.
And he...
Government is to push ahead with plans for a new $11 million Magistrates' Court and Police Station with tenders set to go out in the Spring.
Finance Minister Eugene Cox said the building would include five new courts, a dedicated family court and a P...
Education was yesterday given a three percent increase in its budget - with Finance Minister Eugene Cox naming teachers as Government's number one priority this year.
He said a cash injection of $94 million had been allocated to public schools on the...
