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Here’s another recent Las May cartoon (which was featured in the Gleaner newspaper). It speaks to the ongoing wage dispute between the Government (represented by Finance Minister, Audley Shaw, in the cartoon below) and Government workers (police, nurses, teachers and others). Here are two related cartoons: No Money Now For The Police & Other Civil [...]

Today’s Las May cartoon in the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper, speaks to recent Government pronouncements that police, soldiers, teachers, nurses and other civil servants will have to wait at least three years (until 2013) to get all outstanding back pay and allowances that are currently owed to them by the financially-strapped Jamaican Government.

Speaking yesterday during a post-Cabinet meeting at Jamaica House, Prime Minister Bruce Golding said it is unfair and unreasonable for the police and teachers to be clamoring for salary increases, when both groups benefited from what he said were “significant” top-ups in the almost two years that his administration has been in office. Prime Minister [...]

A force majeure, is a common clause in contracts which basically frees both parties from liability or obligation, when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties prevents one or both parties from fulfilling their obligation under the contract. Is the Government planning to use force majeure when its wage dispute case [...]

Letter to the Jamaica Gleaner editor – Saturday, May 16, 2009 From Mark Bennett – presbent@yahoo.com Re: Call For Dialogue Between The Police & Government Dear Editor, Recently a number of persons, some obviously partisan, have come out swinging at the leadership of the Police Federation, and the police force in general, for their seemingly [...]