Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has rejected four of seven bids to build renewable energy systems here, and says the remaining three fall short of the 65 megawatts of additional generating capacity that Jamaica is seeking to power homes and businesses...
California Progress Report (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
By Frank D. Russo John Myers of KQED has a must read post with a juicy sound bite you can listen to from Governor Schwarzenegger as to who will be his likely successor as California’s next governor. The remarks come from Schwarzenegger’s answers to some questions this morning at...
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
FileMinister of Agriculture Christopher Tufton.John Myers Jr, Senior ReporterBrazil's Infinity Bio-Energy Limited will pay Jamaica US$50 per hectare, or US$1.55 million per year, for cane lands that it will lease alongside the five sugar factories it has bought from the debt-ridden Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ).The 31,000 hectares, said Agriculture Minister Dr Christo-pher Tufton, will...
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
With estimated reserves of at least 60 billion tonnes, Jamaica, the experts say, is merely scratching the surface of the potential value from mining limestone. he island is yet to exploit the true potential of the mineral and its associated downstream industries...
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
The government will have to write off most - and most likely all - of the nearly $300 million in insurance support it had to provide to banana farmers last year to coax them back into production after Hurricane Dean. But with uncertainty still hanging over the export...
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
Coffee has escaped significant damage so far this storm season and production of Jamaica's premium-branded Blue Mountain coffee for this year's crop is projected to increase, according to preliminary assessments of the sector.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
In his letter Days More Old Than Good (Sept. 2), John Myers of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education is right to say that failure and late penalties are not officially banned in Ontario high schools; their implementation, however, is so rigorously discouraged by administrators at all levels - ministry, board and school - that they might as well be banned. Most teachers disagree...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Two years ago this month, a band of men kidnapped Shamari Taylor, son of state Rep. John Myers, D-Northwest Philadelphia, on a residential street in Overbrook Park.
Philadelphia Daily News (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Two years ago this month, a band of men kidnapped Shamari Taylor, son of state Rep. John Myers, D-Northwest Philadelphia, on a residential street in Overbrook Park.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
... work would receive technology development awards. Now those awards are expected in October.Col. John Myers, project manager for Joint Combat Support Systems, said a budget reprogramming request approved by Congress for fiscal 2008 would provide additional funding to ensure the program stayed on track despite cost growth.The extra funds were needed to pay for the technology development...
