Weekly Round-up: Farm roads controversy … Siren, police lights on JP’s BMW… Boyz draw 1-1 with Guyana
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November 22, 2019

Weekly Round-up: Farm roads controversy … Siren, police lights on JP’s BMW… Boyz draw 1-1 with Guyana

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips on Tuesday made a request for the Auditor General to conduct a full financial audit of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority’s (RADA’s) Farm Roads Rehabilitation Programme claiming “a massive scheme to steal public funds” was taking place at the State agency. 

Meanwhile, a St Andrew-based justice of the peace on Wednesday found himself in trouble with the law after a flashing blue light and siren were affixed to his BMW X6 in an effort to beat a traffic jam in New Kingston.

And in sport,  Jamaica’s Concacaf Nations League B Group C campaign ended on an anticlimactic note on Monday evening at the Montego Bay Sports Complex after the Reggae Boyz were held 1-1 by Guyana.

Watch as OBSERVER ONLINE wraps this week for you.

See story links below:

PNP wants Auditor General audit of RADA Farm Roads Rehabilitation Programme

Farm Roads Rehab Programme controversy

Holness takes swipe at press

MPs want more pay

Tech company takes legal steps against unbothered e-Learning

PM called on to intervene in e-Learning, supplier dispute

Not true

E-Learning Jamaica, supplier of tablets at odds

Target the dirty men

JTA: Don’t allow new teachers to wait four months for first pay cheque

Koffee among 5 nominated for Best Reggae Album Grammy award

Nominees named

JP in trouble over flashing blue light, siren on BMW X6

Man freed in Lauriston murder trial celebrating ‘early Christmas’

‘Too much!’

Boyz held to 1-1 draw by Guyana

Clovis Toons

Concentrate on the inflation rate and not the dollar slide – Holness

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