Gleaner, The (Newspaper) - December 4, 1993, Kingston, Kingston Still best r meat L 1834 VOLUME CUX KINGSTON JAMAICA SATURDAY DECEMBER 4 1993 34 PAGES Any way you prepare it they'll all want to share it as long as it's j has pasted the September quarterly aet by the International Monetary Davies sworn in Finance Minister Dr Omar Davies announced this yesterday in his first press briefing as nance Minister at his Ministry in Kingston He said the island been successful in all aspects of the test including the Net International Reserves the Net Domestic Assets and those re- lated to the fiscal budget Dr Davies stressed the island's economic programme was on track pointing tip the Net International Reserves for September which had improved to minus million and was ahead of schedule The new Finance M mster ihl Ire IK the Board of die IMF on E bcr 17 concerning the economic targets for O tober 1993 to December 1994 Prime Minister son has pledged to make the 7 current maica and the IMF the last one Looking at the island's tion rate Dr Davies said it was on the decline and by the end of the current fiscal year should be down to one per cent per of inflation he said dropped from 4.2 per cent in September to 2.4 per cent in October Dr Davies said the inflation rate from October 1992 to tober stood at 24.9 per cent compared with 60.1 per cent for the similar period of October 1991 to October 1992 stands at 22.6 against 37.7 per cent for the period last year He pointed to the continued depreciation of the value of the Jamaican dollar as the major factor which fuelled the rate of inflation for October In the last four months the dollar by 19.4 per cent Dr Davies said linking this to the inflation rate for the period which was 14.9 per cent that the main ob- of the Government was reduce inflation Dr Davies said the aim was to reach the rate of inflation enjoyed by the ITS NOW OFFICIAL Dr Omar Davies who has been out the duties of Minister of Finance since June was sworn into office at a brief King's House ceremony day In the ceremony presided over by Sir Howard Cookc Mr Hartley Bobby Jones was in as a Senator and Minister of State in the Ministry of Public Utilities Mining and Energy Sir Howard urged the new Finance Minister to remember that when much is given to much is He a SWEARING IN: New Finance Minister Dr Omar Davies left and the Minister of State Fn the Ministry of Public Utilities Brown photo Mining and Energy Senator Hartley Bobby Jones take the oath of office during a swearing in ceremony at King's House yesterday discouraged by criticisms noting that whenever one is in the public gaze you become a target but once you are serving according to your conscience you must press on In his comments Prime ister Patterson thanked Mr Jones for volunteering to move upstairs so that Dr Davies could be elected to the House of Representatives and so open the way for him to become Minister Noting that the press had portrayed Dr as a cal innocent the Prime Minister declared that Dr Davies had paid his political dues and was not as ignorant of political ters as thought by many He that be an outstanding ber of Parliament and Minister of Finance In his reply Dr Davies said he faced a task of awesome He promised that he would tackle the job with vigour and that he would do the job as Member of Parliament like any other task to the best of my island's major trading partners in the next fiscal year the money hence the Government would be monetary policy would a tightening of liquidity which another objective was to reduce Robinson as by COLIN BLAIR Gleaner Staff Reporter SIX WEEKS after The Gleaner reported problems between Secretary Heather Robinson and her boss Minister of Local Government Youth and Sport John Junor she has resigned her post She is to take up duties at the People's National Party PNP headquarters The announcement was made by Prime Minister Patterson yesterday at the swearing in emony for Finance Minister Dr Supplement The 10th anniversary supplement of Bearings and Seals appears with this edition of The Gleaner Omar Davies and State Minister in Public Utilities Mining and Energy Hartley Bobby Jones at King's House In a terse statement the Prime Minister said Miss son will take up special ments at the Party's head of- fice He said Miss Robinson had asked to be assigned to the ty's headquarters Prefacing his announcement with statements on the need for a strong Party in order to have a strong government Mr son said Miss Robinson's ture to carry out special duties for the Party should be seen in A government has to be ported by a vibrant party cal Mr Patterson said Sir ard Cooke expressed surprise at Miss Robinson's sudden ture from the nry of Local old Sport According to Party sources Miss Robinson and Mr Junor were not hitting it A Gleaner report on October 25 said Miss Robinson and Mr Junor were at odds It quoted Party sources as saying that Miss Robinson may be transferred to party headquarters as a way of dealing In the Gleaner report Miss Robinson denied that any ences existed between herself and Mr Junor and the Minister declared it's an absolute Party Chairman Bobby yesterday denied that there was any animosity between the former Parliamentary tary and Minister Junor No such he stated cally adding there is nothing sinister going Mr Pickersgill insisted that Miss Robinson had been trans- ferred to do party work He said Miss Robinson was a very rious party worker whose ties and experiences in tional party work was well established Mr said Miss inson had been an excellent Secretary and had made a brilliant contribution in the last Budget Debate er the Government was inter- ested in strengthening the party hence Miss Robinson's move to party headquarters The party machinery has to be kept he stressed ing anytime an administration forgets how it reaches in power it is in trouble You cannot glect the party f- MIKE FEN NELL President of Air Jamaica Ltd will know his on day t hje brought against nim by the Industrial Trade Union which is seeking to have him jailed for breaches of an undertaking the company gave in the Supreme Court Yesterday son on a pre- liminary point taken by He down hit i on Monday Q.C of the law firm Myers Fletcher and When the hearing resumed don who represents Fennell is yesterday Priya Levers who mitul on the ground that there is no provision in Jamaican law to order committal for ence of a court order Air Jamaica Ltd through iti lawyers had given an ing not to employ flight attendants until the dis- pute between the company and the BITU nent flight heard by the Full Coun by Mr Justice Chester Orr Puisne judge regarding Air Jamaica were most unfortunate because Air Jamaica was not a party to the proceeding before him and therefore could not be regarded a ruling Mr Orr had a mutter of concern that a company like Air Jamaica had ft Tf Is 7 a y -y flouted the order The union had asked the court to tend Joan Birch director of administration to prison for breaching the un- but the judge found that he was not liable for the breach Frank Q.C Dawn Satterswaite are the union Steve tun with Mr Gofle COUNT YOUR PUBLIC k Alt CONST ANT FOOD SPECIALS FRESH HEATS FRESH FRUITS PHI WINE LIQUOR WAS NOW GROCERIES WAS NOW 17.35 TI M 3722 35.45 36.90 4754 J Wo II ho SUNDAYS to PUBLIC SUPERMARKET Tasfe the ml resh appeal Lid
