The Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) has wel­comed and sup­port­ed the pro­posed amend­ments to the Re­trench­ment and Sev­er­ance Ben­e­fits Act (RS­BA), say­ing the changes ad­vance a long-stand­ing work­ers’ agen­da.

Na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Bank Ja­maica Ltd (NCBJ) is un­der­go­ing an­oth­er lead­er­ship tran­si­tion with Bruce Bowen sched­uled to demit of­fice as CEO at the end of Feb­ru­ary, mark­ing the lat­est ex­ec­u­tive shift with­in the NCB Fi­nan­cial Group Ltd (NCBFG) struc­ture.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons San Juan South Sec­ondary cruised in­to the semi­fi­nals of the T&T Sec­ondary Schools Vol­ley­ball League (SSVL) Boys Un­der-19 Di­vi­sion af­ter top­ping their Group A round-robin qual­i­fiers at the Aranguez North Sec­ondary Schools on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 18).

We are gen­er­al­ly a very laid-back peo­ple. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, this par­tic­u­lar trait isn’t al­ways as wel­comed as we would like it to be. Gen­er­al­ly, as our his­to­ry would show, very lit­tle riles us up enough to ac­tive­ly at­tempt to ef­fect change or de­mand bet­ter. This laid-back ap­proach isn’t re­served on­ly for mat­ters of na­tion­al con­cern, but lends it­self to var­i­ous as­pects of our pri­vate lives. We adopt this ap­proach to busi­ness trans­ac­tions, mat­ters of health and oth­er per­son­al is­sues that may re­quire more than a nod of the head and a state­ment brush­ing off the is­sue as to­mor­row’s prob­lem.