DPP studying police 'coke-guard' file
THE DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has begun reviewing statements implicating a top-echelon police officer and a Superintendent, and several others of junior rank, in an operation in which they allegedly provided security for the safe transfer of..

Anti-extortion hotline coming
A CENTRAL location is to be established by the police to receive information on the extortion racket said to be driving many Corporate Area businesses to the brink of bankruptcy. Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, in an address to the nation last night to...

Hotel to be skills training centre
WHITE HORSES, St. Thomas: THE FORMER Bailey's Beach Hotel in Yallahs is to transformed into a hospitality training facility to provide a variety of skills training programmes.

St 'Bess' focuses on tourism education
ST. ELIZABETH: INTEREST IN the development of tourism on the south coast is again on the frontburner, with industry players emphasising that educating the region's young people, among other factors, will be important to its development.

Crime concerns more businessmen
ST. CATHERINE: THE ST. CATHERINE Chamber of Commerce has joined the call for immediate and decisive action to reduce the high level of crime and violence in the island.