Libraries cut off from on-line information
Several libraries in Jamaica are cut off from the rest of the world because they do not have a telephone line or a computer to facilitate access to the Internet.

Playfair lecture launched

The Fair Trading Commission (FTC) yesterday held the first in a series of lectures in honour of its former chairman and prominent attorney, Shirley Playfair, who was killed at her office earlier this year.

Overstaffing blamed on frightened fleeing students
Twelve schools in Kingston and St. Andrew's violent inner cities account for nearly 50% of the overstaffing in the teaching profession but this is due to a loss of students who flee to schools in less volatile communities.