Angry residents stone Claremont Police Station - To protest alleged beating of Rastafarian man by cops
CLAREMONT, St. Ann: IRATE RESIDENTS of Coultart Grove, St. Ann, stoned a police station, smashed street lamps and blocked several roads in the area on Wednesday following reports that policemen from the Claremont station had beaten a Rastafarian man.

Clergymen to discuss impact of flexitime on religious standards
MINISTERS OF the clergy are to meet at month-end with the working group appointed by Donald Buchanan, Minister of Labour and Social Security, to discuss the introduction of a flexible work-week. Fourteen clergymen, including Canon Weeville Gordon,...

Businessman gunned down in Kingston arcade
A BUSINESSMAN who police believe was the victim of an on-going extortion racket, was gunned down in a busy vendors' arcade in downtown Kingston yesterday afternoon. He is Mr. Cecil Blackman, 40, of Waterford, St. Catherine.

Soil-borne diseases eat at sugar profits
MARK BROOKS of Richmond Park sugar estate has in recent years been waging a virtual one-man war, trying to convince anyone who would listen that Jamaican sugar cane and several other plants are badly afflicted with soil-borne diseases. On Wednesday, he..