Road marches end Carnival 2001

SUNDAY AWOKE reluctantly. Threatening grey clouds pregnant with rain hid the sun. It was an ominous sign for Carnival organisers, Bacchanal Jamaica and Jamaica Carnival, who had spectacular plans to climax the 2001 Carnival season with separate road...

A transformation in Rema

HE KISSED his two-year-old brother goodbye through the new chain link fence and ran towards his classmates to play. It was lunch time at the Boys' Town All-Age School in Rema, St. Andrew, and 10-year-old Chevon Johnson's baby brother had come by to...

Braeton Seven did not surface at Summit
QUEBEC CITY, Canada: DESPITE MOUNTING foreign pressure over last month's killing of seven young men in Braeton, St. Catherine, Jamaica's human rights record did not come up for scrutiny at the Third Summit of the Americas -- the largest hemispheric...

Phillips targets rural roads

THE GOVERNMENT is to spend $147 million to carry out major road work in nine parishes under its deferred payment programme, Transport and Works Minister Dr. Peter Phillips said last Thursday. He made the announcement during a press briefing at his...

Project launched to promote positive sexual behaviours

JAMAICA SHOULD benefit over the next four years from the introduction of several youth-friendly health services to be established across the island. These are to be done under the 'Youth.now' project, a joint effort of the United States Agency for...