Classes resume at Palmer's Cross, under police guard

SPALDINGS, Clarendon: THE MAY Pen police turned up at the Palmer's Cross Primary and Junior High School in Clarendon yesterday, to ensure that parents and students did not carry out a threat to disrupt classes for the second consecutive week.

BRAETON SHOOTINGS - Support group accepts pace of investigation
AT LEAST ONE of the nine organisations which last month called on Government to begin a Coroner's inquest into the Braeton shootings by May 7, says it is reasonably satisfied with authorities' progress in the..

FIRE VICTIMS - Shelter the biggest problem
THE TRAGEDY of 135 people left homeless by a large fire that destroyed the eight houses they occupied in Denham Town last Friday has been made worse by controversy over whose responsibility it is to provide initial and direct relief.

Shipping industry leaders comment on flexi-week
AS PART of the Government's thrust to reform the labour market, a flexible-work week arrangement is being proposed. Under this system workers will be required to work 40 hours over seven days instead of five days. Saturday and Sunday will be treated as...

VOUCH: Caring for Ja's children
VOUCH, THE Voluntary Organisation For The Upliftment Of Children ­ came into being in 1979 when two children's organisations, the Child Welfare Association and the Jamaica Children's Service Society, merged to form a single entity. The Child...