JTA to choose president-elect
THE 22,000 members of the Jamaica Teachers' Association are expected to decide this week who will become the next president-elect of their union. Educators, among them full-time and retired members of the association, will vote for the candidate of...

Justice writes - Autopsies in Jamaica
AN AUTOPSY is the same as a post mortem examination, which is a medical check of a dead body performed in order to ascertain cause of death. There are very strict and clear protocols on how to perform an autopsy, especially in cases that might involve...

Students to benefit from summer programme
SOME 6,000 fourth and fifth form students will, as of July 1, this year, start earning $2,500 each in a four-day summer week programme set to run for a month, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has announced. The Prime Minister had first disclosed the...

Repair costs mount as Blue Mountain road ignored
MORANT BAY, St. Thomas: THE ROAD at Penline Castle which serves coffee farmers in the Blue Mountains continues to deteriorate and will require about $100m for repairs, according to deliberations at the monthly St. Thomas Parish Council meeting last...