Strike at power company - Some North American Energy Services workers protest wage offer
SOME CATEGORIES of unionised employees at the North American Energy Services (Jamaica) Limited (Dr. Bird) plant in Old Harbour went on strike yesterday morning, but their protest is unlikely to affect normal power generation.

GG's Achievement Award winner - Etla Sawyers - Community involvement extends far and wide

WESTERN BUREAU: ETLA JOSEPHINE Sawyers has worked for 29 unbroken years in the health sector as mentor, counsellor, and adviser and yet has not grown weary.

Carib community in NY unites
NEW YORK: THE ENTIRE Caribbean Community is bonding in the face of the disaster that rocked New York City last week. Everyone is sharing information and trying to assist as much as possible.

World Alive Mission returns to Jamaica ...to run free clinics islandwide
JAMAICANS STAND to benefit from a medical clinic and spiritual outreach of the Daughters of Rizpah's World Alive evangelistic ministry based in Brooklyn, New York, through a one-week crusade between October 13 and 20, 2001. Since 1997 this...

Will the region decide the next election? - Where the west goes, the rest goes
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CAMPAIGN leading up to the next general election, constitutionally due in 2002, has begun in earnest with the two main political parties holding meetings in the critical battle ground county of Cornwall...