Dispute in DPP's office heats up
THE DISPUTE between senior prosecutors and Kent Pantry, Q.C., Director of Public Prosecutions, over his decision last week to revert a junior prosecutor to her substantive post as Clerk of the Courts, is far from...

Probe under way into foiled escape plot at GP
AN INVESTIGATION is under way to determine how prisoners at the General Penitentiary, Tower Street, central Kingston, came to have had dynamite which they used in an abortive bid to escape from the prison on Saturday. Kern Spencer, Parliamentary...

Education Week begins
TODAY MARKS the beginning of 'Education Week', and Paul Adams, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association, is calling on the various stakeholders in the education system to focus more on issues that will result...

Ex-JDF officer fined for fraud
DENNIS DALEY, a former JDF captain, has been fined $100,000 or six months' imprisonment for fraudulent conversion of $3,547,000 which the military gave him to buy 20,000 yards of khaki polyester for uniforms for its troops. Daley, who was defended by...

'Tourism money not enough'
EDWARD SEAGA, leader of the JLP, on Saturday chastised the Government for what, he said, was its failure to respond quickly to "an impending crisis facing the tourism sector". Mr. Seaga, who was guest speaker at a fund-raising dinner...