Reform media laws - Gleaner boss warns of disasters waiting to happen
DECLARING THERE are "many serious media disasters waiting to happen", Oliver Clarke, the chairman and managing director of The Gleaner Company Ltd. yesterday called for freedom of the press to be included in the Jamaican Constitution...
Schools to 'log on' free
CABLE AND Wireless (C&W) Jamaica President Gary Barrow yesterday announced a programme that will give primary and secondary schools free Internet access for the next three years through the HEART/NTA programme. The initiative will cost between $5...
'Psychic' Safa found dead
THE BODY of 28-year-old Safa Asontuwa, a self-proclaimed psychic, was found in a gully off the main road leading to Cavaliers, St. Andrew, yesterday afternoon. According to the police, Safa had been missing from his residence in Mount Joy, Old Stony...
Accident claims two on Old Harbour main road
JERMAINE COUSIN'S death in a traffic accident in Old Harbour on Monday has cast a pall of gloom over the St. Catherine High School. Yesterday, many teachers and students were apparently unable to come to grips with the fact that the youngster they saw...
Trains unlikely to roll - Gov't unable to meet 2002 deadline
THE GOVERNMENT is unlikely to meet this year's deadline for the resumption of rail service. The National Investment Bank of Jamaica (NIBJ), which is conducting negotiations on its behalf, said it was having problems...
Low turnout of churches for electoral body's meeting
A FUNCTION SPECIFICALLY aimed at getting the Christian community involved in the electoral process, ahead of the upcoming general election, did not go as planned yesterday. Only 10 of 120 church leaders invited...
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