More Centres of Excellence coming
THE MINISTRY of Education, Youth and Culture has collaborated with HEART/NTA, to implement a technical vocation rationalisation project, through which Centres of Excellence are established at high schools. The cost of the project is $70 million. This...

SSP Adams concludes testimony
SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT of Police, Reneto Adams concluded his testimony at yesterday's 92nd day of sittings of the Coroner's Inquest into the killing of seven young men in Braeton, St. Catherine last year. Under cross-examination by police, defence...

On Zimbabwe and Emancipation
AFTER READING the letter in today's Gleaner (August 16) by R. Anthony Lewis concerning your August 10, 2002 editorial on the Zimbabwean government's land seizure/distribution policy, perhaps another dimension to that at...

Dynamite found in prison - Warder arrested for ganja
Warder arrested for ganja WARDERS AT the St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre found 60 sticks of dynamite during a search of the prison yesterday. At the same time one of their colleagues was found with 55 sticks of ganja.

PNP blasts Seaga at party conference
WALDERSTON, Manchester: A LARGE turnout of flag-waving, orange-clad supporters of the People's National Party (PNP) converged on the compound of the Christiana High School on Sunday, August 18, to attend the annual conference of the North East...

Horror murder in Islington - Elderly couple gunned down - Fifth double murder in 19 days
PORT MARIA, St. Mary: THE ST. Mary police are investigating their second double murder in three weeks after the bodies of 65-year-old Mavis Grant and her 70-year-old husband, Benjamin, both of Quebec, Islington, were discovered at their home yesterday...

PM tours Harlem, New York
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson toured Harlem last week as part of activities by members of the Jamaican community to mark the 49th anniversary of the country's Independence. Mr. Patterson's first stop was the world famous Apollo Theatre where he was...