More independent schools register with Education Ministry
THE NUMBER of independent or privately owned schools that are registering with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture has increased.

Smoother rides for Clarendon road users
SPALDINGS, Clarendon: AFTER MORE than 40 years of having to cope with deplorable road conditions, several users of the Zinc Shop to Santa Hill road near Spaldings in North West Clarendon are now enjoying smoother rides.

A-G off to CARICOM Legal Affairs meeting
ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Minister of Justice, A.J. Nicholson left the island yesterday for St. Vincent and the Grenadines to attend meetings of the CARICOM Legal Affairs Committee and Commonwealth Law Ministers.

Salute to a giant Attorney Richard Ashenheim retires from a noble career
RETIREMENT IS well deserved for some and few could dispute that Director Emeritus of The Gleaner Company Richard Ashenheim has earned his.

Waste authority to boost lagging garbage collection
THE NATIONAL Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) will be rehabilitating waste compactors over the next four to five weeks in order to boost lagging garbage collection by mid-December 2002.

Soldier's gun found
THE POLICE have recovered the gun stolen from Corporal Hugh Thomas of the Jamaica Defence Force, who was shot dead by a gunman on Monday night in Allman Town, Kingston 4.

$150,000 bail set for JUTC insp.
BAIL HAS been set at $150,000 for Patrick Johnson, a Jamaica Urban Transit Co. inspector, who has been charged with vehicular manslaughter following the death on Friday of a National Transport Co-operative Society bus conductor known only as "Mickey". ...

Jamaican held for coke in UK
THREE KILOGRAMS of cocaine worth an estimated £200,000 (J$15.6 million) was seized by Customs officers at Manchester Airport from a Jamaican man on Saturday, November 9, according to Her Majesty's Customs and Excise (HMCE).