Public education initiative to help combat second-hand smoke
DESPITE COMPILING and showing evidence of tobacco's harmful health effects, the Ministry of Health says efforts to implement a smoke-free environment locally are often being hampered by a lack of public awareness of the dangers of smoking and second-hand.

Shaw recuperating after surgery at UHWI
JAMAICA LABOUR Party (JLP) Deputy Leader and Member of Parliament, Audley Shaw should be out of hospital by early next week. Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday his wife, Maureen, confirmed that Mr. Shaw had been transferred from the Percy Junor...

Flood waters still rising in Manchester, St Elizabeth
THE OFFICE of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), has warned that scores of residents in St. Elizabeth and Manchester remain at risk from rising flood waters, the effect of heavy rains early this year. ODPEM, in a statement issued...

Man held for assisting prisoners' escape
DESPITE HIS pleas of innocence, Paul Johnson also called 'Day-deh' of Green Island in Hanover, was remanded in custody when he made his first appearance in the Sandy Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursday morning. Johnson is alleged to have...