Flood grant assessment winds down
THE MINISTRY of Labour and Social Security has assessed nearly all of the persons registered for flood grants and is still processing those displaced by October's tropical storms, Lili and Isidore.

New legislation to protect J'can plants
WESTERN BUREAU: AS THE international trade in medicinal plants grows in volume and value, new legislation is coming to protect Jamaican plants and their medicinal properties from being plundered by foreign entities...

Prime Ministers honoured
THE LAWNS of Kings House in Kingston came alive Wednesday, as scores of political colleagues, family and friends of Jamaica's current and former Prime Ministers turned out to see them being conferred with the nation's second highest national honour...

Cost of production worries sugar industry says Ambassador Heaven
AS THE sugar industry prepares for the start of the 2002/2003 crop on Saturday, the cost of production has become the main point of concern for both the employers and the workers.

Probe of DPP's office begins next week
THE PROBE of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is expected to start as early as next week and the Public Service Commission (PSC) is desirous of getting the report before year end.

Gunmen kill JBS employee
THE MURDER Wednesday night of an employee of the Jamaica Bureau of Standards (JBS), 6 Winchester Road, Kingston 10, plunged the bureau into mourning yesterday.

British couple slain
A YOUNG British couple were found murdered and their bodies dumped in the Waugh Hill area of Sligoville, St. Catherine, on Tuesday. The police identified them as Tamaline Bundy-Davis, 17, and her 29-year-old Jamaican husband, Jermaine Davis.

Ammar blasts KSAC
MICHAEL AMMAR, Jr., Jamaica Chamber of Commerce president, blasted the KSAC yesterday for failing to move vendors from no-vending areas in downtown Kingston.