Principals Assn calls for protection from vendors
THE TRELAWNY Principals Association is urging the Ministry of Education to take steps to prevent any recurrence elsewhere of the attack by vendors on the principal of the St. Ann's Bay Primary School, Rupert Brown.

New CEO appointed at May Pen Hospital
LAVERN PALMER, operations manager at the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester, will become the new chief executive officer (CEO) at the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon.

Motorist on dangerous driving rap granted bail
CLARENDON: THE DRIVER of the Leyland truck that was involved in a motor vehicle accident on the Tollgate main road which killed four people has been granted bail at $400,000 and is to return to court on January 30.

G2K youth leader appeals for new economic model
WARREN NEWBY, president of the Mona Campus Youth League, a Generation 2000 (G2K) action group, has called on Dr. Omar Davies, the Minister of Finance and Planning, to implement a short-term, debt-restructuring mechanism as part of a new development plan.

NWA repairs St Catherine roadways
LINSTEAD, St. Catherine: OVER 11 roads in North West St. Catherine have now been repaired under the Government's Rural Road Improvement Programme.

Hotels want level field with cruise ship sector
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: CARIBBEAN HOTELIERS and several land-based tourism entities are again calling on the Governments of the region to level the playing field between themselves and the cruise ship industry.

Rehabilitation key to crime reduction, says Phillips
NATIONAL SECURITY Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips, yesterday pointed to the increased focus on rehabilitation in the island's correctional facilities as one of the steps that were critical to the reduction of crime in the society.

Redwood gets nod for Local Gov't race
ST. ELIZABETH: CHAIRMAN OF the People's National Party (PNP) Region Five and Minister of Water and Housing, Donald Buchanan, has confirmed that the party has chosen the Reverend Stanley Redwood to be its candidate for the Ipswich division...