KSAC offers alternatives to Jubilee market vendors
ESTIMATES OF the damage to the razed Victoria Jubilee Market, West Queen Street and West Parade, downtown Kingston, has been put at $20 million, excluding the costs to individual vendors, the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation said.

Publishing industry calls for review of new taxes
REPRESENTATIVES OF Jamaica's publishing industry warned yesterday that the new tax measures proposed by the Government, would increase the price of reading material and be detrimental to the advancement of literacy.

New NHT changes
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson announced yesterday that as from May 1, the National Housing Trust (NHT) will implement the following changes to its housing and loan policy to benefit its contributors...

Cops suspended after prisoner escapes
BLACK RIVER, St. Elizabeth: POLICE COMMISSIONER Francis Forbes has ordered the suspension of three policemen who were detailed to guard a high-risk prisoner who escaped Monday afternoon from the Black River Hospital, St. Elizabeth, sources told The Gleane

Met Service explains the solar halo
NUMEROUS CALLS poured into The Gleaner's newsroom yesterday from puzzled Jamaicans who were seeking an explanation for a halo-like ring of light which surrounded the sun for much of the morning.