Gleaner prices increase
THE GLEANER Company Ltd. will be adjusting the cover prices of its publications due to the imposition of General Consumption Tax (GCT) on newspapers. This increase is also due to rising production costs as a result of the depreciation in the value of...

Police give protection from the elements
WESTERN BUREAU: JUST LAST week, former school teacher, 52-year-old Maureen Wright, of Seaton Crescent, in Savanna-la-Mar, was living in a house that did not spare her from the elements. The wooden structure was simply falling apart.

Exciting end for Courtesy Week
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CURTAIN will come down on the Westmoreland and Hanover legs of the Police Courtesy Week, which are being staged simultaneously, with two events of contrasting natures in both parishes.

Rastas trounce cops in football friendly
WESTERN BUREAU: WILD CELEBRATIONS erupted in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Thursday afternoon as the town's Rasta team, dubbed 'Jah Army', scored an emphatic 7-0 against the parish's police team in their exhibition Police Courtesy Week football game...

Murderer escapes hangman's noose
A 25-YEAR-old man who robbed and stabbed to death an 18-year-old student five years ago, has escaped the hangman's noose because of his alleged statement to the police that he did not mean to cut the deceased.