Security beefed up for CARICOM
WESTERN BUREAU: TO GUARANTEE a tight and fool-proof security arrangement for the CARICOM Summit in Montego Bay, the manpower and equipment capabilities of the 590 police personnel in St. James are being augmented as of today.

No court until Gov't meets with us - prosecutors
PROSECUTORS IN the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will continue their industrial action until Government officials meet with them and give an undertaking...

Positive vibrations Mbeki, Rastas promise to work together
MAKING GOOD on a promise he made on Monday, President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki yesterday met with Rastafarians from 13 different groups to hear their various concerns.

'Straight A' student sits exams behind jail bars
BLACK RIVER: A 17-year-old student did his CXC and SSC (Secondary School Certificate) exams while in jail at the Black River police station, last week, after being remanded in custody on pleading guilty to two counts of unlawful wounding.

JLP to contest Springmount results in court
WESTERN BUREAU: THE RESULT of the magisterial recount in the Local Government election for the Springmount Division in St. James is heading to the Supreme Court after it was questioned yesterday by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).

...PM declines to intervene
OCHO RIOS PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson yesterday declined to intervene in the impasse between Director of Public Prosecutions Kent Pantry Q.C., and the staff at his office.