Children's home report measures carry big bill
IT WILL cost Government some $800 million to implement recommendations from a report which showed that it had failed to adequately monitor and supervise the island's children's homes and places of safety.

Rastas reiterate repatriation calls
THE MONA campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) was ablaze with colour yesterday, as Ras Tafari Global Reasoning 2003 opened at the undercroft under the theme 'Ras Tafari family united for progress and development'.

Legal light for inner city - Gov't moves to regularise electricity connections
PHILLIP PAULWELL, Commerce, Science and Technology Minister, yesterday unveiled a new $20 million programme to reduce illegal electricity connections in the inner city.

Central Kgn fire leaves over 50 homeless
DONNA LAWRENCE and her seven children escaped death yesterday morning when fire razed the tenement yard on Regent Street, Allman Town, central Kingston, where they had been living for the last five years.

Cops detain more suspects in Tinson Pen saga
THE POLICE said they held yesterday, three suspects who they believe to be members of a drug-smuggling ring which was involved in Sunday's shoot-out with narcotics police at the Tinson Pen Aerodrome, Kingston.

Amos calls for tougher bail policy in the courts
WESTERN BUREAU: SUPT. NEWTON Amos, head of the St. James Police Division, says the granting of bail to persons facing serious charges is contributory to the recent upsurge in murders in the parish.

Redundancies at NWC set for August
THE NATIONAL Water Commission said yesterday that the long announced redundancies arising from last year's KPMG Peat Marwick audit are to be implemented starting in August.