Male Brigade applicants burn under exam fire - Women outdo men 4:1 on Fire Brigade's entrance test despite lowering of passing grade
DESPITE A lowering of the passing grade on its entrance test to accommodate more male applicants, the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) is still barely able to recruit sufficiently qualified male candidates to fill vacant firefighter posts.

Teachers' scholarships go begging
THE MINISTRY of Education is finding few takers for its slate of scholarships for teachers to do undergraduate studies at the University of the West Indies in specialist Mathematics and Science subjects.

Alecia Kerr still missing after two months
SINCE JUNE 20, the lives of Donald and Beverly Kerr have been turned upside down and it has been sheer hell, since their daughter, Alecia, disappeared after leaving home for school earlier that day. The wait to find out what has become of their...

Failed crime plan, what's new?
THE ISSUE of crime took up much of the news last week but there were two particularly disturbing items out of that plethora of crime news ­ the police admitting yet another failure to get a grip on crime and that gangs are forming more organised...

'Naturally beautiful' - The residence of the German Ambassador
GERMAN AMBASSADOR to Jamaica, Christian Hausmann, and his wife Harriet Huber, are absolutely at home in the tropics. He has been assigned to serve another term as ambassador and so their lives continue to be punctuated each day with the unique beauty...

A simmering cauldron in Spanish Town
THERE ARE many tales and many sides to the same story, but all players agree that St. Catherine's inner-city areas nurture a delicate peace and an unpredictable relationship with the police.