Norman Horne to replace McKenzie in the Senate
VICE-PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) professional wing, Generation 2000 (G2K), Norman Horne, is to be appointed to the Senate to replace Kingston's Mayor Desmond McKenzie.

Teacher migration blamed for poor CXC performance
FINGERPOINTING HAS begun in earnest in the education sector, following reports that the country's candidates had anaemic performances in the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) examinations for 2003, especially in key subject areas such as mathematics...

MoBay family bombed - Blaze leaves 17 homeless
WESTERN BUREAU: HOME-MADE BOMBS, thrown by unknown assailants, destroyed a five bedroom dwelling house in Mt. Salem, Montego Bay, St. James, early yesterday morning, leaving a family of 17 homeless and over $1.5 million in damage.

GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S ACHIEVEMENT AWARDEE FOR ST. ANN - Surviving the battle, gaining the reward
IN 1946, at the age of seven, N. Carlton Mullings survived a two-year battle with malaria - a disease that killed more than 20 other children in his Mountainside community of St. Elizabeth.

Ministry says book distribution on track
THE MINISTRY of Education, Youth and Culture says overseas company, Von Hoffmann Corporation, is ahead of schedule in providing textbooks for local primary schools.

Schools face shutdown - Private centres urged to regularise operations
AT LEAST two of the more than 50 independent schools operating without registering with the Ministry of Education could be shutdown by the Ministry, if they fail to honour notices of complaints currently being prepared against them.

Missing policeman's torso believed found
A TORSO, WHICH the police believe is that of their missing colleague, Detective Constable Devon Pearson, was discovered yesterday on the banks of the Rio Cobre near the Jam World Entertainment Centre in Portmore, St. Catherine.