...Scores stranded
SEVERAL TOURISTS and other travellers had to be transported to the Sangster International Airport by boat while part of the airstrip was opened to accommodate vehicular traffic after throngs of commuters were stranded in downtown Montego.

Kidnapped
Cops rescue elderly man, teens from abductors
AN ELDERLY man and his two teenage children, who were abducted at gunpoint and were on the verge of being executed by members of a prominent drug gang with connections in the United Kingdom, were rescued by a squadron of police, Friday night, in St. Andre

Gleaner breaks silence on textbook project
The following is a statement from the Gleaner Company in response to Government criticism of its handling of the primary schools textbook project.

Deportees struggle to survive
WHILE POLICE investigators have fingered many deportees as the masterminds behind a growing network of criminal gangs and gang-related murders across the island, some of those sent home have complained of finding it hard to start a new life...

Early childhood teachers go back to school
SOME BASIC school teachers have been taking private lessons in main subjects such as English Language in order to meet matriculation requirements of teachers college, and to defuse criticism that they should not be teaching.

Lost in prison system for 28 years - Help coming for Gladstone Ricketts
HELP IS coming for Gladstone Ricketts, the St. Ann man who was lost in prison system for 28 years on a murder charge and who was finally set free on Friday.

School counsellors under pressure
THE NUMBER of traumatised children in Jamaican schools has pushed up the demand for guidance counsellors, putting the few in the system under severe pressure.