Highway 2000 splits community - Life not the same for residents of Sharper Lane, Old Harbour
FOR DRIVERS streaking along at 110 kilometres per hour along the first completed section of Highway 2000, it may be a motorist's dream, with none of the congestion and irritating intersections to break their progress.

EAC rejects call for overseas voting
THE ELECTORAL Advisory of Committee (EAC) has rejected a call for Jamaicans living overseas to be allowed to vote in local elections.

Auditor-General called in at St James Parish Council
WESTERN BUREAU: AS ALLEGATIONS of corruption continue to swirl around the St. James Parish Council, the Auditor-General has been asked by the Local Government Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, to probe the local authority's books.

Machete-wielders invade school
WESTERN BUREAU: TEACHERS AND students at the Petersfield High School in Westmoreland are still in shock after six machete-wielding men invaded the school premises on Tuesday afternoon, attacked and wounded two male students.

Terrorism Act: No hidden agenda - PM
THE GOVERNMENT has given itself a deadline of March 2004 to have the controversial Terrorism Prevention Act passed in Parliament, a target it says it must meet to avoid being censured by the United Nations (UN) as ill-prepared...