Coaches pull plug on early start
CHARGING THEY were being treated with little or no respect by the organisers, coaches pulled the plug on an early start to yesterday's third and penultimate day of the 2004 VMBS Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships.

JLP leadership squabbles to be addressed - Golding
BRUCE GOLDING, chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has said that the organisation would soon be moving to address its leadership squabbles. He was addressing party supporters at a joint conference of the Llandewey and Yallahs parish council...

Schools enviro programme in danger of closing
THE JAMAICA Environmental Trust's (JET), Schools Environmental Programme (SEP) is in danger of being discontinued because of a lack of funds. The seven-year-old programme is the largest of its kind and involves 353 primary and high schools islandwide.

Training for air marshals could start next month
THE MINISTRY of Transport is currently in talks with local and overseas agencies to have training started for airline marshals to guard against airborne terrorist attacks.

Two killed in Allman Town
WHILE SOME residents of Central Kingston have united in the gesture towards peace in their communities, the bloodletting has continued in sections of the constituency, claiming two more lives between Thursday night and yesterday morning.

Tree crushes seven-year-old girl
WESTERN BUREAU: A SEVEN-YEAR female student of the Glendevon Primary and Junior High School in St. James, was killed at her home yesterday morning when an old coconut tree, which was being used to support a clothes line, fell on her, crushing her head.