Farming woes - Southfield cultivators make urgent appeal for help
WESTERN BUREAU: FARMERS IN Southfield, south west St. Elizabeth, are calling on the Government for emergency assistance. They say they need an urgent supply of seeds and poultry and livestock, including chickens, turkeys and pigs, to start over ...
Tropical Storm Earl rakes eastern Caribbean
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP): TROPICAL STORM Earl unleashed heavy rains and violent winds that felled trees and ripped off roofs yesterday in the eastern Caribbean, while hundreds of people sought refuge in shelters.
J'can is DA for county in Georgia
JEWEL HANSON Scott, a Jamaican attorney-at-law, is the new District Attorney for Clayton County, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Violence flares again in Spanish Town
THE RESURGENCE of gang violence in Spanish Town, central St. Catherine, claimed the life of a watchman yesterday morning, pushing to 12, the number of murders committed in the Old Capital in the last four days.
JTA conference opens today
THE 40TH annual conference of the Jamaica Teachers' Association begins this morning at the Renaissance Jamaica Grande Hotel, Main Street, Ocho Rios, St. Ann.
J'can woman dies of mad cow disease variant
CHARLENE SINGH, who in late 2002 was diagnosed with the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a variant of the dreaded mad cow disease, died in the United States on June 20 after a tortuous three-year battle with the disease.
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