Fungus threatens agriculture
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS said yesterday that the sector, already devastated by Hurricane Ivan, could be further weakened by fungus affecting plants, if priority is not given to technical research and disease prevention in the current...
UWI students want new payment deadline
UNIVERSITY OF the West Indies (UWI) students yesterday said the institution's decision to deregister and expel over 4,000 of them for non-payment of tuition is unreasonable.
Help coming for mentally challenged prison inmates
THE GOVERNMENT will be bringing legislation to Parliament within the next six months in an attempt to put a stop to the wide scale disappearance of mentally challenged inmates within the prison system, according to Minister of...
18-year-old murder accused get bail
TWO FORMER schoolboys from the Old Harbour High School, St. Catherine, charged with the murder of a schoolmate on March 4 last year, appeared in the Home Circuit Court yesterday. They were each offered bail to return to court on October 15. The boys,...
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