Rolling the dice
'Casino gambling would provide billions for education'
DR. RALPH Thompson, a member of the National Council on Education, said yesterday that the introduction of casino gambling would be the answer to funding the $52 billion per year needed to transform the education system over the next 10 years.
Highway toll road opens
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson yesterday made it clear that motorists will have to pay to use Highway 2000, and he will not tolerate any threats to stall the construction of the toll road.
PM continues to wait for DPP report
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson will have to wait another month before a report from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), on the activities of his office, is delivered to Parliament.
Multimillion-dollar police, health facility for Grants Pen
GROUND WAS broken yesterday for the construction of a multimillion-dollar community police and health facility at Grants Pen, Kingston 8, with completion set for late July, 2005.
Gov't to review cost-sharing proposal
PARENTS MAY have to continue paying for their children's education as recommended by the Task Force on Education, despite the government's announcements that free education would be phased in by 2005.
Deputy Commissioner Owen Clunie resigns
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER of Police Owen Clunie, the colourful and highly decorated officer who had a long-running legal battle with the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), announced his retirement yesterday from the police force, with immediate effect.
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