Six die in crash
GRIEF GRIPPED the community of Kent Village in Bog Walk, St. Catherine, yesterday where six people were killed in a motor vehicle accident in the wee hours of the morning.

Some public hospitals out of blood
DR. LUNDIE Richards, director of the National Blood Transfusion Service (Blood Bank), said yesterday that three of the island's public hospitals ­ Mandeville, May Pen, and Percy Junor in Spaldings ­ ran out of blood supplies...

Code of conduct for gasolene trade signed
A LONG-AWAITED code of conduct for gasolene retailers and marketing companies took effect Monday without the two groups signing on to the provisions which have been established by the Fair Trading Commission (FTC). Phillip Paulwell, minister of...

Deborah Douglas cops Bustamante scholarship
THE BUSTAMANTE Foundation has announced that Miss Deborah Roxanne Douglas has been awarded the 2004 Bustamante Scholarship. Miss Douglas was selected from over 40 qualified applicants. She is a second year student in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at...

1-month deadline extension for JPS unlikely - OUR
THE OFFICE of Utilities Regulation (OUR) is unlikely to approve a nearly one month extension request by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) on the deadline for the submission of information on its billing system. "They (JPS) might get some time...

One of three convicted of Sylvia Edwards murder freed
ONE OF the three men who were given stiff prison sentences after they were convicted last year of the murder of 48-year-old gas station operator Sylvia Edwards, was yesterday freed by the Court of Appeal while a retrial was ordered for...

Cop urges motorists to exercise greater care
SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT Ealan Powell, head of the island's Police Traffic Division, yesterday urged motorists to exercise greater caution on the roads during the Yuletide season.