Gleaner, RJR in new alliance
RADIO JAMAICA Ltd. yesterday entered the print media when it signed an agreement with The Gleaner Company's United Kingdom operations to acquire 20 per cent of the UK business.

Fire leaves 30 homeless
FIRE YESTERDAY morning gutted two tenement yards in central Kingston, leaving 30 persons homeless. Damage was estimated at $4.5 million.

UWI banks on Gov't
THE MONA campus at the University of the West Indies is pinning its hopes on the Government to skilfully re-negotiate a 1995 General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) to save the institution from financial hardship.

PM speaks on budget debate today
PRIME MINISTER P. J. Patterson will make his contribution to the 2005/2006 Budget Debate today. One of the areas which Mr. Patterson is expected to address is the vexed issue of cost sharing.

Act delays death row sentencing
THE SENTENCING of 40 murder convicts on death row is being delayed because the new amendment to the Offences Against the Person Act does not set out the procedural guidelines for sentencing.

Junor back on the job
HEALTH MINISTER John Junor returned to work yesterday after being ho spitalised briefly last week. Minister Junor, who was released from hospital last Friday, expressed thanks...

Residents block road in Fairy Hill
PORTLAND: ALMOST A week after the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) demolished four houses on the Fairy Hill property in Portland, informal settlers backed by other local residents blocked the main road in that community yesterday.

Fire damages CPTC studio
PADDING USED to soundproof one of the major studios at the Creative Production and Training Centre (CPTC) was damaged during a fire yesterday at the Arnold Road, Kingston facility.