Mixed support in the west
WESTERN BUREAU: IN RESPONSE to calls by the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) for a private sector-led protest against crime, the members of at least two Chambers of Commerce in western Jamaica have rejected the idea...

Raining fire - Gunmen burn homes in Hannah Town
EIGHT FAMILIES were left homeless yesterday after heavily-armed gunmen invaded a section of the Hannah Town community in west Kingston, burning six houses.

Environmentalists not in favour of diesel
THE GOVERNMENT'S massive advertising campaign promoting diesel fuel has rubbed some environmentalists the wrong way. The environmenta-lists believe that the promotion of diesel could have damaging effects on the environment.

'Political union needed for economic success' - Nevis PM says CARICOM unity is a necessary step for success
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC: ST. KITTS-Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas says Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will have to consider some form of a political union in order to achieve the economic goals...

Carib Foreign Ministers to meet in Bahamas
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC: THE CARIBBEAN Community's (CARICOM) position on the reform of the United Nations Security Council will be among matters discussed by Caribbean Foreign Ministers when they meet in Belize, this weekend.

St Thomas Parish Council gets ultimatum from residents
ST. THOMAS: RESIDENTS OF Yallahs and its environs have given the St. Thomas Parish Council three months to have the markets in the town square back in operation.

Happy homecoming for Commissioner - Lauded on visit back to native St Ann community
OCHO RIOS, St. Ann: PRAISES, commendation and even blessings from above showered down upon Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas, recently when he made his historic journey back home to his native district of Murray Mountain in south-west St Ann...

Phillips lays wreath for slain policemen
NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Dr. Peter Phillips, yesterday laid a wreath in Trafalgar Park, St. Andrew, to memorialise the killing of five policemen since January.

Jamaica Mortgage Bank head resigns - Thomas accepts full responsibility for procedural breaches
CHAIRMAN OF the Jamaica Mortgage Bank (JMB) Peter Thomas resigned from the post yesterday in the wake of irregularities discovered at the institution.