Former FBI honcho was 'Deep Throat'
SANTA ROSA, California (AP): THE WASHINGTON Post said yesterday that a former FBI official, W. Mark Felt, was the confidential source known as 'Deep Throat' who provided the newspaper information that led to President Richard Nixon's impeachment...

New Bishop of Kingston
AFTER MUCH pomp and pageantry the Reverend Canon Dr. Robert McLean Thompson was officially weighed, measured and found worthy to be named the new Anglican Bishop of Kingston.

Stacy-Ann begins quest for spelling bee glory
JAMAICA'S STACY-ANN Pearson, the winner of The Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee competition will today begin her quest to become the world's top speller when the Scripps Howard Spelling Bee Championship kicks off in Washington, D.C.

Defiant Panday faces jail time - Worst of times for former T&T Prime Minister
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC: FORMER TRINIDAD and Tobago Prime Minister, Basdeo Panday, was preparing to spend last night in the remand yard of the Frederick Street Prison after he refused to accept a TT$750,000 (US$125,000) bail offer set by a magistrate

Teaching experiment bears fruit in Ewarton
IN AN attempt to improve the performance of grade six students at the Polly Ground Primary School in Ewarton, St. Catherine, the teachers implemented a strategy last October, where girls are taught separately from boys.

Simpson Miller to get final NWA report next week
MINISTER OF Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson Miller, yesterday said that the final report on the operations of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) should be in her hands next week.

'Community policing to curtail crime in Ja'
KATHLEEN KENNEDY Townsend, former assistant deputy attorney-general of the United States and lieutenant governor of Maryland, is recommending community policing as the most effective way of curtailing the crime and violence...

District constables want pension plan
THERE IS no pension scheme for the island's district constables, many of whom have been experiencing severe financial hardships after they retire because of old age or ill health.