Student leaders to help address teenage issues
PROMPTED BY concerns over the level of anti-social behaviour in schools, the National Centre for Youth Development (NCYD) is training more than 50 student leaders who will help with some of the issues affecting their peers.

Gleaner wins Privy Council libel appeal
THE UNITED Kingdom Privy Council on Monday threw out an appeal brought by chartered accountant Leymon Strachan and ruled that Mr. Justice Clarence Walker had the jurisdiction to set aside Strachan's libel award against The Gleaner Company Ltd.

Mayor to tour UWI sewage treatment plant
KINGSTON'S MAYOR Desmond Mckenzie is scheduled to tour the University of the West Indies' sewage treatment facilities on Friday. This follows allegations by Mayor Mckenzie two weeks ago...

GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS - Struggle, sacrifice, the name of the game
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL Achievement Awards (GGAA) attempts to identify 14 persons, one from each parish, who have from modest social and economic circumstances, been able to uplift themselves...

Medical Council probes 'fake doc'
ROOSEVELT CROOKS, who, two years ago, was accused of practising medicine without a licence but who was later cleared by a court, is again being probed by the Medical Council of Jamaica.

Second phase of Lift-Up Ja gets $2b
CABINET HAS approved $2 billion for the implementation of phase two of the Lift-Up Jamaica project, which began this month. Information Minister Senator Burchell Whiteman made the disclosure of the approval during Monday's regular post-Cabinet press...

RAGE-ing against depravity - South St Andrew man promotes inner-city self-reliance
"Voluntarism is not I," believes Vuraldo Barnett, the executive director of RAGE (Revolutionary Artistic Global Expression). Describing himself as a social entrepreneur, he regards himself as part of a newer more self-reliant generation...