Campbell snatches silver - Campbell medals in 100-metre blitz
A LAST-GASP lunge by Jamaica's Veronica Campbell in the women's 100 metres final was not enough to catch fleet-footed American Lauryn Williams in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium last night.

Bomb scare jolts CCJ sitting
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC: A BOMB scare forced an evacuation of the building temporarily housing the newly inaugurated Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) forcing a brief suspension of its historic sitting yesterday.

Charles urges bus licence freeze
THE OPPOSITION Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is clamouring for Government to freeze the issuance of licences to private transport operators in the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region (KMTR) to minimise revenue losses...

No date for start-up work on Falmouth police HQ
WESTERN BUREAU: THERE IS uncertainty as to when construction work on the new $220 million police divisional headquarters in Falmouth, Trelawny, will begin because the parish council has not signed off on the building plans.

Contractor General's probing dirty figures at NSWMA
A NEW stink is emanating from the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) that has forced the Contractor General's Department to revisit the state agency.

Minimum wage talks begin in two weeks
THE MINISTRY of Labour and Social Security is scheduled to begin consultations on the National Minimum Wage across the island within the next two weeks. According to Labour Minister Horace Dalley...