Gleaner tops PAHO awards
THE GLEANER Company has copped three of the five Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO)/ World Health Organi-sation (WHO) Awards for Excellence in health journalism. The awards were presented yesterday at PAHO's downtown Kingston offices.

Insurance officials against retro third party payments
INSURANCE INDUSTRY officials are predicting that a proposal for insurance companies to make retroactive third party payments to clients will cause severe financial dislocations.

J'can farm workers killed in Canada
TWO JAMAICAN farm workers died in Canada yesterday while another is in critical condition in hospital after being hit off their bicycles in Ontario.

Gunmen murder six women in four days - One hundred and nineteen since January
LAST SATURDAY, 35-year-old Dione Giscombe was chased inside a busy establishment on Gold Street, downtown Kingston, and shot 11 times by one of two gunmen. Two days later, another woman, Jashrine Reid, 23, and her three-month-old son...

Tour on to defuse violence in Mtn View
A DELEGATION, including Bishop Herro Blair, head of the Peace Management Initiative (PMI), and South East St. Andrew Member of Parliament Maxine Henry-Wilson, is scheduled to tour the war-torn community of Mountain View today...

WHIZ KIDS - Determination, hard work did it for Yoland Sinclair
LEADING UP to the 2005 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, there were days when Yoland Sinclair, of Manchester High School, felt that she would not make it. But she proved that determination and hard work is.

WHIZ KIDS - Studying with focused students pays off for Neveta Sutherland
NEVETA SUTHERLAND is sociable, she has many friends, and parties are her forte. Nevertheless, it is an aptitude to make friends with those who will have a positive influence on her that keeps her focused.

Amended Road Traffic Act reaping success - Pickersgill
MINISTER OF Transport and Works, Robert Pickersgill, says the recent amendments to the Road Traffic Act are reaping success. He said that as indiscipline and discourtesy become more prevalent on the nation's roads...