Cop slain in Spanish Town
A POLICE sergeant was shot dead by gunmen at the Spanish Village Plaza, only a few hundred metres from the Twickenham Park Police Academy in St. Catherine, yesterday.

Crawford lambastes Privy Council ruling
ATLANTA, Georgia: FORMER BANKER Don Crawford came out swinging yesterday in a tirade against Monday's ruling by the United Kingdom-based Privy Council that he will have to pay nearly $3 billion to the Government of Jamaica.

Protest over Railway Gardens land swipe
WESTERN BUREAU: BUSINESSMEN IN Railway Gardens, Montego Bay, are protesting the move by the Ministry of Land and Environment to forcefully acquire their lands. The landowners are insisting that they be given the opportunity to participate...

UWI to cut loose 800 st udents
MORE THAN 800 full-time and part-time undergraduate students on the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) could be deregistered by next Wednesday.

Yallahs pipeline repairs resume
WORK ON the Yallahs pipeline in St. Thomas resumed yesterday after Monday's revelation by the National Water Commission (NWC) that workmen were being harassed by local thugs.

'Arcade vendors, stay off streets'
Kingston Mayor Desmond McKenzie says no vending will be allowed on downtown Kingston streets despite last Friday's scorching of parts of the Pearnel Charles Arcade. He said 181 stalls were destroyed in two sections of the arcade during the fire...

Carib Cement lockdown - Row sparks worker walkout
THE CARIBBEAN Cement Company plant in Rockfort, St. Andrew, was shut down yesterday afternoon when approximately 600 workers walked off the job to protest what they claimed was the forced resignation of one...

Quake rescue hopes fade as deaths climb
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, (Reuters): RELIEF EFFORTS remained chaotic late yesterday, nearly four days after the Kashmir earthquake which is now thought to have killed some 40,000 people, and hopes of finding more survivors were fading.

International agencies send experts to quake zone to curb disease
LONDON (AP): Teams of medical experts from the United Nations and other international aid agencies were racing to get urgent medical care yesterday to people injured in the South Asia earthquake and to fix sanitation systems and drinking water...