Fire razes Azan's Supercentre
AZAN'S SUPERCENTRE, a signature merchandise store in the Cross Roads area, St. Andrew, was partially damaged by fire late Saturday night. According to owner Milade Azan, "Every piece of merchandise in the huge two-storey building was either burnt...

Keeping the elderly in the limelight
FASHION HATS are not her style. She does not wear them. Period. Still, Dr. Denise Eldemire-Shearer is a woman of many voluntary hats. So much, that the 53-year-old lover of charitable work has difficulty keeping tabs on them all.

Kingfish nets some doubting Thomases
IN OCTOBER 2004 when National Security Minister, Peter Phillips, announced the formation of Operation Kingfish, doubting Thomases not only scoffed at the formation of another elite unit within the Jamaica Constabulary Force...

Ministry, JCF to discuss recruitment
SENIOR MEMBERS of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and Gilbert Scott, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, are scheduled to meet today to discuss procedures for the JCF's recruiting blitz which hopes to net 1,500 new members...

Trelawny's Service gives plan thumbs up
THE PRESIDENT of the Trelawny Cricket Association (TCA), Phillip Service, says his organisation will be improving its management structure to bolster the marketing capabilities of the stadium being built for the ICC 2007 Cricket World Cup...

Greenfield's future safe - PM
THE STADIUM to be constructed on the Greenfield site in Trelawny will be transferred into the hands of business interests to sustain its marketability after the ICC 2007 Cricket World Cup, for which it will be built.

Community service sentence for principal
AUSTIN BURRELL, principal of Penwood High School in St. Andrew, was sentenced to 100 hours of community service last Friday in the Half-Way Tree Resident Magistrate's Court for assaulting one of his teachers.

Merl Grove to launch four scholarships - In honour of crash victim
MERL GROVE High School will be naming four scholarships in memory of Shakara Harris, a former student who was mowed down by a car and killed in 2004 while attempting to cross the road.