Patrick Allen gets second term as Adventist head
PASTOR PATRICK Allen was, last Thursday, re-elected to serve for a second consecutive five-year term as president of the over 230,000-strong West Indies Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, at its Quinquennial Session in Mandeville, Manchester.

MP Williams comes under fire from constituents
WHEN THE popular Television Jamaica programme 'Your Issues Live' was broadcast from the St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Waterhouse, St. Andrew, last Thursday, an intense war of words broke out between residents and O.T. Williams, Member of Parliament...

St Catherine treatment plants below standard
THREE NATIONAL Water Commission (NWC) sewage treatment plants in St. Catherine are deteriorating and operating below the required standards, the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has said.

Teenager saved from rapist
A 57-year-old man was convicted of indecent assault on a 12-year-old girl and sentenced to six months suspended for one year in the Morant Bay Resident Magistrate's Court last week Friday, November 11.

Axe murderer changes plea
LONDON, England: ONE OF two men accused of killing 18-year-old Anthony Walker with an axe, pleaded guilty as the trial began in the Liverpool Crown Court yesterday.

'Gov't has been acting illegally' - Another loan agreement without parliamentary approval
THE ISSUE of Letters of Undertaking and Guarantees again took the spotlight at yesterday's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting. This time the issue was a $254-million loan agreement signed between the Belgian and Jamaican governments...

Chinese Gov't to finance MoBay convention centre
WESTERN BUREAU: NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN the Jamaican and Chinese governments are far advanced to finance the long-awaited convention centre in Montego Bay, after the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) failed to secure funding from the Mexican bank...

Copyright agency makes first royalty payments
FORTY-NINE AUTHORS and publishers received royalty cheques totalling $545,956 last Thursday at the offices of the Jamaican Copyright Licensing Agency (JAMCOPY) in Kingston.