GLEANER HONOUR AWARD RECIPIENTS - Providing for the needy
WHEN THE government of Jamaica cannot cope it is left to voluntary organisations to step in and provide the missing services. And in Majesty Gardens, the St. Andrew Anglican Diocese has been making a comprehensive effort in its own backyard.

'Golding's tenure in the JAMAICA Labour Party(JLP) still tenuous'
THE JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) was last night expected to discuss its leader, Bruce Golding's sagging performance in recent opinion polls. Yesterday, the party's information spokesperson, Dwight Nelson, said...

Jamaicans get up to 20 years for ganja in Cuba
HAVANA (Reuters): A CUBAN court sentenced three Jamaican men caught smuggling 1,340 pounds (610kg) of marijuana to prison terms of up to 20 years, the ruling Communist Party newspaper Granma reported on Saturday.

NWA to scrutinise expenses - Agency will curb spending on road repairs in Rio Grande Valley
PORT ANTONIO, Portland: THE NATIONAL Works Agency (NWA) will use a prioritisation system as it seeks to rehabilitate roads in the Rio Grande Valley. Acting communications manager of the NWA, Petra-Keane Williams, said...

Emergency medical centre now in Linstead
A BRANCH of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is now located in Linstead, St. Catherine, Jamaica. The centre which has been in operation for over a month, is housed in the fire station there.

A breath of fresh air!
THE FOLLOWING are letters providing feedback on our new community feature 'Roving With Lalah' done by reporter Robert Lalah which appears every Thursday in The Gleaner. If you want Robert to visit your community, send him a note...

Stuck on you
BEFORE THE cinema came to the little Trinidad village in which I grew up, the expression, or even exclamation, "Draw!" made us reach for our pencils and paint brushes and not for guns as is now the norm.

THE CLEMENT BECKFORD STORY: PART III - Making of a murderer
ACCORDING TO information The Jamaica Gleaner was able to piece together, and by Clement Beckford's own admission, which he made in October this year, he was born on July 10, 1952 in the quiet district of Pen River, Hanover.

Wet, wet Wakefield Jamaica
TWO WEEKS ago, several residents of Wakefield, Trelawny, Jamaica were forced to run for their lives when rising waters engulfed sections of the community. Last week, just as they were moving back into their homes, the residents received another setback.