MacMillan appointed chairman of Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ's) security committee
COLONEL TREVOR MacMillan has been appointed chairman of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ's) Standing Committee on National Security (SCNS), effective November 25. Mr. Macmillan who is currently executive director of Security...

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launching project to boost community policing
THE UNITED States Agency for International Development (USAID), is tendering a new project to boost community policing in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). The USAID has been involved in a similar project in the volatile Grants Pen community.

Schadé Stanton - A cut above the rest
SCHADÉ STANTON, a former student of Montego Bay High School copped the title of top overall student in the 2005 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations by gaining nine distinctions and one credit.

Opposition questions fees for Kraal trial
THE JAMAICA Labour Party has expressed grave concerns with the reported $19 million approved by Cabinet for the defence of six policemen. While acknowledging that it is common practice for government to assist in the payment of legal fees for policemen...

Create more opportunities to empower the youth in Jamaica
UNITED STATES (US) Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, has challenged Jamaicans to stem the local crime problem and the drug trade by creating more opportunities to empower the youth and include them as integral stakeholders in the country's development.

First New Orleans public school opens since Katrina
NEW ORLEANS (AP): GREETED BY welcome signs hung over the door and in the hallways, students began returning yesterday to the first regular public school to reopen since Hurricane Katrina hit three months ago.