Bye bye Bouygues? - French developer of Highway 2000 threatens to pull out of Jamaica
THE FAILURE to meet overly optimistic financial projections by Trans Jamaica Highway (TJH) will force Bouygues Travaux Publics Construction Company, contractors for Highway 2000, to leave the island next year without completing the first phase...

'Jamaican workers still welcome in Cayman'
DESPITE A 'balancing' policy for overseas workers, Jamaicans will still be granted work permits to the Cayman Islands, a government official there said this week. According to David Ritch, chairman of Cayman's Work Permits Board...

GENERATION 2000(G2K) backs judiciary overhaul - Lobbies for Parliament to appoint Supreme Court judges
GENERATION 2000 (G2K), the young professional arm of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), wants Parliament to help appoint Supreme Court judges, as part of an overhaul of the justice system.

Protest in Spanish Town
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: THE POLICE yesterday used front-end loaders and other heavy-duty equipment to clear sections of St. Johns Road, Spanish Town, that were blocked by residents protesting the fatal shooting of Everette Laing...

Campion principal retires
AFTER GIVING more than 40 years of dedicated service to education, Radley Reid, principal of Campion College, will demit office at the end of December. Mr. Reid has served in several educational institutions...

KRAAL TRIAL: DAY 24 - Defence leaves phone records in the dark
CHIEF JUSTICE Lensley Wolfe yesterday upheld objections made by defence lawyers in relation to a particular phone record which the prosecution was seeking to put into evidence. He said he was not going to expose the jury...

Suspects held for pastor's murder
WESTERN BUREAU: A WOMAN and a man were detained yesterday in connection with the suspected contract killing of a 50-year-old St. James pastor at Tucker, Irwin, in the parish on Wednesday night.

Mastermind behind overseas job scam returns to court today
A 40-YEAR-OLD woman, the mastermind behind a multimillion-dollar overseas employment scam, will return to the Corporate Area Criminal Court today for sentencing, after pleading guilty Tuesday, to three counts of obtaining money by false..

Bush gets jury duty call, says he is busy
WASHINGTON (Reuters): PRESIDENT GEORGE W. Bush had to explain that he was a little busy running the United States when he got called for jury duty. Bush never received the summons to appear at a court in Crawford, Texas...