Fire guts Old Harbour bedding firm
A SECTION of the Jamaica Bedding Company in Old Harbour, St. Catherine, was gutted by fire on Wednesday. Eyewitness reports suggest the fire started around 10:30 a.m. in a section of the building, which is used for the storage and assembly of mattresses.

New Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) secondary level programme by 2007
THE CARIBBEAN Examinations Council (CXC) is to introduce a new secondary level programme by 2007. The new programme - the Caribbean Certificate for Secondary Competence, is intended to meet the demand for certification...

... Minott highlights deficiencies in Jamaica's Education system
EDUCATOR DR. DENNIS Minott has rapped the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) for deficiencies he has identified in the curricula and grading system of the regional examination. The body ends a two-day meeting in Kingston today.

Jamaica's Supreme Court rules against Davies' concession revocation order
A SUPREME Court judge has ruled that the Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. Omar Davies, exceeded his jurisdiction when he revoked the concession on a 1999 BMW motor car.

'Knowledge needed to combat environmental challenges'
PROFESSOR GERALD Lalor made a sometimes light-hearted, humorous, but always impassioned lecture on the need for Jamaica to address its environmental challenges through intellect and knowledge...

Region's first ear implant surgery on tomorrow
A 40-YEAR-OLD woman, who has been hearing-impaired since birth, will be given a new lease on life tomorrow. Local and overseas doctors will fit her with a device to improve her hearing in what is being called the 'first cochlear implant surgery...

National Health Fund (NHF) - lifeline for the chronically ill
FOR NORMAN Reid, a dairy and vegetable farmer, the National Health Fund (NHF) swipe card represents more than a piece of plastic. For him, it's a lifeline - the difference between sending money down the drain and having additional savings.

Mixed reactions to Prime Ministers' pension hike
THERE ARE varying reactions to Tuesday's motion in Parliament granting former Prime Ministers pensions equal to the salary of an incumbent prime minister.The scheme, which has been active for 13 years...

Two get life in England for racist murder
LONDON, England: THE TWO men convicted of the racially motivated murder of 18-year-old Anthony Walker have been slapped with life sentences in England. Walker, a black man of Jamaica parentage, was chopped in the head with an axe in July this year.