Saving schools - Churches want more influence in classroom
CLERGYMEN HAVE voiced their desire to reassert influence in schools to reduce widespread social decay as well as the escalation of violent crime. While discussing the issue of lawlessness, and the role the Church should play in tackling the problem...
Pickersgill censure motion stalls
PARLIAMENT AGAIN failed to debate a censure motion brought against Transport and Works Minister, Robert Pickersgill, raising the ire of the Opposition during yesterday's sitting of the House of Representatives.
Long Pond begins production early
WESTERN BUREAU: THE 2006 sugar crop at the Long Pond Sugar Factory in Trelawny will commence today, a month earlier that the usual January start. Kingsley Clarke, chief executive officer of the factory, urged workers...
Lawyer and Chief Justice in legal row
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW HUMPHREY McPherson is pursuing a battle in the Court of Appeal to recover his motor vehicle which was seized to recover legal costs in the slander suit he had brought against Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe.
Shooting survivors fighting to erase scars
AS TRAUMATIC as it was, 50-year-old Horace Small finds it difficult to erase the tragedy of November 18 from his memory. That Friday morning, heavily-armed gunmen firebombed the tenement yard at 11 Mulgrave Lane in Kingston, where he and his family lived.
Jamaica's Prime Minister in Barbados for Cuba Summit
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson left the island yesterday afternoon for Bridgetown, Barbados, to attend the 11th Special Meeting of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the second CARICOM/Cuba Summit.
Alleged gangsters slain - Men linked to Clansman gang
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: THREE MEN said to be members of the notorious Clansman gang were shot and killed in the past 48 hours. They are Orane Sachell, 30, of 3 Corletts Road; Owen Williams, alias 'Christopher' of Cumberland, Portmore, St. Catherine..
Three held for 'Bulbie' stash theft
THE ROCK River police have arrested three men in connection with the theft of items from the house that was owned by late Clansman leader, Donovan 'Bulbie' Bennett. According to Constable Odale Mulgrave, of the Constabulary Communication Network...
Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) boss wants Flankers road repairs fast-tracked
WESTERN BUREAU: PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), Horace Peterkin, is calling on the National Works Agency (NWA) to fast-track repairs along the Flankers main road in Montego Bay, St. James.
|
