Mixed reviews for 'Access to Information'
STUDENTS WHO participated in the Gleaner Company's Access to Information (ATI) Students' Challenge gave mixed reviews on their experience with government agencies and ministries from which they tried to get information, using the ATI Act...

Warder arrested for attempting to smuggle contraband items
STANLEY BRYAN, a correctional officer at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in Kingston, was arrested last Saturday for attempting to smuggle contraband into the maximum-security prison. This brings to seven, the number of correctional officers...

Doc on rape charge faces trial May 8
DR. MATT Myrie who is accused of raping a patient at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in February 2004 is to be tried on May 8. The trial date was set when the 32-year-old gynaecologist appeared in the Home Circuit Court yesterday.

HEART Trust trains hundreds for Jamalco expansion programme
SOME 1,700 young people are being trained by the HEART Trust/NTA to make them eligible for employment under the multibillion-dollar Jamalco plant expansion programme. While speaking at a stakeholders' breakfast forum held on Friday...

Most Jamaicans feel safe, says poll
ALTHOUGH CRIME and violence remains a major concern for citizens, Jamaicans generally feel safe living in their country, according to a Gleaner-commissioned poll by pollster Bill Johnson. Johnson interviewed 1,008 persons for the survey...

Free health care for Moneague community
OCHO RIOS, St. Ann: CLOSE TO 500 residents of the flood-stricken communities near Moneague were the beneficiaries of free health and counselling services at the health fair held at Rio Hoe Community Centre last week.

Changes for the challenged - New facilities for disabled at next year's cricket world cup 2007
PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED persons attending the ICC Cricket World Cup games at Sabina Park and Greenfield next year, should have no problem accessing the venues, as the stadiums...

Negril coral reef society gets donation
THE AUTHORITY of the National Resources Conservation Act (NRCA) presented the first instalment of a $4.8 million donation to the Negril Coral Reef Preservation Society (NCRPS) last Wednesday at the offices of National Environment and Planning Agency...