Government promises safer roads
LESS THAN 24 hours after five persons were killed in a motor vehicle accident along Highway 2000, Robert Pickersgill, Minister of Housing, Transport and Works, said Government plans to institute several measures to make Jamaica's roads safer.

Two-year-old with leg tumour gets operation at CRH
SHANEL COOPER, the two-year-old girl, who needed urgent surgery to remove a tumour from her leg and was recently featured in The Gleaner, has had the required operation.

GSAT results on CDs
THE MINISTRY of Education and Youth will be packaging the placement results and scores of the 2006 Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) on compact discs (CDs) for dissemination to all schools by the end of next month.

JCTU warns MoU splinter lobby groups
A SENIOR official of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions has warned bargaining units that have decided to pull away from the group to negotiate their own salary packages with Government, that they should not expect to get a better increase...

'Da Vinci' - A challenge to churches
THE DA Vinci Code movie, which is scheduled for its Jamaican release today, continues to generate outrage among churchgoers in foreign lands. So far, not much has been said by local church leaders on the movie or its forerunner, the novel.

Increased cooperation on crime, say police
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER of Police Leslie Green said the nation had seen an increase in public cooperation in solving crimes. ACP Green was speaking at the monthly Crime Phone-In Programme, hosted by the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica...