Waterhouse hot spot trades in guns for paintbrushes
BALCOMBE DRIVE has been torn by violence over the past two years, but residents yesterday buried their hatchets in the ground on Labour Day in a brave step to heal that rift. Residents of the Waterhouse, St. Andrew, community armed themselves...

School for deaf gets triple treat
LISTER MAIR-GILBY Comprehensive and Junior High School for the Deaf is a special school. So special is it to the community of Papine that the institution attracted three major Labour Day projects.

Charity begins at home for Portia
THE PORTIA Simpson Basic School, on Payne Avenue in St. Andrew, received a well-needed facelift as part of yesterday's islandwide Labour Day activities. Scores of community members gathered at the school, repainted the building and planted grass...

Spanish Town clean-up
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: THE LABOUR Day activities in and around Spanish Town were well supported by several groups and citizens who turned out to do voluntary work. Several members of the Jamaica Police Academy, along with the Social Development...

Red Stripe rescues cops
LABOUR DAY took on a new meaning for a group of Red Stripe employees this year as, instead of getting involved in the regular clean-up exercise at the community level, or beautifying schools, their focus was on the Seaview Gardens Police..

Amnesty slams Jamaica's human rights record
AMNESTY INTERNA-TIONAL (AI) has again painted a macabre picture of human rights in Jamaica, in a wide-ranging condemnation of extrajudicial killings, violence against women and children, and the buggery law, in a report released...

Government of Jamaica phases out teaching-certificate programmes
IN LESS than five years, persons training to become teachers will graduate with degrees, as the Government moves to revolutionise teacher education, by phasing out certificate programmes.

Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort's case delayed
THE CASE brought by Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort in Montego Bay against a ruling of the Industrial Disputes Tribunal was last week put off to September 20. Mr. Justice Rattray granted an adjournment following objections raised by government lawyers...

Golding unveils proposal on use of NIS funds today
WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER Bruce Golding says he will be putting forward a proposal to the Government today, suggesting how it could utilise the $40 billion being held in the National Insurance Scheme (NIS).

Malvo rats on Muhammad
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (AP): JAMAICAN-BORN LEE Boyd Malvo testified yesterday that his former partner and father figure, John Allen Muhammad, told him before the 2002 sniper attacks that panicked the region around America's capital for weeks...