Facelift for five Spanish Town inner-city communities
FIVE OF the most impoverished, violence-torn areas in Spanish Town, St. Catherine are among the 12 inner-city communities across the island set to benefit from a $2 billion facelift project.

'Jamaican Government must prepare five-year-olds for primary education'
ALL FIVE-YEAR-OLDS may soon be admitted to primary schools if the Government acts on a recom-mendation made by the task force report on education. According to the report, Government should assume full responsibility for five-year-olds...

Council for World Mission assembly for Jamaica Grande
'TAKE HOME the Good News' is the theme for the Council for World Mission (CWM) assembly, scheduled for the Sunset Jamaica Grande in Ocho Rios, June 18-27. Some 200 CWM delegates from Africa, Europe, the Pacific, the Caribbean and South-East Asia...

Vaz criticises Government of Jamaica for failing to repair stations in Portland
PORT ANTONIO, Portland: THE GOVERNMENT has come under heavy criticism from Daryl Vaz, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker for western Portland, who has accused it of neglecting the Buff Bay and Hope Bay police stations, allowing them to fall...

Child Development Agency (CDA) reaping early success
THE INITIATIVE by the Child Development Agency (CDA) to place children in state-run homes in foster care has reaped early success, according to information received from the agency last week.

Trial set for man charged with murder of former JGRA head
THE MAN who is charged with the murder of former president of the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association (JGRA), Lloyd G. Brown, and his fiancée, Sandra Campbell, is to be tried on September 27. He is Peter Dougal, 39, of Santoy district...

Cops aim to neutralise gangs
WESTERN BUREAU: SUNDAY'S POLICE operation in Glendevon, St. James, in which two men were fatally shot, is among several that will be carried to neutralise gang activities in the parish and the western region.

19-year-old electrician acquitted of gun charges - Crown Counsel, Stephanie Jackson Haisley, conceded that there were discrepancies which the Crown could not support.
DISCREPANCIES IN the evidence given by the police about how they were fired at, led to the acquittal of 19-year-old electrician Henroy Gregory, of Old England, Manchester.

Tips on water conservation
There are four basic ways to save water: - Be conscious of the amount of water you utilise and use less whenever you can. A leak of merely one drop per second wastes 2,400 gallons per year. Most leaks are easy to repair...

One who lived her life well
MALVERN, St. Elizabeth: WHEN THE scores of mourners turned up at the Bethlehem Moravian Church last Saturday to pay their last respects to the late Phyllis Maud Tomlinson (nee Levy), who passed away on May 3, they were attending her thanksgiving service..