Spanish hotel case may affect Cricket World Cup
THE SPANISH owners of the Bahia Principe Hotel under construction at Pear Tree Bottom, Runaway Bay, St. Ann, are contending that Cricket World Cup will be severely affected, if the order quashing the environmental permit is not set aside...

Cemetery meeting abandoned
LUCEA, Hanover: The Hanover Parish Council's Planning and Environment Committee meeting was abandoned yesterday because there was no quorum. The meeting was called to discuss concerns of citizens of the Burnt Ground community...

GLEANER-BILL JOHNSON POLL - Crime still top concern for Jamaicans
CRIME AND VIOLENCE continues to be the most pressing problem facing Jamaicans while many say they need more jobs. A Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll, conducted on May 13 and 14, found that 72 per cent of Jamaicans see crime and violence...

JANICE ALLEN CASE - Lawyer says client being harassed
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW RICHARD Small told the Court of Appeal yesterday that there were attempts of bribery and intimidation by certain forces to prevent Janice Allen's mother from pursuing her case.

Doctors rush to obey the law
SEVERAL MEDICAL doctors have been flocking the offices of the Medical Council of Jamaica to pay up their outstanding fees and become regularised, according to Dr. John McHardy, the council's registrar. Last week, the council published, in The Gleaner...

Illegal settlements targeted
A SQUATTER MANAGEMENT Unit has been established by Government to take a two-pronged approach to bring more than 300 informal and illegal settlements islandwide under control. Roger Clarke, Minister of Agriculture and Land, launched the unit yesterday...

200,000 names to be axed from the voters' list
DIRECTOR OF Elections Danville Walker says that over 200,000 people will be removed from the June 16 voters' list following Monday's closure of its re-verification books. "I cannot say exactly how many people will be removed from the list...

D-Day in Eastern Westmoreland
WESTERN BUREAU: THREE CONTENDERS will be facing the polls in Eastern Westmoreland today to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson in March.

Jamaicans in their new world
WHEN WE first went to New York to interview Jamaican migrants for our project, their stories in many ways echoed those we had already heard in Britain and Canada, but we were taken by surprise by one sharp difference.