ACROSS THE NATION
Montego Bay, ST. JAMES: Governor-General Professor Kenneth Hall is urging Caribbean states to place greater focus on avoiding the consequences of natural hazards, such as hurricanes, by intensifying disaster mitigation programmes.

'Old Harbour Bay Primary a watery prison'
PROCLAIMING THAT he is fed up with his school being transformed into a watery prison whenever it rains, Milton Wade, principal of the Old Harbour Bay Primary School in St. Catherine, is appealing to the authorities to clean the gully...

Prisoner claiming unfair trial has appeal thrown out
A PRISONER, who claimed he did not get a fair trial because of a judge's undue interventions during his trial, failed in his attempt yesterday to convince the Court of Appeal. The court, after hearing legal arguments, dismissed the appeal and ordered...

VOLUNTEER OF THE WEEK: CARLTON POWELL - Working for a better community
IN HIS capacity as chairman of the Fletchers Land Management and Benevolent Society, Carlton Powell said it is a desire to initiate a change in his community that motivates him to give freely of himself.

VOLUNTEER TODAY: Fletchers Land - taking a stand
FLETCHERS LAND in western Kingston is currently a violence free community, according to its residents. However, they say this was not attained by sudden flight.

The spiritual lives of public people
SOMETIMES PUBLIC persons are not known to be religious. But up close they exude awesome spiritual perspectives, which to the discerning, will serve to broaden one's horizons and appreciation of the sacred and transcendent.