Cops threaten more sickouts
MORE THAN 2,000 rank-and-file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) stayed off the job yesterday to press the Government for an increase in salary and fringe benefits. Contacted yesterday, general secretary of the Police Federation...

Power cuts, load-shedding persist
THREE DAYS after a massive islandwide blackout, several areas continue to be plagued by power outages. The Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd. (JPS) has explained that the ongoing power failures are resulting from a shortfall in generating capacity....

Church rebuked for cover-up by elder
KAREN MORGAN, an elder at Macedonia Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kingston, has urged the Church not to cover up violations when they occur because such action will inevitably drive people away from the institution.

June fires left 100 homeless
RESIDENTIAL FIRES wreaked havoc across Kingston and St. Andrew last month, leaving more than a hundred persons homeless and more than $8.5 million worth of damage. These figures were compiled by the Kingston and St. Andrew division of the Jamaica Fire...

Government of Jamaica to draft child porn law
JUSTICE MINISTER and Attorney-General, Senator A.J. Nicholson, has given instruction for the drafting of child pornography legislation. According to Canute Brown, director of justice reform in the Ministry of Justice, he has been mandated...

The Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) to probe Dayton church
THE CHURCH Dayton Diamond Ridge, the affiliate worship centre of former deacon, Donovan Jones, who has been implicated in the sexual molestation of a 13-year-old girl, will come under the microscope again.

4-y-o among Jamaicans trapped in Lebanon
WESTERN BUREAU: THE DISTRAUGHT Lebanese father of a four-year-old Jamaican boy pleaded with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday for their intervention in getting his son out of the war-torn Middle East country of Lebanon.