TOP CSEC ACHIEVERS: TOSHIKAH WHEATLEY - Setting right priorities
Toshikah Wheatley of Belair School, Manchester, said "setting her priorities right" earned her nine nine ones in the 2006 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations. "When I got the news, I had mixed feelings ...

JANIEL WILLIAMS - Takes his studying seriously
One year after making the principal's honour roll as a most outstanding grade 10 student at Ferncourt High School, in St Ann, 17 year-old Janiel Williams has again done himself and his school proud...

DAVIA MUIR: Stick to the books
If Davia Muir had only one opportunity to advise her generation this is all she would say: "Keep focused and just stick to your books and even though you can have a social life do not make it override your education, because your education is key."

SHANEA GIBSON: 'I did it for my mother'
The lingering thought of her mother's sacrifice to put her through school was the fuel that gave Shanea Gibson that extra push to do her best. "I know she really works hard to put me through school and everything, and I thought that I would make her...

Killings in quiet Hampton Green have police concerned
Spanish Town, St. Catherine: Despite a decline in the murder rate for the St. Catherine North Division, the recent killings of two men in the quiet Hampton Green community have left the police concerned.

JLP concerned about marl usage on Rio Minho wall
SPALDINGS, Clarendon: Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker for north west Clarendon, Michael Stern, has expressed concern about the continued use of marl quarry stones to build walls and groynes along sections of the Rio Minho in the constituency.

Should employers test their workers for HIV/AIDS?
Leave freedom of choice alone - THE EDITOR, Sir: It's full time somebody stands and says, 'stop the double talk!' Sure, we would like to have everyone tested and know his/her status and then be responsible sexually.

Brawl at NEC meeting
WESTERN BUREAU: A brawl between two suppor-ters of the governing People's National Party partially hijacked a National Executive Council (NEC) conference at the Anchovy High School, in St. James, on Sunday.

Commissioner of police addresses Tawes Pen residents
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas told residents of Tawes Pen and other areas in St. Catherine that according to statistics, approximately 60 to 70 per cent of the crimes in those areas are committed by persons...

NEWSMAKER: Yvonne McCormack - Not an easy road for Portmore lobby head
YESTERDAY, WHEN parents in Portmore prepared their children for the new school term, Yvonne McCormack, strident president of the Portmore Citizens' Advisory Committee (PCAC), steeled herself for another boycott of St. Catherine's controversial toll road.

ICON: Ranglin revisits his 'roots'
THIRTY YEARS ago, guitarist Ernie Ranglin gathered some of Jamaica's top musicians at the Aquarius Sound Studio in Kingston to record his fifth album, Ranglin Roots. Though it was a hit with critics, the seven-track...