Schoolboy slain - Man also killed in Tarrant shooting, student knifed
Just one week before the end of the school year, another student's life has been brutally snuffed out.An area adjacent to the Tarrant High School, St. Andrew, was the scene of a shooting yesterday which took the lives of 15-year-old Gary Pierce, a student of the school and Donovan McLean, a construction worker of a Tarrant Drive address.
Senator calls for abstinence education
A Government senator, alarmed at the reported high rate of sexual activity among under-age teenagers, yesterday called for an intensive campaign of abstinence education to curb early sexual initiation.
EU continues fight against poverty - Forty communities islandwide will benefit from the programme ...
GOVERNMENT AND the European Union (EU) yesterday signed a financing agreement to launch phase two of the poverty-reduction programme which was first launched in 2002. Finance and Planning Minister...
PCJ aims to rev up hybrid car demand
Government's decision this week to reduce import duty for hybrid vehicles to 16.5 per cent should be grounds for rejoicing among environmentally concerned car buyers.
Mother loses HIV/AIDS claim against UHWI
The mother of a teenager who died two years after he was diagnosed with Hepatitis C and HIV has lost her negligence suit against the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) and the National Blood Transfusion Service.
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