Jamaican eye doctor honoured in Canada

OTTAWA: DR. GARTH Alfred Taylor, O.D., who hails from Montego Bay but now practices medicine in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (Civil Division). He is one of 32 individuals receiving recognition for outstanding.

Trench Town gets new reading centre
RESIDENTS OF Trench Town in South St. Andrew now have a new reading centre which was officially opened last Friday. The centre, a project of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), in collaboration with the Trench Town Development Association (TTDA),.

Confession haunts killer
THE COURT of Appeal has ordered that a prisoner who confessed to his cellmate that he had raped and killed his neighbour must be hanged for the crime. Michael Prince, labourer, of Mount Ararat, St. Ann, was convicted on October 30, 1998 of capital...

Westmoreland setting up halfway house for street people
PRESIDENT OF the Westmoreland Association of Street People (WASP), Barbara Stewart, said the organisation has been given an old structure that sits on the grounds of the Savanna-la-Mar Infirmary to be used as a halfway home for the street people of the..