Updated plan sought for children's health care
DELEGATES FROM rich and poor countries in the Americas grappled yesterday with the construction of a new paradigm for the health care of the region's children as the workshop meetings leading up to the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Children and Social..

Charles faces new challenge

PEARNEL CHARLES appears to be facing another political challenge on the eve of a Jamaica Labour Party annual conference. However, this time the skirmish is within his North-Central Clarendon constituency where he is the party's caretaker.

New regulatory body for financial sector
THE GOVERNMENT is to set up a Financial Services Commission to regulate the operations of the finanacial sector. Information Minister Maxine Henry-Wilson told reporters at Monday's post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House that the Government intends.

Street people still awaiting compensation
WESTERN BUREAU There is still no indication as to when the Montego Bay street people will begin receiving the $20,000 monthly compensation announced by the Government last month.