Clean-up drive for Portmore Mall
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine THE ST. CATHERINE Parish Council will be seeking the assistance of the police to remove illegal vendors from the Portmore Mall and the assistance of the Transport Authority to remove illegal taxi operators from that area.

Hope for security guards - Cabinet sub-committee to look at Private Security Regulations Act
OVER 15,000 security guards are still awaiting Government guidelines on their status as workers. The guards were hoping that the issue would have been resolved by a proposed amendment to the Labour Relations and Industrial Disputes Act...

Businessman kills wife, then self
WESTERN BUREAU: A RUNNING 14-month feud between a 51-year-old Ocho Rios businessman and his wife turned deadly on Saturday night when he shot and killed her and then turned the gun on himself.

EARTHQUAKE AWARENESS WEEK
THE WEEK January 13-20, 2001 is being observed by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management as Earthquake Awareness Week in commemoration of two major earthquakes, which affected the island on January 14, 1907 and January 13, 1993.