Conch poachers a problem
JAMAICAN AND foreign fishermen are pooling their resources and efforts in illegal conch-fishing, spurred on in large part by Government's inability to re-open the conch season for the last three years. At least five locally-owned boats have been...

A man for the people

CALL HIM social defender, protector of the downtrodden, do-gooder, whatever you will, Public Defender Howard Hamilton, Q.C, says he's focused only on getting his job done. Full stop. Since April, when he became Jamaica's first Public Defender (a...

PM says no EAC phase-out plan

PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson yesterday denied that the Government was planning to phase out the Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC). But Mr. Patterson did not explain how it was that the "Memorandum of Objects and Reasons" of the National Registration...

Policemen denied bail
WESTERN BUREAU: THREE MONTEGO Bay policemen who are charged with robbery with aggravation and have been in custody since the first week of December, were on Wednesday denied bail for a fourth time.

Mona Commons occupants relocation upsets KSAC
THE PROPOSED relocation of occupants of Mona Commons, St. Andrew, to lands owned by the University of West Indies (UWI) has upset the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation's (KSAC) Building and Town Planning Committee. The committee's concern stems from...