MPs fail to make statutory declarations

A REPORT tabled by Prime Minister P.J. Patterson in the House of Representatives yesterday listed two People's National Party (PNP) Members of Parliament as having failed to make any form of statutory declarations for 1999. The report showed...

I have no plans to retire soon - Shearer

TRADE UNIONIST and former Prime Minister Hugh Shearer says he has no intention of retiring from the trade union movement soon. "My organisation needs me," Mr. Shearer said yesterday at his Duke Street office. He was responding to queries from The...

Road safety body wants speed cameras
WESTERN BUREAU: THE NATIONAL Road Safety Council (NRSC) is lobbying for a fund to finance the enforcement of road traffic laws by introducing, among other measures, cameras on Jamaican roads to catch speeding motorists who elude the police.

Blind woman weeps over death of disabled son
A 93-YEAR-OLD blind woman wept uncontrollably yesterday morning after she learnt the disabled boy she adopted 36 years ago was executed by gunmen in Greenwich Town, St. Andrew. "Dem kill Patrick, lawd dem kill him and him was going for me breakfast,"...

Mayor's official residence owes NWC $17,000
THE NATIONAL Water Commission is still owed thousands of dollars in water bills for premises at 7 Argyle Road, Kingston, the official residence of the Mayor of Kingston. Checks by The Gleaner revealed that since September 25, 2000, no water bill had...