Garfield Grandison appointed Gleaner's new Editor-in-chief

HON. OLIVER F. Clarke, managing director of the Gleaner Company Limited has an-nounced the appointment of Garfield Grandison, 36, as the new Editor-in-chief of Gleaner publications, effective March 1, 2001. Mr. Grandison who holds a MSc. in Public...

CARICOM signs for CCJ
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP): ELEVEN CARIBBEAN countries signed an agreement yesterday to replace the Privy Council in England with a regional Caribbean Court of Justice.

Union wants meeting on BNS staff cuts
THE BUSTAMANTE Industrial Trade Union (BITU) wants a meeting with the management of the Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) to discuss the tenure of the bank's unionised employees. Senator Ruddy Spencer, BITU senior vice-president, says that during the last 12...

Nude couples tie knot amidst wild cheers

SEEMINGLY OBLIVIOUS to the local furore created by their decision to get married in the nude, 10 American couples yesterday tied the knot at the Hedonism III Resort in Runaway Bay, St. Ann yesterday, amidst wild cheers. The controversial wedding went...

Obscene law to be amended

PERSONS FOUND guilty of trading in or distributing obscene material could soon find themselves paying hefty fines and longer jail terms as Cabinet has given drafting instructions for the proposed amendments to the Obscene Publications (Suppression of)...