Fire-bombings continue
AT LEAST 15 persons, including children, were displaced yesterday after their homes were fire-bombed in an early morning attack. The torching of the tenement dwelling on Upper King Street, Fletcher's Land, is an apparent continuation of the reprisal...

PM seeks to 'free up' marijuana
WASHINGTON, (Reuters): JAMAICAN PRIME Minister P.J. Patterson said yesterday that he found "persuasive" arguments for decriminalising the private use of ganja, the local term for marijuana, or cannabis.

Cuban teachers to help fill gap
EIGHTEEN NEW Cuban teachers and 21 returning ones will arrive in the island Thursday ahead of next week's start of the new school year to help fill the gap created by the recent exodus of Jamaican teachers for jobs in New York and London. The teachers...

Clerk on fraud rap
SPALDINGS, Clarendon: A CLERK employed at the Western Union branch inside the Spaldings People's Co-operative Bank who told police she was held-up there at gunpoint and robbed of $400,000 early last month, has been arrested and charged with creating...