Shopping uptown - a mixed bag
WHILE SHOPPINGS in downtown Kingston on Saturday morning became an event of bustling competition, bargains and low, low prices, shopping uptown was tame buy comparison.

The Warehouse could face law suit - FTC
THE FAIR Trading Commission says it is considering taking to court, directors of The Warehouse furniture store, as they have closed shop while owing thousands of dollars to customers.

Services Commission awaits DPP's response to warder's case
THE OFFICE of the Public Services Commission is still awaiting a ruling from Kent Pantry, Q.C., Director of Public Prosecutions, on the fate of 20 warders who have been suspended from work at half-pay since 1999.

2-y-o perishes in blaze
THE QUIET district of Woodpark, St. Mary, was shaken yesterday morning by the fiery death of two-year-old, Davi Treasure, who perished in a blaze which destroyed the wooden two-bedroom house in which she was left alone.

Heaven is new exec chairman of sugar industry body
DERRICK HEAVEN, the current executive chairman of the financially strapped Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ), has been appointed the new executive chairman of the Sugar Industry Authority (SIA), the industry's highest administrative body.