Indigent could suffer under new social security scheme
POOR RELIEF officials islandwide are expressing fear that many of the country's 11,000 indigents may "fall through the cracks" when the Government's new social security scheme, Programme for Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), is fully implem

Economy will affect New Year's partying
IT MAY yet be early days but the list of events planned to usher in the New Year provides slim pickings for patrons. In addition, a few promoters insist that they have chiselled their expectations to match the dismal economy.

Angel visits AIDS survivors
COMING FROM the other side of the world in Rotorua, New Zealand, Brian Bark had fallen in love with Jamaica, and wanted to keep coming here....However it was the children dying of AIDS at the Good Shepherd Hospice in Montego Bay who had touched his heart.

Tax jumpers, beware!
RECENT MEASURES to rein in 'tax skipping' professionals and tradesmen may be fast-tracked through Parliament under the Government's new thrust to increase the revenue from local tax collection.