Jevene Bent becomes highest ranking female cop
SHE HAS made history several times but the highest ranking woman in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) remains humble.

Better irrigation system for West
THE MINISTRY of Water and Housing has signed a US$12 million supply contract for three projects under the National Irrigation Development Programme (NDP).

Gov't on target for water goal
WATER AND Housing Minister, Donald Buchanan has expressed optimism that the Ministry will meet its goal of providing all Jamaicans with access to potable water by 2005.

Nurses serve wage claim
THE ISLAND'S nurses are now among the number of public sector workers who are requesting that they be paid at 80 per cent of private sector market rate.

Media tourism confab in MoBay
WESTERN BUREAU: SENIOR WRITERS and editors from the Associated Press, BBC World Service, National Geographic Traveller Magazine, Washington Post and United Nations Radio, are in the island to exchange notes with their Caribbean counterparts at the Caribbe

Agricultural society seeks JN boost
THE WESTMORELAND branch of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) has approached the Jamaica National (JN) Foundation for assistance in procuring a cold storage for the proposed JAS market in Westmoreland.