Free Media Pioneer Award winner named
ON MONDAY, 'World Press Freedom Day', the International Press Institute (IPI) announced it has decided to honour the Central Asian and Southern Caucasian Freedom of Expression Network (CASCFEN) with its 2004 Free Media Pioneer Award.

Bruce 'under fire'
CHAIRMAN OF the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Bruce Golding is said to be coming "under fire" from his party colleagues, who reportedly have been chiding him for "walking back into the party and talking too much."

Transport Authority urges taxi operators to get stickers
THE TRANSPORT Authority is urging associations of route taxi operators still without their colour coded stickers to go and get them at the agency's four regional offices.

Hundreds of cell phones taken from prisoners
THE NEW strategy implemented in local penal institutions has so far resulted in the seizure of 299 cellular phones following a series of searches conducted at four of the island's prisons since January.

Principal calls for student code
SPALDINGS, Clarendon: PRINCIPAL OF the Spaldings High School in Clarendon, Alphansus Davis, has called for a national code of conduct to be implemented for students islandwide.

Lack of water causes major damage
MANDEVILLE, Manchester; SOME THIRTY persons are now out of jobs and millions of dollars went up in smoke as yet another factory was razed due to the inadequate supply of water in Mandeville.

Businessman freed of charges
A HANOVER businessman who had been given a seven-month prison sentence for unlawful possession of US$65,000 had his sentence overturned in the Court of Appeal on Monday.