'Ivan' task force - Danville Walker to spearhead recovery programmes
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson last night announced that Danville Walker, the director of elections, will be reassigned to head a special task force operating under the newly-announced Office of National Reconstruction...
Hotels battered
WESTERN BUREAU: HURRICANE IVAN devastated the world-famous Rick's Café, destroyed all 20 rooms at Tensing Pen, battered Mariner's Inn and ravaged Catch-a-falling Star in the resort town of Negril.
Valley of horror
THE SMALL town of Cave Valley in St. Ann has suddenly become a tourist attraction but for the wrong reason.
Some schools to resume
THE MINISTRY of Education, Youth and Culture is advising that schools that have not experienced significant damage be reopened today.
Gleaner celebrates 170th birthday
THE GLEANER, regarded as one of the leading sources of news in the western hemisphere, marked its 170th year of continuous publication yesterday.
Livestock industry badly hit
THE ISLAND'S agricultural sector has suffered a severe battering as a result of Hurricane Ivan, which hit the island less than one month after several farms, especially in Manchester and St. Elizabeth, were devastated by Hurricane Charley.
MoH pleads for blood, generator
THE MINISTRY of Health has launched an appeal for blood and a 30-40 KVA generator for the National Blood Transfusion Service.
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