Minimum returns - Stretching the dollar to meet basic needs
THE RECENT 20 per cent hike in the minimum wage means nothing to 30-year-old Dorothy Merchantwho has worked as a household helper since she was 17 years old. She says unless her employer gets a pay increase, she will not be taking home...

Returning order to Spanish Town
IF THE Spaniards had invaded Spanish Town in 2004 they would have encountered far fiercer opposition than what the indigenous Tainos put up in the early 16th Century, when the first Europeans settled what was then St. Jago de la Vega.

Four caught in ganja bust
WESTERN BUREAU: FOUR MEN who were caught offloading containers laden with a large amount of ganja at the Sangster International Airport on Friday night were arrested and charged with four counts each of breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act.

St Andrew South - Amos hopeful
LAST YEAR was a tough one for police in the St. Andrew South division. Some 242 of the 1,145 murders recorded in Jamaica in 2004 took place there and most of the illegal guns recovered were taken from its streets.

'We will survive, despite the hardships' - Mixed feelings regarding future of Old Capital
UNPRECEDENTED GANG warfare alongside extensive commercial development helped make Spanish Town, St. Catherine perhaps the most dynamic community in Jamaica in 2004.