Knight accepts chairmanship of G77
FOREIGN AFFAIRS Minister K.D. Knight on Tuesday accepted on behalf of the Government of Jamaica, the mantle of Chairmanship of the Group of 77 (G77) and China for 2005. "This is a tremendous responsibility which Jamaica undertakes with a deep sense of...

Plea bargaining law to be tabled soon
THE GOVERNMENT is to table plea bargaining legislation in Parliament, within a month, in an effort to jail the 'kingfish' operatives behind Jamaica's major criminal networks.

Golding calls for renewed debate on regional federation
WEEKS BEFORE Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago proceed with the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), Senator Bruce Golding, Opposition spokesman on foreign affairs and foreign trade, has challenged the government to reopen the debate on...

Novel on J'can immigrants wins second literary prize
LONDON (AP): A NOVEL about the lives of Jamaican immigrants in post-war Britain has achieved an unprecedented double in Britain, adding the Whitbread Book of the Year award to an earlier prize for women's fiction.

Diplomats honoured
THE KIWANIS Club of Kingston honoured several members of the Diplomatic Corps at a luncheon held at the Hilton Kingston Hotel on Tuesday in its Diplomatic Week tribute.

Witness heard shots from inside house
GUNSHOTS WERE fired from both inside and outside the house in Braeton, St. Catherine, where seven young men were fatally shot four years ago, a civi lian witness said yesterday.