ACCESS DENIED! Given the runaround - Still no answers
WE TRIED to get answers to our questions, this time by way of interviews at the Ministry of Justice. The minister, we were told this week, was either not in or in meetings. A pleasant voice in his office said, "Have you tried the permanent secretary?"

ACCESS DENIED - What are they hiding?
THE ISSUE of the judges' salaries is not the only bitter taste of access denied, request ignored or distorted. One Government agency, totally ignoring our request to view documents, sent us a ton of verbiage...

NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY WEEK - Acting Assistant Superintendent Samuel Wright Recalls horrors of Maxfield Avenue blaze
FIREFIGHTERS ARE taught to be brave. They know their jobs could take them into the jaws of death every time they respond to an emergency call. They hope to always save lives, but they brace themselves for the worst.

PAC chides Electoral Office for wasting money
PARLIAMENT'S PUBLIC Accounts Committee (PAC) criticised the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ), on Tuesday, for not exercising financial prudence in its decision to conduct further valuations on a property.

LaTouche says police tardy in crime fight
PERCIVAL LATOUCHE, president of the Returning Residents Association, has blamed police tardiness for the growth in organised attacks, including murders, against returning residents.

Ramcharan, Williams appeal extradition orders
MONTEGO BAY businessmen Leebert Ramcharan and Donovan 'Plucky' Williams have filed several grounds of appeal asking the Court of Appeal to have their extradition orders overturned.

PM could miss youth awards again
FOR THE third consecutive year, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson could be absent from the Prime Minister's Youth Awards function. According to the director of the National Centre for Youth Development, Ohene Blake...