Westmoreland families need help to bury relatives
WESTERN BUREAU: STILL MOURNING the loss of their sons, the relatives of the six Westmoreland men who lost their lives in an accident along Gutters main road last Saturday face yet another challenge - they are not sure how they are going to pay...

Jamaican Government to mark abolition of slave trade
ON MAY 1,1807, the British Parliament passed a law abolishing slave trading in its colonies, ending almost 200 years of the transatlantic slave trade in the Americas. Two hundred years to the day, the Jamaican Government will recognise the milestone...

St Mary gets 27 Justices of the Peace
TWENTY-SEVEN new Justices of the Peace (JPs) were sworn in to serve the parish of St. Mary, during a ceremony held at the Port Maria Civic Centre on Tuesday, December 6.

The miracle in Point Hill
POINT HILL residents say it is nothing short of a miracle. And they speak in reverential tones of the day when a large, hefty boulder, dislodged from a nearby hill during a landslide...

No hard fillings
LADY ALICE Hillingdon, wife of the Second Baron (George) Hillingdon (1912), commenting on the status of her marital relations, is reputed to have said: "I am happy now that George calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old.

Seizure of illegal imports rises at customs in Jamaica
THE JAMAICA Customs Department is reporting an increase in the amount of illegal imports seized at the island's ports of entry for this year, in comparison to the previous year.

Christmas treat for the elderly
SEVEN HUNDRED children and 200 elderly citizens from Savanna-la-Mar and its environs in Westmoreland, will be hosted by the Westmoreland Parish Council at the Mayor's Christmas Treat at Independence Park in the town on December 21.

The public management in our changing times -- Part II - 'Your humble servant'
THROUGHOUT THE 1990s the challenges for the public sector employees in some CARICOM Caribbean countries, were exactly the same as the challenges for all others, at least to begin with.