Emergency services receive Cricket World Cup training
WITH THE upcoming Cricket World Cup 2007 roughly nine months away, the emergency services are now even more prepared to deal with any emergency situation that may arise. This is as a result of the completion of the month-long...

GSAT PERFORMER: SHARI ROWE - Bee champ abuzz with brilliance
EVERYONE DESCRIBES her as quiet, unassuming and shy. Yet, no one doubted her success or was surprised at her achievement. At 12, Shari Rowe has hit the double: She is The Gleaner/Children's Own 2006 Spelling Bee champion for Westmoreland...

Government of Jamaica to hunt spaces for Priory students
THE MINISTRY of Education and Youth says it will begin finding school spaces for more than 200 students at Priory School, St. Andrew, in the 2006-07 academic year, following a decision to close the school by 2008.

'I am extremely outraged!'
The following are letters com-menting on the reported sexual molestation of a schoolgirl in a van being driven by a church deacon. How can such behaviour be justified? THE EDITOR, Sir: I thought I had heard or seen just about every level of insanity...

Dayton Avenue church responds to girl's violation
IT IS necessary to correct a number of inaccuracies that have been carried in the press surrounding the violation of a schoolgirl in a vehicle driven by a deacon. The Church Dayton has at no time during its 43 years existence condoned or promoted...

Inmate confessed to Jamaicans' murder, court told
LONDON, England: THE OLD Bailey Criminal Court has heard that the man accused of killing seven-year-old Toni-Ann Byfield and Bertram Byfield, both Jamaicans, admitted to a fellow prison inmate that he had committed the murders.