A company that offers emergency air-ambulance service to Jamaicans looking to go overseas for medical treatment believes it has the solution to the security breakdown involving medical records in some hospitals across the island.

The offensive smell of faeces hung like a thick dark cloud over the Corporate Area community residents call 'Frog City' but which could easily be called 'Filth City'. The community, located off Maxfield and Chisholm avenues, is correctly known as Ricketts Crescent but for anyone familiar with the area, it is 'Frog City'.

Sitting at the foot of Warieka Hills in East Kingston just off Mountain View Avenue is a community correctly named Hampstead Park but, for everyone, the area is known as Back Bush. It is a marginalised squatter community that has been scarred by violence for years.

Depositors in the failed investment scheme Cash Plus Ltd have been running out of patience as they wait to hear words from the trustee in bankruptcy Hugh Wildman. But Wildman is not certain how soon money will be available to start making payments.

Last October, I wrote in this newspaper about a marvellously evocative railway journey I made from Spanish Town to Linstead on the newly restored passenger train service. Let me say, first of all, how pleased I am that this service has been maintained up to now. It is a first, symbolic step towards the restoration of the entire Jamaican railway system.

London's theatre industry is increasingly confident that culture won't suffer during a summer devoted to celebrating sports. West End producers had been apprehensive that the 2012 London Olympics could deter people from travelling to London or visiting its central entertainment district at the height of the summer tourist season.