Son may miss dad's funeral

WESTERN BUREAU: ALL EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Roosevelt Ashani Douglas wants to do is to kiss his father good-bye.

Alfred Chen's last moments

WESTERN BUREAU: OFFICERS FROM the Civil Aviation Authority, Kingston, yesterday combed the helicopter wreckage and crash site at which Alfred Chen, JLP deputy general secretary, parish councillor and candidate for Trelawny South, suffered fatal injuries.

225 jobs go as cigar plant closes
CIGAR-MAKER CIFUENTES Y Cia yesterday said it was closing its plant on Washington Boulevard, Kingston, with the loss of 225 jobs, as it shifts production to the Dominican Republic, where labour costs are an estimated 70 per cent cheaper. At the height...

'Nothing achieved has been without God's help'

MRS. YVONNE Rodney has been teaching at Rousseau Primary School since September 1986. She is one of the four Master Teachers in Region 1, St. Andrew. To qualify, teachers must have given many years to the profession with notable successes but want to...

Jamaica is ageing
Cast me not off in time of old age: Forsake me not when my strength faileth. Psalm 71:9. THE PHYSIOLOGICAL reasons for ageing and the complex medical explanation for this process is not necessarily known by the non-medical citizenry, but what is known are