Blood shortage critical
THE LIVES of two critical cancer patients at the Hargreaves Hospital in Mandeville, Manchester, now hang in the balance for want of blood. Desperate for O positive blood, doctors on Monday night appealed to the Mandeville Regional Hospital's Blood...

Quick Cash head pleads guilty
WESTERN BUREAU PYRAMID SCHEME operator Doris Dale, who ran the collapsed Quick Cash partner plan in Lucea, Hanover, yesterday pleaded guilty to breaches of the Financial Institutions Act and was fined $3 million or six months in prison.

ADA seeks exemption of NGOs from paying GCT
THE ASSOCIATION of Development Agencies (ADA), an umbrella group representing 13 non-governmental organisations (NGOs ), has appealed to the Government to make NGOs exempt from paying the General Consumption Tax (GCT). ADA co-ordinator, Simeon...

Calm returns to western Kingston
CALM HAS returned to Kingston's troubled west end following several days of gun violence among rival gangs, according to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Edsell Scott. The crime officer for the Kingston Western Police Division said yesterday that...