Stray cow causes highway fatality
PATRICK HOWELL, a 24-year-old motorist, lost his life on Wednesday when his Toyota Levin motor car crashed into a cow that had strayed onto the Old Harbour bypass in St. Catherine. Police reports are that after hitting the cow Mr. Howell lost control...

New school desks falling apart
THE NEW furniture which Government started delivering to primary schools at the start of the school year in September, have begun falling apart, according to the Jamaica Teachers Association (JTA).

Children's rights take centre stage
A NEW PROGRAMME to promote children's rights was launched Thursday to coincide with the 14th anniversary celebration of the Jamaica Coalition for Rights of the Child (JCRC) and Universal Children's Day. The programme dubbed "Child Rights Awareness...

Woman dies in highway crash
CLARENDON: A MOTOR vehicle accident along the Winston Jones Highway on Thursday claimed the life of Julian Sterling, an employee of Charles Off Betting Limited at Race Course in Mandeville, Manchester.

Former JLP caretaker convicted of fraud
WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY businessman and former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) West Central St. James constituency caretaker, Anthony 'Tony Dillon' Lewin has been convicted for fraud and is to be sentenced in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's...

MP requests housing for constituents
ALEXANDRIA, St. Ann: MEMBER OF Parliament for South West St. Ann, Ernest Smith, has written to Prime Minister P.J. Patterson requesting that the Government assist in providing housing for residents in the constituency.