Police hunt truck driver
Up to late yesterday, the police were still searching for the driver of the garbage truck which ran over and killed a newspaper vendor in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew hours earlier.
Trudy Simpson bags another award!
GV Media Group journalist Trudy Simpson has been named a winner of the fpa's (formerly Family Planning Association) Rosemary Goodchild Award for Excellence in Journalism, for the second straight year.
News briefs
Prime Minister Bruce Golding says the Government is in discussions with Cuba to source cheaper and better quality medication.
Knight sparks barbs in Senate
SHARP BARBS were a feature of Friday's sitting of the Senate and old-timer K.D. Knight was at the centre of it. Knight, who has taken a liking to Attorney General and Minister of Justice Dorothy Lightbourne, found himself on the receiving end of some harsh treatment from some government Senators after poking at her.
ACROSS THE NATION
The initial concept of commercialising breadfruit production bore fruit last Wednesday when the closing ceremony for the first leg of Northern Caribbean University's (NCU) Breadfruit Commercialisation Project was held at the Ministry of Agriculture's Orange River Research Station in Highgate, St Mary.
Changing of the guard - High school principal calls it a day after 13 years
The reins at the Guy's Hill High School in St Catherine will be handed over come September, as Principal Timothy Bailey will be going into retirement. His replacement will be Irwin Small.
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