'Charley' crop damage set at $88m
THE RURAL Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) reported yesterday that the preliminary estimates of the value of damage to agricultural crops and livestock in the four parishes worst affected by Hurricane Charley last week is $88.4 million.

Lotto fever sweeps nation
THE LOTTO 'bug' has see-mingly bitten the nation, as the ever-increasing jackpot, which now stands tall at a record-breaking $100 million, has even unconventional persons giving themselves a chance.

UK quashes J'can's asylum plea - Woman fears Kingston gunmen will murder her if she returns
JOAN SHURLAND, a 45-year-old Jamaican woman who fled to Britain years after armed thugs murdered her son and shot her in the head, has been told she must return to Kingston despite fears that she will be murdered by gunmen.

Economic targets on track - Inflation estimates low, GDP up by three per cent
JAMAICANS CAN breathe a sigh of relief about the state of the economy for the time being, according to a recent review by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ).

Notice wants troops in Sp Town
SPANISH TOWN: Mayor Dr. Raymoth Notice is calling for a military intervention in the crime-ridden town, where at least 12 persons were murdered in four days.