4,000 sugar jobs to go
APPROXIMATELY 4,000 workers will eventually lose their jobs as the Government closes two of the five publicly-owned sugar factories in an attempt to rationalise the ailing sugar industry.

'Wrong move, PM!' - Sugar bosses give Patterson stick
SECTOR LEADERS yesterday predicted doom and gloom for Jamaica's sugar industry, following Prime Minister P.J. Patterson's announcement that the country would focus on raw sugar production.

War zone - Gunfight shuts down Jones Town school
WHEN A trickle of children turned up at the St. Simon's Basic School in Jones Town yesterday morning, an eerie stillness hung over the deserted compound. Just a few hours earlier, rival gunmen from Benbow and Penn streets...

Nat'l Security Ministry wracks up $590m debt
THE MINISTRY of National Security yesterday revealed that its public entities owed suppliers $590 million in arrears as a result of inadequate funding from the Ministry of Finance.

Kraal-ing back - Adams, accused cops revisit death house
SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT Reneto Adams and the five policemen charged with the murder of four civilians visited the death house in Kraal, Clarendon, after the Supreme Court gave them the go-ahead.

Murders hit 1,362; central Kgn flares up
TWO WEEKS after a mother and her two sons were murdered in a tenement yard on Hanover Street, Kingston, three more persons were shot, one fatally, at the same premises yesterday.

Barbara Gloudon for environment management
JAMAICANS TOGETHER with the Government need to decide where development should and should not take place, says Gleaner Silver Pen winner Barbara Gloudon. The communications specialist and broadcaster's letter of July 12, was written in anguish...

Rosa Parks: 'She stood up by sitting down'
DETROIT (AP): FORMER UNITED States president Bill Clinton yesterday remembered the late civil rights icon Rosa Parks as "a woman of great courage, grace and dignity."