Jamaican-born selected as Rhodes Scholar in the United States
SASHA-MAE ECCLESTON, a Brown University senior from Lawrenceville, N.J. and a graduate of the NJ SEEDS programme, has been selected as a Rhodes Scholar for 2006. She was among 32 students selected nationwide.

A nostalgic trip
A TRIP to Wait-a-Bit in the yam-growing Cockpit Mountains of southern Trelawny in mid-November was an invigorating and instructive jaunt through the rural countryside. A balmy winter breeze and the muted strains of the Christmas carol...

Man charged with slaying 53-year-old
THREE WEEKS after the brutal slaying of 53-year-old returned resident Meretha Dawkins at her Orange Grove home at Knoxwood, St. Elizabeth, the police have made a breakthrough.

Jamaicans abroad are essential to Jamaica - Franklyn
CANADA: THE JAMAICAN community abroad is very essential to the Jamaican Government as the remittance sent annually outstrips bauxite, tourism and any other sector you can think of.

UN climate conference now on
APPROXIMATELY 10,000 representatives from 156 countries have assembled in Montreal, Canada, for the first United Nations Climate Change Conference since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997.

Company picks up tab for slain Jamaican cop's kids
TWO OF slain police officer Lascelles Walsh's children are the beneficiaries of a gesture by construction company, Halicon Holdings Limited, which will pay for the duration of their education at their respective schools.

Missing teens found in Savanna-la-Mar
WESTERN BUREAU: TWO TEENAGE girls from Johnson Town, Hanover, who were reported missing were found on Monday night by the police in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, and charged as juveniles in need of care and protection.