NEWSMAKER: MAUREEN WEBBER - Off the front line
MAUREEN WEBBER was in no mood to talk politics last week. But ever since news broke nine days ago that she planned to step down as deputy general secretary of the People's National Party (PNP), she has been forced to face the music.

Youth focus group ranks police efforts
A PIONEERING focus group project has seen youths rank their local police stations, marking them from 0-10. Conducted last year, the Police-Youth Relations group discussion focus groups were operated under the Jamaica Social Policy Evaluation Unit...

Pentecostals snub appeal to prevent Catholic bashing
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC): THE PENTECOSTAL Assemblies of the West Indies says it will not support a call for the St. Lucia Government to introduce legislation to deal with criticism against the Roman Catholic Church.

No security beef-up at Glenhope after death
NO INTERIM measures to beef up safety at the Glenhope Place of Safety have been put in place by the Child Development Agency (CDA). Earlier this month, two-year-old Joel Wong died in hospital after ingesting medication that was not prescribed for him....

ICON - The man from 'Shanty Town'
LAST FRIDAY, two days after pioneer ska singer Desmond Dekker's death, a vox pop on the Nationwide radio show revealed that not many young Jamaicans knew who he was. Dekker died in London, reportedly from a heart attack at the age of 64.

1970'S FLASHBACK - The media and Michael Manley
ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1979, Prime Minister Michael Manley led a march on the North Street office of the Gleaner Company, for what he said was the newspaper's misrepresentation of a speech he gave at the Non-Aligned Summit Conference in Havana, Cuba....

Councils split over gun ban at meetings
HECKLING AND heated debates have become hallmarks of politically explosive parish council meetings and proposals for a gun ban have again stirred up a firestorm. Last week, Milton Brown, Mayor of May Pen, revealed that he was moving...