Stopping traffic - PACT completes training of peer educators - Students expected to boost awareness about human trafficking
The awareness of human trafficking among Jamaicans is expected to increase significantly as People's Action for Community Transformation (PACT) has trained students as peer educators. The peer educators are expected to carry the anti-trafficking messages and warnings to their friends...

Farm-work programme a blessing to Jamaican families
For the last 24 years, Fitzgerald Cameron has been a part of the Government's overseas employment programme. This trip means more to him now than ever because he is relying on the money to put his daughter through college...

Celebrity sightings on the increase for blood drive
There were many famous faces present at Kingston's blood bank as Scotiabank marked its annual blood drive. Bruce Bowen, president and chief executive officer of the Scotiabank Group, addressed a group including Tami Chynn, Tessanne Chin and Shaggy, there to lend support...

Local gov't will not stand on its own just yet
GOVERNMENT SAYS it will miss its September 2009 deadline for making local government autonomous of central government. Responding to questions from South East St Catherine Member of Parliament Colin Fagan during Tuesday's evening's sitting of Parliament's...

Davies calls Budget unreal
OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN on Finance Dr Omar Davies has warned that the Government might run itself into trouble by underestimating the amount it plans to spend on some items this fiscal year.Davies, while commenting on the allocation for public cleansing...

Teachers' retro pay unsure
THERE IS growing unease among teachers in the education sector as reports surface that retroactive money which is due for payment this month may not be paid. Finance and Public Service Minister Audley Shaw told The Gleaner yesterday that he could not comment on the matter...

Nearly a million Jamaicans on stolen land
THE NUMBER of Jamaicans living in squatter settlements across the island could soon rush past the one million mark, with one-third of the population, or about 900,000 persons, occupying lands illegally. Concerns were raised during yesterday's sitting of...

No more! - Residents of Greenwich Town call for an end to the violence
"We can't bear much more," was the repeated sentiment of residents of the southwest St Andrew community of Greenwich Town yesterday morning after two shooting incidents in less than an hour. Their comments came as a 19-year-old girl left the area...

Thursdaytalk - Hottest topics on the cocktail circuit
Opposition reshuffle. 1. Some in the Opposition are now asking for a reshuffle of the various spokespersons to reflect the Government's realities....