Commish cops out - In 2 years, 2 police chiefs and 2 security ministers jump ship
Jamaica's Police Chief, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, has tendered his resignation to the Police Service Commission, ending weeks of speculation that a show-down with the Government was imminent, The Gleaner has learnt. While not coming as a shock exit...

Caught on camera - Surveillance system cuts school indiscipline - Massive water-bill savings as idling plunges
AT LEAST one school is trumpeting the success of surveillance cameras on its compound in its fight against undisciplined behaviour by students. Errol Bascoe, principal of Tacky High School in Gayle, St Mary, says since the installation of surveillance cams... ...

No longer 'Sufferers' - But Windsor Heights still plagued by road, water woes
The community of Windsor Heights has come a long way since it bore the inauspicious moniker, Sufferers' Heights, at its inception. Ornate concrete structures and paved main roads indicate the transformation from an era when board houses...

From squatters to homeowners
Many of the problems in Windsor Heights stem from the fact that it is still considered a squatter settlement. According to pronouncements from Minister of Housing Horace Chang, just over one million Jamaicans live in informal communities. A paper titled...

Windsor: hodgepodge of advances, backwardness
If one tries to study the community of Windsor Heights with a view of trying to pass an exam on uniformity, one might fail. Dismally. The community is a paradox of sorts. It has paved main roads, but adjoining lanes would make Edmund J. DeSmedt, the first man...

Latibeaudiere walk to top Cabinet talks
Cabinet is today expected to be presented with details of the circumstances that led to the resignation of Bank of Jamaica Governor Derick Latibeaudiere. A senior government official told The Gleaner that the matter will take centre stage at today's meeting...

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