Street people report ready
WESTERN BUREAU: THE LONG-AWAITED report from the Commission of Enquiry into the forced removal of 32 people from the streets of Montego Bay over a year ago, has been completed and is to be handed to the Governor-General this afternoon.

14 given JNBS awards
WESTERN BUREAU: FOURTEEN CHILDREN, one from each parish, who are among the top performers in the GSAT examinations, have been awarded scholarships from the Jamaica National Building Society's Scholarship Awards programme.

JPSCo to cut staff
THE JAMAICA Public Service Co. Ltd. (JPSCo), expects to fork out $850 million in redundancy payments as it cuts just under 400 people from its staff by December this year. A total of 355 of the nearly 2,000 JPSCo employees have opted for voluntary...

SRC, Shipping Association to develop Waste Reception Facility
THE SCIENTIFIC Research Council (SRC) and the Shipping Association of Jamaica are collaborating to develop a Waste Reception Facility for the Port of Kingston and its immediate environs. "The facility will seek to manage the treatment of oily and solid..

Minibus operator loses appeal
THE COURT of Appeal has thrown out an appeal by a minibus operator who sought to upgrade a partial payment of $100,000 to an accident victim in 1990 to its value of $621,000 in April 1997 based on the Consumer Price Index. Audrey Wilson had appealed a...