Pay up or else! - Extortionists target 'cabbies' in Gordon Pen
TAXI OPERATORS plying the Gordon Pen to Spanish Town route say extortionists operating in the Gordon Pen community have started to 'tax' them.

Golden Spring residents decry bad roads
MEMBERS OF the Stock Farm Citizens Association in Golden Spring, St. Andrew, were told by Member of Parliament, Andrew Gallimore that a major road in their community which has not been fixed for 21 years would not be repaired any time...

Unsanitary Old Harbour market ordered closed
SPANISH TOWN: THE ST. Catherine Health Department has given verbal notice to the St. Catherine Parish Council for the closure of the Old Harbour market as of Monday because of the unsanitary conditions that now exist at the facility.

Civil servants to pay toll
GOVERNMENT TRAVELLING officers who used the toll roads while carrying out work assignments will have to do so at their own cost.

Prank calls frustrate firefighters
DAVE MCLAUGHLIN, senior deputy superintendent in charge of the St. Elizabeth Fire Brigade, has said that of the 190 calls to the department during the month of February, 20 of them were not genuine fire calls.

Gov't not impressed with electronic system
INFORMATION MINISTER Senator Burchell Whiteman said yesterday that electronic voting in other countries has failed to impress, and, therefore, government has no plans to bring such a system to this country.