Shawn Batchelor, The Gleaner's deputy production coordinator/-graphic artist, receives his prize after being declared winner of the Best Newspaper Cover Design award. - Peta-Gaye Clachar/Staff Photographer

The 174-year-old Gleaner Company basked in glory at the Press Association of Jamaica Journa-lism Awards last Friday, walking away with five honours.

The swanky affair was hosted at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.

Kudos to the newspaper's enterprise team which grabbed the top prize, the President's Award for investigative journalism. The winning entry was 'Policemen back auto-theft ring', a series of articles unearthing police complicity in crime.

Awards

Norman Grindley, Shawn Batchelor, Las May and Ian Boyne were respective winners in the categories, Errol Harvey Award for Human Interest Photography; Best Cover Design for Newspaper; Livingston McLaren Award for Cartoons; and Morris Cargill Award for Opinion Journalism.

Grindley's submission was 'Hope River Crossing'; Batchelor designed 'Golden Glory', a wrap which captured the spirit of Jamaica's achievement at the 2008 Beijing Olympics..

Cleverly juxtaposed

May's lampoon, featuring a perplexed pregnant schoolgirl protesting to a pastor her right to abortion, was cleverly juxtaposed with the Church's inattention to rampant murder in the wider society.

Boyne, columnist in The Sunday Gleaner's In Focus section, was hailed for topical commentary on dancehall.

Acting Photography Editor Norman Grindley's entry highlighting the dislocation and ensuing entrepreneurship after the destruction wreaked by Tropical Storm Gustav won him PAJ glory. Here a woman grimaces as a resident gives her a piggyback across the Hope River in Harbour View, St Andrew, on September 1 for a fee of $200.

Left: Las May's winning cartoon entry. Right: The inimitable Las May

Ian Boyne received the Morris Cargill Award for Opinion Journalism. He previously won the award in 2004 and 2006.