Squatters beware! - $500 fine jumps to $500,000
SQUATTERS AND praedial thieves beware! The House of Repre-sentatives yesterday passed amendments to the Trespass Act increasing the fine for squatting from $500 to a whopping $1/2 million.

Chlorine leak sparks protest
WESTERN BUREAU: POLICE IN Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland were kept busy on the streets in that town up to late yesterday as they tried to prevent residents from returning to the streets in protest over fumes escaping from chlorine cylinders buried in the..

Caribbean birds at risk

The following is the second in a three-part essay on birdlife on the island.

ONLY 12 of the estimated 28 species of parrots present when Columbus arrived remain in the Caribbean today.

Why I am proud to be Jamaican

The following essay by Tricia Harris, 15, of Titchfield High School in Portland, won first prize in the 15-18 age category in the recent Hope Partners National Essay Competition.

Toxic substance leaks at UHWI
SEVERAL BOTTLES of disinfectant containing a highly toxic substance - phenol, stored at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), have been leaking fumes into the environment for at least two days, hospital administrators confirmed yesterday. ...