HOLY SMOKE! Legalise the weed, say church officials
AT LEAST one prominent official of the Jamaican Christian community has called for the legalisation of drugs -- starting with marijuana -- and he has received cautious support from other religious leaders.

We are not a cult, says Jehovah's Witnesses
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, who recently gained recognition as a religion under French law, say they are not a cult and that such allegations are taken seriously. The local co-ordinator for the Jehovah's Witnesses, Luther W. Georges, says the church is...

Chamber raps Council over market closure
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: THE ST. Catherine Parish Council has been criticised by the parish's chamber of commerce for its tardiness in allowing the Spanish Town market to be ordered closed because of the unsanitary conditions there.

Walsh tapped for Net fund-raiser

JAMAICA FOUNDATION for Cardiac Disease (JFCD) on Tuesday launched an international charity auction for 'An evening with Courtney Walsh', to procure a portable Echocardiogram machine to be used in the cardiac treatment programme