I expected it - Samtani
WESTERN BUREAU: After scoring 100 per cent in his most troublesome subject, communications task, and getting an overall average of 98.2 per cent, it was not surprising that Santosh Samtani received a government scholarship for his performance.

Ashleigh - a cut above the rest
WESTERN BUREAU: Of the almost two hundred students who sat the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) from the Catherine Hall Primary and Infant School, 12-year-old Ashleigh Campbell was the only student to receive a scholarship for her performance.

A cry from the streets
SEVENTY-FIVE-year-old Leopold Bartley is one of the many homeless persons roaming the streets of the Corporate Area struggling to survive. A Kingstonian, Bartley turned to the streets some four years ago. However, before things took a turn for the worse..

TYRONE'S WATCH - Patrick City - Pothole City
WHAT'S NOT WORKING: The roads in the community of Patrick City, off Washington Boulevard, St. Andrew, have been defaced by potholes. The situation in Patrick City is grave. There are potholes a plenty...

Pick pycnogenol - fountain of youth
AS PLANTS grow they produce substances designed to protect them from damage, from environmental agents like sunshine, wind, and a variety of toxins. Interestingly, these substances are primarily found in the bark, seeds, skin and ligneous parts...

The mating game
THE URGE to experiment is central to the human psyche. Whether, like Dr. Frankenstein we produce a monster, or like the French folk who played with milk and produced a Munster (cheese), the consequences are not as important to us as the challenge.

Keeping the beat behind bars
AS THE staff at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre set up the 'bandstand' for the recent reopening of the prison's hospital, bass player, Jaco Redding, warmed up for his latest gig by jamming to Taxi, Sly and Robbie's classic...

GSAT grades available for unverified students
THE MINISTRY of Education and Youth says it is continuing to release the grades of students whose Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) results had been withheld because they had not submitted birth certificates, and is urging parents to come...

FLANKERS MURDER TRIAL - Death car was stationary or slow-moving - expert
THE FLANKERS murder case entered its fourth week yesterday with ballistics expert Daniel Wray describing the bullet holes and bullet fragments he found in the motor car in which two senior citizens were fatally shot.