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Portrait of a pensive Fae Ellington.

"A Young Cavity Fighter renders her item on the programme at the Cavity Fighters Club's Day at Coconut Park recently, watched by thousands of her fellow club members and emcee Neville Willoughby."

"Everything goes in the construction of these dwellings - from rusty sheets of zinc for roofing, bamboo-lattices and flattened barrel sides -a t the York Town squatter settlements - unit for human occupation. This the Housing Ministry recognises, and…

"Better days and cleaner, healthier surroundings is the dream of this man, his and his neighbours' children who surround him by his dilapidated ramshackle hut on a 4.9 acre squatter site in York Town, Clarendon. The Housing Ministry is planning for…

"Clearly this is bad and something must be done about it, the quicker, the better is the consensus among Housing Minister Tony Spaulding [left] Sites and Services Director, Clive Laidley [centre] and Youth and Community Development Minister, Hugh…

"Shopping by car? Damage to the York Pharmacy in Half-Way-Tree was put at over $2,000 Wednesday after a motorcar got out of control and crashed through the show windows.

Three people, including two schoolgirls were injured as a result, and were…

"Where is the road? This is the Yallahs River in spate yesterday - a day and a half after Tuesday's torrential showers. The fording, which normally enable the scores of vehicles plying between Kingston and St. Thomas and through the Portland, is…

"Yallahs fording flooded during October 1974 flood rains."

"Air Jamaica recently installed an x-ray scanner at the Norman Manley International Airport, to help speed up operations at the security check-point. For the exclusive us of Air Jamaica passengers, the scanner will see if there are any weapons or…