#O-WRAP: Asafa enters Guiness book… Pryce heads PNP youth initiative… Gov’t to introduce HPV vaccine
In case you missed it, here are OBSERVER ONLINE’s top 10 stories for today.
1. Asafa enters Guinness Book of World RecordsJamaican sprinter and former world 100 metre record holder Asafa Powell is now the holder of the Guinness World Record for most competitive 100 metre races completed in under10 seconds.
2. Arsonists targeting disposal sites, concern NSWMAExecutive Director of The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) Audley Gordon says he is very concerned about fires at the Authority’s Myersville disposal site.
3. PNP calls for clean-up of voters’ listOpposition People’s National Party (PNP) President Dr Peter Phillips is calling for a house-to-house verification programme to ensure the accuracy of the nation’s voters’ list.
4. Canada welcomes Jamaica’s agreement to international child abduction conventionThe High Commission of Canada has welcomed Jamaica’s joining of the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention.
5. Raymond Pryce leads initiative to improve PNP’s relationship with the youth Former DeputyGeneral Secretary of the People’s National Party (PNP) Raymond Pryce has reportedly been tasked with improving the party’s relationship with the youth.
6. Lottery scamming taking the lives of the ‘best and brightest’ – G2KThe youth affiliate of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Generation 2000 (G2K), says that “actions of the criminal elements involved in major crimes like lottery scamming and extortion are taking the lives of the best and brightest young people in Jamaica”.
7. UWI students benefitting from gov’t intervention to have fees paid by May 31The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has given assurance that all final-year students at the University of the West Indies (UWI) who were facilitated through the ministry’s intervention programme for financial assistance will be allowed to sit their exams.
8. Health Ministry to introduce HPV vaccineThe Ministry of Health intends to introduce a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine this year in the fight against cervical cancer.
9. N Korea warns of nuclear test ‘at any time’North Korea warned Monday that it will carry out a nuclear test “at any time and at any location” set by its leadership, in the latest rhetoric to fuel jitters in the region.
10. Caribbean fears over Cuba tourism may be misplaced – IMFThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) says fears by Caribbean countries that the opening up of United States-Cuba tourism could seriously impact the sector in the region “may be misplaced”.
