In case you missed it here are the OBSERVER ONLINE’S top 10 stories for today: 1. Gov’t establishing $12-m Rastafarian Trust Fund The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport has transferred a total of $12 million to the Administrator General as Trustee to establish a Rastafarian Trust Fund.

2. Public defender urges greater care in selecting children’s homes staff Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry says that greater care needs to be taken in selecting individuals to work in State-run children’s homes. Harrison Henry made the recommendation against the background of the alarming incidents of sexual abuse of children in State care revealed last week by Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) and the United Nations Children’s Fund. 

3. Post-Cabinet press conferences to resume next WednesdayThe Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration is to resume post-Cabinet press briefings next Wednesday. The announcement from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information come amid several calls from the Press Association of Jamaica in recent months to resume the briefings. 

4. Kingston named Nearshore city of the year The city of Kingston has been named the Nearshore City of the Year for its performance in business process outsourcing (BPO). 

5. Entry denied A Jamaican woman has complained that she was made to feel like a prisoner after being denied entry into Trinidad and Tobago only days before the 39th regular meeting of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Heads of Government in Montego Bay, St James.  

6. Anger over charity auction of night in Mandela’s cell A charity that planned to auction a night in Nelson Mandela’s prison cell was locked in a bitter dispute today with the museum that maintains the historic site.  

7. Bangladesh’s spinners peg back Windies  Bangladesh’s spinners pegged the West Indies back with four wickets in the session although the hosts remained in command at 375 for seven in their first innings at tea on the second day of the first Test in Antigua today. 

8. Holness reaffirms Jamaica’s comittment to objectives of CARICOM Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who assumed the Chairmanship of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on July 1, has reaffirmed Jamaica’s commitment to the principal objectives of CARICOM. 

9. High cost of regional transportation ‘the greatest irritation’ – Antigua PM Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, has described the high cost of regional transportation as “the greatest irritation” to Caribbean citizens. 

10. Carreras commends JCF on another major cigarette bust Carreras Limited today commended the Counter Terrorism and Organised Branch (C-TOC) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) for its clamp down on the illegal cigarette trade, resulting in another major find and confiscation.