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Glenford Bennett has been spinning trash into treasure for more than three decades and would love to pass on his craft-making skills to the next generation, but try as he might, he cannot beat the lure of a gun, which has been more successful in grabbing the interest of the youth around him. The Trench Town-based craftsman is disappointed with what he observes as the youth abandoning their creative talents for a life of crime. Speaking with The Gleaner from his 23 Third Street shop in the Kingston community on Monday, Bennett said finding a protégé or an apprentice was no easy feat. He wo...

Derrick Smith, a resident of Third Street in Trench Town, St Andrew, yesterday revelled at the reality that he now has a bed that he likened to a Jacuzzi. Until recently, Smith, who is known to his friends and neighbours as 'Jookie Jam' or 'Mr Colours', was living in deplorable conditions. However, thanks to the efforts of Trench Town-based charity Kino Life in Jamaica (The Dream Team), his situation has been vastly improved. "My house was refurbished about a month now. You should have seen the roof. It was very disgraceful. Di piece a bed mi did have in here, whenever time I lay on it, I wa...