weeks after he was released from prison. "Westgate ain't taken care of me -- it doesn't take care of anyone,'' Marcel Frederick Sheppard told a Magistrate yesterday. ---- Page 2 CABBIES GIVEN WARNING TRA Cabbies given warning Taxi drivers will do themselves more harm than good if they arm themselves because their assailants will simply be better armed, top taxi driver George Scott warned yesterday. ---- Page 3 READING CONFERENCE PLANNED CON Reading conference planned Parents can join hundreds of educators from all over the Caribbean at the International Reading Association's Fifth Caribbean Regional Conference, which occurs in November at the Sonesta Beach Hotel. ---- Page 6 CAT NET PROFIT INCREASES BUC CAT net profit increases Property catastrophe reinsurer CAT Ltd.'s profits soared 40 percent to $49.6 million in 1995, the company said yesterday. And the company projects its net premiums earned this year will be about $132 million, up 21 percent over 1995.

---- Business, Page 10 MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD IS SAFE COM HTH Make sure your child is safe Are your children safe? Perhaps they are from bullies and sticks and stones.

But they may not be from diseases and risky illnesses like the measles, mumps, Rubella or whooping cough. ---- Community, Page 23 PAVIN INCLUDED IN SHOOT-OUT GLF Pavin included in Shoot-Out Corey Pavin will round out the field for next month's Shoot-Out after organisers yesterday abandoned a bid to lure rising golf star Tiger Woods to the championship at Mid-Ocean Gold Club. ---- Sport, Page 19