Lead Stories
PM to meet private sector heads

PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson, expected home today from a two-week vacation, is set to meet with private sector heads on Friday in a bid to discuss strategies and calm their fears over current crime levels. Over the past week, business leaders have...

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Education Ministry stands firm
Local tyre dealers in the clear
IDB training workshop launched
USAID committed to sustainable tourism
$40m to start libraries at schools

News
Sidewalks to be fixed
SEVERAL PLANTER boxes constructed on the sidewalks of some Corporate Area streets under the Government's Urban/Renewal and Upgrading Programme are to be demolished. The boxes have been described as hazards to pedestrians.

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Crime feasting on Returning Residents
Whiteman upbeat for new school term
Youth to benefit from Optimist programmes
Role of community colleges lauded

Business
Netserv to pay just $10,000 a month
NETSERV, ONE of three information technology firms invited to set up call centres in Jamaica as part of the Minister of Industry, Investment & Commerce Phillip Paulwell's push to bring 40,000 jobs to Jamaica within three years, plans to pay around...

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Prices rise 1 per cent in July
Pressure mounts on Ja dollar
JNBS goes overseas with Net plans

Sport
Sutton, Begay share honours
MONTEGO BAY - SHELL'S Wonderful World of Golf showdown between top American golfers Hal Sutton and Notah Begay III ended in an 18-hole stalemate at the spanking new Ritz-Carlton White Witch course at Rose Hall yesterday.

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Expect a Special Envoy
Tivoli have high hopes
Jamaica College ­ hoping to go one better
Camperdown among favourites
Norman Manley off to slow start

Commentary
Dangerous sidewalks
THE FRONT page photograph in yesterday's Gleaner showing gaping holes in a sidewalk is a graphic illustration of government stupidity ­ and dangerous stupidity at that. For this, believe it or not, is part of a project called the Urban Renewal and..

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Controlling criminality
Education and crime
In sickness and in death (Part II) - Through the 20th Century with the Gleaner
Citizens anti-crime coalition needed

Letters
Crime and its roots
THE EDITOR, Madam: READING BUTCH Stewart's address to the Rotary Club, I see that I no longer qualify as a friend, as he indicates that all his friends have either left Jamaica or plan to leave ­ including himself. This is indeed sad, but I have to.

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Marketing intelligence and the creation of wealth
Jamaica needs educational television
Vasciannie's fair-mindedness
Attorney on the Kirschhoch mystery

Entertainment
Barrington Levy gives masterful performances

WESTERN BUREAU: BARRINGTON LEVY, Coco Tea and Capleton ruled supreme at the event dubbed 'Roots Rock' last weekend in Negril. Although there was a lot of pushing and exposure to pick- pockets in an attempt to enter the venue, the thousands of...

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'The Art Of War': a fast paced action thriller

Profiles in Medicine
Kissing away your health
Not many people realise that it takes one kiss from an infected person to get a form of the herpes virus, and this version of the virus can be spread to the genitals during oral sex.

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Giving women more control
Back-to-school blues

Star Page
Reggae gospel all the rage

IN previous years, reggae gospel was condemned by lovers of so-called traditional gospel and even discouraged in churches. Today, reggae gospel, in particular dancehall style, has withstood the criticism to become popular among young Christians.

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Miriam satisfied at 100