Lead Stories
Street people go to Gordon House

SEVENTEEN STREET people from Montego Bay were allowed into the House of Representatives yesterday, after the Opposition questioned the earlier action of the police in barring them. Mike Henry, JLP MP, Clarendon Central, raised the matter, as the...

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Setback on hanging
Gov't wants refund for undelivered guns
Poverty on the rise
Junor bats for breastfeeding
Rhodes Scholar warden sheds light on scholarship

News
North Coast Highway to re-start by month-end
WESTERN BUREAU: THE MUCH-DELAYED Northern Coastal Highway should be back on track before month-end, its mid-August resumption date having been missed again.

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4 hurt as lightning hits Air J plane
Nursing Council says midwifery school is illegal
Guns, ammo find
Government to regularise horse racing industry

Business
Mechala deal challenged

THE MATALON-CONTROLLED Mechala Group Jamaica, whose financial restructuring was approved by the Supreme Court earlier this year and saw holders of its debt paid a reduced sum in lieu of their investment in bonds valued at US$100 million, is being...

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JF Mills payment questioned
US$2.75m for Navy Island
The rules of an insurance claim
JMMB looks to Trinidad

Sport
Samuels gets WI call up

JAMAICAN middleorder batsman Marlon Samuels earned his first invitation to the West Indies senior team when he was named in a squad of 14 to represent the region in an International Cricket Council (ICB) knock-out tournament in Kenya next month.

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Ottey deserves a chance - manager
Sotomayor comes under criticism
Black River shock Munro 1-0
Dev quits as Indian coach

Commentary
HIV/AIDS being ignored
THE REGION'S health care professionals who attended the two-day conference on HIV/AIDS in Barbados, on Monday heard a plea from one of their colleagues for governments to improve the care and support for persons with the deadly disease. Dr. James...

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That Vatican document
Rescuing the inner cities
On fighting crime

Letters
Collective effort needed to fight crime
THE EDITOR, Madam: THE MEMBERS of the Presidents Council of PSOJ, Peter Moses, Bill Clarke, James Samuels, Andrea Graham, Clarence Clarke, Beverley Lopez, Anthony Chang and Neville Ying, are eight of our best loved Jamaican brothers and sisters. They...

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Special police unit needs emotional, material support
Economic malaise and crime-fighting
New Zealand women on top
Young bowlers fail to make the grade

Entertainment
Ricky Trooper sets up sound system

SINCE LEAVING Killaman-jaro, sound system selector Ricky Trooper has set up his own sound system - Sound Trooper. He has described as absurd an Internet notice which alleges that the sound does not belong to him, but was given to him to operate by...

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Marching band to receive instruments

Star Page
Beenie Man diss-up NY Mayor

BEENIE Man had a special invective message for New York's Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his police force on Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway last week Monday. It was delivered in the Jamaican vernacular which probably meant neither the Mayor nor his...

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Brothers 202 not out
Of whack albums and nerdy go-gos
Get smart girls, lots of good guys are there

Profiles in Medicine
Multiple Sclerosis

MANY YOUNG people who are stricken with the neurological disorder, multiple sclerosis (MS), find themselves paralysed and bedridden in the prime of their academic or career lives. Frequently, persons between 20 and 45 are affected by this condition which.

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Athlete's foot
Health Trends