Lead Stories
Spending spree - Gov't puts up $200m for housing, work programmes
THE GOVERNMENT is to spend $100 million on a Christmas work programme and a further $100 million on indigent housing during the first quarter of 2001, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson announced in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr. Patterson said..

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Grants Pen, Standpipe for development initiative
Uproar over Crowne Plaza sale
Firemen complete week of activities
Munroe wants Senate to support Labour Relations Code

News
Land mix-up to cost the Gov't $13m
THE GOVERNMENT has been forced to fork out about $13 million to compensate a construction company because of a mix-up at the Ministry of Environment and Housing over the development of a housing project which never got off the ground.

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Clarke lashes IDT
Estimate of bank's damage uncertain
Miller: a sense of crisis exists

Business
Debit card charges rising
NATIONAL COMMERCIAL Bank (NCB) customers will start paying a fee each time they use their debit card to pay utility and other bills over the telephone from January 2001. NCB's Card Centre manager for customer services and authorisation Claudette...

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Big firms but not big profits
Lesson in Leadership confab coming
'FINSAC-friendly' board for LoJ
Credibility crucial says BoJ's Latibeaudiere

Sport
Harbour View clip Paradise 1-0
HARBOUR View made it two wins from two games in Group Two of the CONCACAF (Football Confederation) Club Championships by clipping Paradise of Barbados 1-0 in the feature game of a doubleheader at the Harbour View Mini-Stadium last night. A 57th minute...

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Kickers meet Village
Skerritt lashes out at 'fixing' report
D. Town, N. Manley triumph

Commentary
The cocaine threat
INDEPENDENT SENATOR Professor Munroe, has painted an even wider canvas than our Sunday Gleaner exposé implicating policemen in drug trafficking. The Senator's Friday night speech pointed to the effects of the cocaine threat arising from an influx..

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Where have we gone wrong?
Samfie electronic voting
He held you up with what?

Letters
Letter of the Day - The external threat
THE EDITOR, Madam: I COULDN'T agree more with Professor Munroe. Even the drug dons and criminals in our society who love to think of themselves as Jamaicans, must be made to see that if "Out of Many One People," does not appeal to them now, we are going.

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Caribbean voters and the US elections
Hope for proper roads
A solution to quell fear of Crime Stop callers
No excuse for sin

Entertainment
Short story writers receive cash awards

PAULETTE BURNETT and Michael Reckord, both 'highly commended' for their entries, The Auction and Help respectively, in this year's Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Competition, received cash awards in a short ceremony, held at Terra Nova.

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Stella Maris stages superb season

Profiles in Medicine
East meets West

Complementary medicine, for some time now, has been standing on the steps of the kitchen door, waiting for the chance to be invited in by the medical establishment.

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Low salt, not no salt
Nutritious pumpkin

Star Page
An even break ... for Old Harbour Fish Festival

THE PROMOTERS of the Old Harbour Bay Fish and Bammy Festival, held last Sunday, are likely to break even after the final figures are calculated. The event, endorsed by the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), had a budget of $2 million and attracted at least...

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Many bad experiences