Lead Stories
Nomination Day - Parties step up campaigning in North East St Ann by-election
THE ISLAND'S three major political parties have revved up their campaign for the March 8 by-election in the St. Ann North East constituency with major meetings planned for before and after the candidates hand in their papers today, Nomination Day, at...

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Government to tackle obscenity
NY education board recognises patois as separate language
JLP calls for probe of St Ann road contracts - Accuses PNP of awarding work unfairly to activists
JTA preparing to mount legal challenge to Gov't
JDF Coast Guard struggling to contain illegal fishing
Nicholson wants bipartisan approach to Weapons Bill debate

News
'Don't isolate HIV/AIDS students' - Whiteman urges school principals, administrators and teachers

SENATOR BURCHELL Whiteman, Minister of Education and Culture, has urged school principals, administrators and teachers not to discriminate against students infected with HIV/AIDS. The minister who was addressing educators and other stakeholders in the...

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Search intensifies for men abducted in St Mary
Prayer Breakfast to honour MoBay cops
St. Ann residents call for violence-free by-election
Rattray calls for committee to visit prisons

Business
PM proposes opening up of Finance C'mttee to media

GOVERNMENT MEMBERS of Parliament yesterday supported a Prime Ministerial proposal to increase transparency in the decisions on state finances by opening the Standing Finance Committee of Parliament to the scrutiny of the news media.

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Employment agencies urged to get registered

Sport
Gayle, Garrick stand tall

JAMAICA, fuelled by a glorious, magnificent record-breaking first-wicket partnership of 425 between Christopher Gayle and Leon Garrick, were speeding towards victory when the third day's play in the Busta Series cricket match against the West Indies B...

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Waterhouse cool Tivoli Gardens
Black Stars close in on semi spot
World best 200m for Campbell
Leewards in driver's seat

Commentary
Hurrah for justice
POLITICS MORE than justice may be the main motivation in the continuing debate over the Caribbean Court of Justice. There was little of a sense of history-in-the-making with the signing in Barbados last week of the agreement setting in motion the...

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CCJ: still time to think
Nature, God and African values

Letters
Letter of the Day In defence of the Bar association
THE EDITOR, Madam: MR. OWEN CROSBIE'S letter of February 14, 2001 published as your Letter of the Day contains several inaccuracies which I now seek to correct.

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The dignity and depravity of humanity
Good Samaritans
Mismanaging education

Entertainment
J'can director working with Hollywood stars

JAMAICANS ARE making their marks on Hollywood and Dianah Wynter is one who is doing so in a big way. She's a top flight director with a string of impressive credits. But despite the successes she has had in the land of the stars, she keeps Jamaica...

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When two worlds meet
Finding soulmates

Flair
Lisa Lindo, iron lady

A POWDERY mist settles lightly in the valley as a hazy sun forces its way slowly over the hills. The air is damp, with a chill, sharp wind and heavy with the smell of rotting leaves and the bitter pungency of cedar. She stares dazedly over...

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The stink and sweet of fatherhood
Facing up to blotches, bags, sags and wrinkles

Star Page
Wolmer's Girls brush aside Guys' Hill

WOLMER'S Girls' school took the final preliminary match in the School Challenge Quiz 2001 series, when they defeated Guys' Hill High at Television Jamaica, Half-Way Tree last Thursday. The Kingston based girls were never given a challenge as they...

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Cynthia Schloss song book
Let children attend school