Lead Stories
Pilot work/study programme coming
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson yesterday announced a $50-million work/study programme that will see needy students in tertiary institutions earning up to 30 per cent of their tuition fees. Dubbed the Jamaica Values and Attitudes Programme...

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Citizens stone school
PM steps up bid for Republic
NHT to offer six-month amnesty
Grace, Kennedy staff raising funds for cancer
Consultant physicians of emergency coming soon
World Bank boosts fight against AIDS

News
Forbes to re-shuffle top investigators

POLICE COMMISSIONER Francis Forbes says that within a few weeks he will re-shuffle some of the island's top investigators to improve the analytical and detective capability of the police force. "Right now we are in the process of selecting persons to...

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'Quick Cash' depositors in Lucea giving statements
Figueroa calls for review of sex laws
Security Ministry, Correctional Services push Community Service Order

Business
FINSAC racks up $40b losses
THE state-owned Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) has racked up losses of $30.8 billion during fiscal year 1999/2000, with cumulative losses for the three years of its operation totalling $98.5 billion, according to the latest figures...

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NWC reveals pay packages for senior executives
NCBJ 2nd quarter group profits up 155 per cent
Euromoney comes to Jamaica
Overcoming the debt mountain

Sport
De Oliveira: Do not count us out

DRAWING 1-1 with Honduras, technical director Clovis de Oliveira says, is not the end of the world. The technical director for the Reggae Boyz was responding to the disappointment expressed by fans following a game in which Jamaica missed a number...

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Walker gets gold again
Skill versus skill, Test or one-day
Boxing goes to schools

Commentary
Rent forgiveness
WE BELIEVE the Public Defender, Mr. Howard Hamilton Q.C., is well-meaning in his call for a rent write-off, but we doubt that he has thought through the full implications of his proposal. Mr. Hamilton, as reported in this newspaper, has suggested that...

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The tenor of the Budget Debate
Amnesty's flawed mission
Volume, vulgarity, violence and venom

Letters
Letter of the Day Re crime and bread
THE EDITOR, Sir: I CONTINUE to be neutral politically, but tremendously savvy of the behind-the-scene happenings in the community of Grants Pen, that teeming ghetto of 240 acres occupied by 10,201 poor Jamaicans. I have lived there since my birth in...

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Crowd support was lacking
Tenancy and debt forgiveness
The police's use of force
How do we get to Theory?
Amnesty's rebuke of the Jamaican justice system

Entertainment
Frisco Kid adds to his name

DJ FRISCO Kid has taken an appendage to his name. He now likes to be referred to as Frisco Kid, a.k.a Ancient Monarchy. "It's not a name change. It's just an advancement to another place, another level. Ancient Monarchy means that I uphold and...

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New date for Portmore Carnival Road Parade
Special awards for Holt, Griffiths

ShowTime
Pulling Out All The Stops For Luther - Never Too Much

LUTHER VANDROSS plans to cheat while he is in Jamaica. The diabetic R&B singer, who will be here next month for a Mother's Day concert, has given strict instructions to the Hilton Kingston Hotel, regarding the preparation of his meals.

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11-y-o to demonstrate at flower show

Star Page
Beres rules

FOR the thousands of adoring reggae fans from New York and surrounding areas who squeezed into Hammerstein Ballroom last Thursday to watch reggae's most popular crooner, Beres Hammond and his friends in concert, it was truly a memorable...

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Energetic nine-year-olds
The ideal man?
A union that works like a charm
What is lupus?