Lead Stories
Poor regional pass rate in CXC Maths - Local Ministry reviewing teaching methods

FEWER JAMAICAN and other Caribbean students scored between grades I and III in the CXC Mathematics examinations this year, and the poor results have already forced the local Ministry of Education into reviewing teaching methods to get better results...

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Bail after 5 years - Court finally acts in murder case against brothers
C&W cutting 300 more jobs
Jamaican woman extradited to US - To answer charges of dousing boyfriend with acid
Smooth sailing for new school term - Whiteman
'I refuse to condemn homosexuals'

News
Slaughter of the innocents
WESTERN BUREAU: SINCE JANUARY this year, 10 children including five babies between 13 months old and 32 months old have been brutally murdered, police statistics show.

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Four women among candidates for Lasco Top Cop Award
Seaga accused of ignoring PNP supporters
C&W employee returns; to face court next week
Forbes transfers senior cops

Business
Economic Reform Programme gets boost
THE GOVERNMENT'S Economic Reform Programme has received a boost with the European Commission (EC) providing $400 million (10 million euros) to the Ministry of Finance and Planning. Head of the European Commission in Jamaica, Gerd Jarchow, presented...

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Former Oneita workers to be paid
Leadership deficiency needs to be addressed - Morgan

Sport
Hall ready to give his all

RECENTLY RECALLED live-wire forward Paul Hall fit right into a high-spirited Reggae Boyz training session at the National Stadium yesterday. Hall, recalled after a 14-month absence, was part of a training session in which the national football squad...

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Atkinson mines silver at Goodwill Games
Young Windies in strong position
Selena Mystique in fine style

Commentary
The Vale Royal legacy
THE VALE Royal consensus is nearly three weeks old yet already events, criminal and political, seem to threaten it. The escalating murder rate was the subject of a JLP release earlier this week calling on the Government to tell the nation what...

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Israel's dangerous game
Theology, sacrament and ganja
Western Kingston revisited

Letters
Letter of the Day - Met Office justifies handling of 'Chantal' threat
THE EDITOR, Sir: JUDGING FROM published letters to the Editor in relation to Jamaica's close encounter with Tropical Storm Chantal, it appears that there is a cloud of uncertainty regarding the manner in which the Meteorological Service handled...

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Ganja, the youth and academics
The Attorney-General and Seaga's debts
JLP leader's GCT arrears is a valid campaign issue
Death threats and violence in schools
Education and job creation can curb escalating crime
Seaga's money woes
Ritch's misinformed and silly commentary

Entertainment
Mystic Revelation crowns the night with music

THE POETRY Society's 'Poetry Fellowship' held Tuesday at the Edna Manley College of The Visual and Performing Arts was a night filled with the artistic ecstasy of 'lightning-and-thunder' poetry and soulful music from The Mystic Revelation of Ras Tafari.

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Holiday Circus creating waves in MoBay

Cornwall Edition
Rotary reopens dental clinic in Ramble

THE ROTARY Club in Montego Bay recently reopened the Lester Bevans Memorial Dental Clinic at Ramble Health Centre in Hanover. This project was launched 14 years ago by the Club under the Presidency of George Palmer. The dental clinic was fully equipped...

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Long Hill road under investigation
COMAND criticises the Church
37 kids in mourning
Race on for Eastern Hanover seat

What's Cooking
Lunch Time - Exciting back-to-school meal ideas

IT'S THAT time of year when parents and other caregivers wonder what they will feed to children to get nutritious yet exciting meals. The answer to their dilemma is creative cooking, to draw on the theme of Grace Kitchen's television programme.

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What's 4 dinner ? Baked Chicken Parmesan
The right way to start your day

Star Page
Mystery chocolate

WHO is the cute chocolate colour catty Bounty Killer is sparring wid? And to know that many a brownings are having hiccups over the catty. Oh, yes some browning seh it not like Bounty to be attracted to such darker shades. But, as you can see this...

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