Lead Stories
Armoured vehicles being sought
The Jamaica Constabulary is scouting around for armoured vehicles to take its members into volatile areas during shootings. The search is said to be "feverish" in light of 11 police killings since the start of the year and the high risks the police...

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Adams accuses cops
266 J'can smugglers held in UK up to August
J'cans not using foreign schools as route to employment

News
NWC reviews 800-job cut option
The National Water Commission is to undertake a comprehensive review of its operations and one of its options for plugging the multi-million dent in its revenues is the redundancy of 800 workers. The review, a source close to the commission told The...

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Paid-up tenants without water
Student loan repayment hurting med students

Business
The cost of being a man
From dating to sports, men have a financial cross to bear. Women often bemoan the costs of maintaining their appearances, but a man's life is no bargain, either. From springing for an engagement ring...

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A weekend with Carol Archer
The economic impact of legalised ganja

Sport
Champs off to good start

LAST YEAR'S schoolboy football champions Cornwall College and Norman Manley made positive starts in the Pepsi/Sports Plus 2001 season which opened yesterday at the National Stadium with a doubleheader...

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Samuda holds off Smith for crown
Lawson on fire
Feanny saddles hat-trick of wins at track

Commentary
Lewd lyrics and the law
The chronic failure of Jamaican authorities to enforce existing laws is responsible for many of our problems. Night noises, littering of streets, straying animals are but a sampling of this failure. Another instance finally reached judicial...

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Moving the higglers - again
J'cans want to get the hell out
Signs of confusion
The common denominator

Letters
Continue the good work, Tank-Weld
THE EDITOR, Sir: I write in response to two news items seen on TVJ and CVM on Monday, August 27, 2001 and comments made by a few demonstrators re an accident at Tank-Weld Ltd. of 29 Seaward Drive, Kingston 11.

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The NHT and Minora Crawford
The plight of Jamaican teachers

Entertainment
Shaggy on top of the world

Late Wednesday night, more than 500 celebrities and media personnel gathered at Metropolitan Pavilion on West 18th street in New York City to celebrate the musical success story of the year, Shaggy's Hot Shot selling more than 10 million...

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Backing bands still a favourite
The hurdles of gospel music

Outlook
The young travellers -Children of the diplomats

WE HEAR daily of the Ambassadors, the High Commissioners and the Charge d'affaires on assignment in our country. We hear of their achievements, and see pictures of their wives and husbands on the social pages of our newspapers...

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Nigerian teen embraces Jamaican culture
Settling in is second nature
Don't take it so seriously
An evil heart

Showbiz
Alpha Boys Band making a difference

Not many schools in Jamaica can boast of having a school band with longevity of more than 100 years, producing musicians including Charles Clarke, teacher in Buffalo; Ron Wilson, New York; the late Leslie Thompson, the first Alpha Band musician to...

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Remembering Peter Tosh
Beauty with a real purpose