NCB sale settled
THE CONTROLLING interest in National Commercial Bank (NCB), held by FINSAC Limited, is to be sold to the Canada-based AIC Limited for $6.034 billion. The Canadian company will pay $2.65 billion for the 75 per cent shareholding in NCB held by FINSAC when.

Police training questioned
Enquiry aborts rural hearings
Fire at JPSCo substation

Teleservices' ex-employees stage protest
AS THE Government's information technology programme continues to unreel, ex-employees of American company Teleservices Jamaica's call centre in the Portmore Infomatics Park, yesterday staged a peaceful protest over dismissals. The ex-workers...

J'can is Brooklyn's deputy borough president
Death toll: 33 in 11 days
Stray cats plague craft vendors

Financing disbursed for infrastructure repairs
GOVERNMENT HAS allocated some $1.1 billion for infrastructure repairs in Portland and other flood ravaged parishes, the state news agency said this week. The funds were disbursed during the last quarter of 2001, and spent through the Ministry of...

Government to tackle financial criminals

Boys, Girls Champs on hold
DELAYS in refurbishing work at the National Stadium have forced the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) to postpone the March 19-23 Boys and Girls Athletics Championships. A source close to ISSA said yesterday the National Stadium which...

Rothmans cricket bowls off
Champs STETHS on show in Santa Cruz
Track train goes to Kirkvine

Children getting fat
YOUNG CHILDREN are getting fat on a fast food diet and inadequate exercise; this because they are getting hooked on video games which do not require strenuous activity. Both habits are copied from the American lifestyle favoured by many young people. ...

Ganja and the US
Culture and the bruised male ego

Prime Minister disappoints on NetServ issue
THE EDITOR, Sir: REGRETTABLY! I had the pain and the agony listening to the Prime Minister of this country, on RJR's Hotline programme at approximately 11.50 on January 4, 2002.

The public and offensive images
The renovation of society
Saddened at reports of violence

Three poets open word festival Tanya Batson
Staff Reporter "THE WORD is out," were Jean Small's first words as she took over the chairing of the Festival of the Word, which began right after the opening ceremony of the Conference on Caribbean Culture on Wednesday night. It was the first of the...

Out & Around

Mini-Sett yam growth affected - Improper land preparation resulting in ill-shaped tubers
A RECENT examination of Mini-Sett yam plots in Wakefield, Trelawny revealed a common problem ­ improper land preparation resulting in ill-shaped tubers. The Mini-Sett technology requires that dissected bits of yam be allowed to sprout in beds, and..

Economic parameters of livestock production
Co-generation plant for Frome Sugar Estate
Goat's milk project has export potential

Planning legislation coming
PLANNERS IN Jamaica were highly critical this week of the absence of planning legislation to guide the development process, despite a 10-year-old attempt at crafting a bill. But new chief executive for the Ministry of Land and Environment (MLE) said...

Project to sustain watershed management launched

Under the boardwalk down by the sea on a blanket with my baby that's where I'll be...
THE WIND is warm, there is a slight mist over the harbour and the coin is falling. It glitters, reflecting the light of the sun before cutting through the rippling surface of the water with a clip. Sploosh, sploosh, sploosh. The foaming water...

Ruby red, for racy rooms - Don't be timid -- paint your bedroom ravishingly red
Royal Palm Reserve - Crocodiles, nature walks and bird watching