Hang 'em high - Seaga - JLP outlines broad crime-fighting plan, Drug traffickers, terrorists targeted
THE JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) yesterday outlined a broad crime-fighting plan that advocated, among other things, capital punishment for drug traffickers and terrorists and the formation of a new national intelligence unit. The Crime Reduction Plan...

No toll fees just yet for bypass
Spanish Town's Gospel Den
Strachan questions loan to IT firm
Minister explains reasons for Air J's near mishap
Confab on coconut disease on

Conch issue for Supreme Court today
THE CONTROVERSY surrounding 40,000 kilos of local conch, allegedly shipped illegally to Martinique by a company owned by JAMPRO's boss, Pat Francis, and her husband, Roderick, in November, is expected to be heard in the Supreme Court today.

PNP could not call off forces - Burke
Efforts under way to develop south coast tourism
Haitians okay but status unsure
Council takes charge of civic centre
Ja braces for crime-fight plan

Gold mine shut down - After one year in operation and 8,000 ounces of gold, Ausjam suspends mining
AUSJAM MINING Limited has suspended its gold mining operations at Pennants, Clarendon. The suspension is to assess its human resources capabilities and redeploy staff in a push for greater labour and cost efficiencies, chairman Paul Sailah told...

US firm eyes Finsac bad debt portfolio
Ports tighten security
Jamaica's true spirit of commerce
Why Jamaica suffered a financial sector crisis

JDF march past Mona
A DOUBLE STRIKE by Terrence Jarrett powered the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) to a comfortable 2-1 victory over Real Mona in yesterday's Zone One top-of-the-table KSAFA Major League clash at Up Park Camp.

Tivoli, Arnett face off
Jamaica College crush KTHS

A society gone mad?
THE NEWS reports about extortionists trying to "shake down" a church for protection money would be farcical were it not painfully real. It provides yet another index of the depths to which the society has sunk. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of...

Bishop Spong and fundamentalism
Taking democracy seriously

Letter of the day - Politicians should not control courts
THE EDITOR, Sir: YOUR NEWSPAPER has on the 5th January, 2002 reported the Honourable Minister of Justice as saying that the removal of the UK Privy Council was vital if the death penalty is to be returned and that unlike the Privy Council, a Caribbean...

Red Stripe responds
Dispelling 'Mormon Myths'
New initiative is afterthought
If hands be clean
Self-appointed pastors
'Fe me Queen de a fe me yard'
Nettleford for 'man of the decade'

Marcus I pre-releases 'Forward To The Basics'
TWENTY-EIGHT year-old Marcus Crawford, who performs under the stage name Marcus I, is a Rastafarian who took a somewhat unique approach (for a reggae act) in introducing himself to Jamaican music fans last Saturday.

'Festival of the Word', a night of Caribbean culture
Profiles Of Reggae Grammy Nominees - Hawaiian album in the mix

The precious fluid BLOOD
SHORTLY AFTER delivering her bundle of joy at the Spanish Town Hospital recently, a young mother developed a fairly uncommon complication of pregnancy known as HELLP syndrome. Suffering with HELLP syndrome (haemolytic anaemia, elevated liver enzymes...

Schizophrenia in young people