New cess, more tax - JPSCo customers to offset costs for street lighting
JUST LESS than 500,000 customers of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo) will, on April 1, begin paying a 3.14 per cent cess to offset the company's cost of providing street lighting. On the same day, property owners...

Tax evasion scams cost Gov't millions - Dalley
No let-off for Hondurans
Ambassadors, consul general appointed
Eastern Banana to cut more employees
Whiteman dismisses Seaga's comments

Air J steps up security
AIR JAMAICA has stepped up security on all flights coming from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. The decision to further increase security follows an advisory yesterday from US authorities of a non-specific threat against an unspecified flight from...

RGD satisfying 95 per cent of applications - Holness
JUTC extends express service to UTech students
Lawyers seek to discredit policeman's testimony

Massive business losses from thievery
SMALL BUSINESSES calculate losses to pilferage and other in-house theft at between 5-20 per cent of revenues, a problem that the sector says seems to be growing as employees find more creative ways...

Strengthening energy efficiency practices
New tourism thrust for Ocho Rios
Security an increasingly expensive luxury

Star in the Park race day launched
SATURDAY, MARCH 9 has been designated 'The Star in the Park' day at Caymanas Park, as The Gleaner Company and Caymanas Track Limited (CTL) come together for another in a long list of sponsored days...

Tivoli, Hazard rematch
Confident Simmons believes T&T can overrun Jamaica
New Zealand look good

Speak now, Mr Shaw!
AS OPPOSITION Spokesman on Finance, Audley Shaw is striving hard to earn a reputation as master of the exposé. His robust style lends credence to what he declaims in Parliament or political platform. Hence he revelled in the revelations...

The challenge to democracy
Tweedledum and Tweedledee

A cess is a tax!
THE EDITOR Sir THE WORD "cess" is defined in both the Concise Oxford Dictionary and Webster's International. I also found the word on the Internet from the web-site 'focus research.com'. The word cess means - "A tax." (plain and simple).

The most forgiving, forgetful nation
Shorthand writers in the Courts
Election silly season
Evolution does not exist
Proud of our Queen
Advertising classic

Colours Lounge was alive with jazz
CINDY BREAKSPEARE, in tandem with Rupert Bent Snr., gave an excellent performance at 'Live Jazz at the Colours Lounge' at the Olympia Crown Hotel on Molynes Road on Sunday.

13 contestants to vie for Miss Jamaica Universe

Herbs - More women are turning to herbs for better health
THE ROOTS of the black cohosh, a tall perennial herb that grows mainly in northeastern United States, is reportedly boiled by native Americans and used as treatment for just about everything - from women's problems to...

Uphill battle against cervical cancer