Property taxes hiked - Majority of land owners to pay between $100 and $200 per month
LOCAL GOVERNMENT Minister Arnold Bertram last night announced increases in property taxes which would see the majority of property owners paying between $100 and $200 per month. Mr. Bertram, however, told the House of...

Frome Tech expels 10 students
JPSCo applies rate increase
'Let's make Jamaica nice and clean'- Labour Day to coincide with islandwide clean-up
...Projects
Shake-up looms at JTB Simpson Miller challenges JHTA

Principal suggests metal detectors
FOLLOWING A spate of violent incidents in schools across the island, Lloyd Bryan, principal of Calabar High, has suggested metal detectors being installed in...

Campbell opens debate on Info Act
Clarke urges business leaders to join drug fight
JamRock's operators submit building plans

Grace to launch Caribbean fund by July
GRACE, KENNEDY and Company Ltd. will launch a mutual fund within the next two months, says its chairman and chief executive officer Douglas Orane. The Grace Six Income Mutual Fund will be launched across the region, he said. The Grace chairman was...

Cruise shipping runs aground - But hopes high for a comeback
Air Jamaica gains market share
... but gloomy outlook on horizon for airline industry
'Single market and economy essential for Caribbean survival'
Dining Italian style in Ochi
C&W gives up OECS monopoly
CI Fund management becomes sixth largest fund company in Canada

Windies in driver's seat
THE 2002 CABLE & Wireless series enters its final day today at Sabina Park with the fifth and final day of the fifth and final Test match with the West Indies, thanks to pacer Pedro Collins and a bit of good fortune...

Red Stripe Mound beer drinking contest a highlight
Campbell takes sprint double
Collins elated with Sachin's scalp

A case of anarchy
THE MAINTENANCE of law and order is the primary function of government. Where a government is derelict in that duty the result is anarchy. Blockading the frontage of the Kingston Parish Church in downtown Kingston is a textbook case of anarchy. The...

Trust in the police
Living what they learn

Injustice is injustice, matters not
THE EDITOR, Sir: The picture on the front page of Friday's edition of your paper (May 17, 2002) of men being carried away in what appears to have been an army truck from the Tel-Aviv and Southside communities of Central Kingston serves as...

Bring forth proof, Mr Seaga
Stop putting down Jamaica
FTC should investigate Registrar General's Office
Be proud of our Reggae Boyz
Strong stance needed against crime
Portmore needs a public hospital
Relatives of Jose Richards

Evening of world favourites
THE CONCERT 'An Evening of World Favourite Music' on Sunday, was an evening of quiet classical music. The concert was put on by the Georgian Society of Jamaica. The society, which was started in 1967, focuses on the preservation of elegant Georgian...

Spider-Man: Hero or villain?

An asthma attack
The worldwide trend, in recent years, points to an increase in the number of children developing asthma. But, while there is no cure for this condition, health specialists say that, with deliberate home...

Sudden hearing loss

Spices
Cardamom is the Queen of spices and pepper is King. Still, it took mouths sweetened with...

Ma Lou's is so Caribbean