CARICOM says no to visas - Regional body flays restrictions on travel
CARICOM IS concerned about the policy of member countries issuing visa restrictions against other member countries, including Jamaica. Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington, said yesterday that he would be meeting with Anguilla to settle...

MOH seeks ambulance funding
Constructive criticism of cops on PSOJ 'phone-in'
Postal Corp suspends overseas express delivery

Jamaica Constabulary recruits 572
SINCE NOVEMBER last year 572 persons have been recruited to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), State Minister for National Security, Senator Kern Spencer revealed yesterday. He told the Senate that the Force currently stood at 7,309 members...

'Money problems' affect school attendance
Elder's body found in cane field
Patterson presents northern St Andrew candidates

JMMB profits reach new high
JAMAICA MONEY Market Brokers Limited reported a $552.2 million net profit for the financial year ended February 28, 2002, improving on the previous year's figure by 66.4 per cent. Keith Duncan, deputy managing director attributed their success to having..

Bee industry can earn millions, says chief officer

Help coming for sports
SPORT IS set to benefit from soon-to-be-implemented taxes from the two lottery companies operating in Jamaica, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson told heads of local sports associations who met him at Jamaica House yesterday. According to Mr. Patterson, his..

Reggae Girlz on the prowl
Ganga's century puts WI 'A' on top
Hungary suffer major setback

Editorial: A new police approach
IT SEEMS that the Jamaica Constabulary has quietly set about tackling the intractable problem of major crime by setting up a special permanent team of detectives dedicated to crime reduction. Their basic equipment will be not guns but training in...

Letter from Laura: Lucerne and Lugano

LETTER OF THE DAY: The barbarism of Colonial Britain
THE EDITOR, Sir: MANY THANKS to Melville Cooke for his piece in Gleaner of June 14, Page C10-11, "When the British were the drug smugglers." A timely reminder. The Opium wars and the matter that caused them and their results must rank as one...

Car accident victim disappointed in insurance company
Correcting faulty ideas about the security forces
How to tackle illegal vending
Flog, pray and teach the Bible in schools
Setting the record straight on St Mary
Hi-tech is key to improving sugar industry
Shipping event benefitted Portland
No to capital punishment

Voices lifted in praise at 'sing-off'
THE BIBLE Truth Church Choir brought the house down with a spirited performance at the second in the series of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir Live Sing-Offs at the Fellowship Tabernacle Church on Half-Way Tree Road. The Bible Truth Choir gave a...

Out & Around

Irish Moss, the newest cash crop
MANY OF our fishermen are now pondering the possibilities of finding supplementary or alternative means of livelihood as, once thought of as being inexhaustible, the bountiful marine life, including food fish, in the ocean around the Jamaican...

Farmers want agri fund implemented
New date for pig farmers group launch

Reconstructing city Kingston
IT IS generally agreed by all thinking Jamaicans that at some time the reconstruction of the city of Kingston must commence. The questions that seem to have no answers are when, how and by whom. In the meantime the exodus of offices and commercial...

Big bucks to aid NEPA achieve enviro efficiencies

The stunning south
From the black sands of St. Elizabeth's Great Bay, the Great Salt Pond, the limestone forests of the Great Pedro Bluff and the jaw-dropping scenery from Lover's Leap, Knox Educational Study Tours wraps up eco-tourism and environmental lessons in one neat.

Picnic in the park