Senators, MPs to be sworn in today - No reason to void any election result, Constituted Authority says
No reason to void any election result, Constituted Authority says THE CONSTITUTED Authority announced yesterday that it would not ask the Election Court to void any of the 60 results from the October 16 general election...

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THE GLEANER'S CHILDREN'S OWN-SPONSORED SPELLING BEE COMPETITION - Spelling away to victory
$800,000 funeral for slain 13-y-o
Whitmore's trial stalled
The swearing in

Mico student escapes abduction bid
A FEMALE student at the Mico Teachers' College in Kingston narrowly escaped abduction, but is now recuperating from injuries she received after she leapt from a moving taxi and escaped while on her way from a teacher training assignment last Friday.

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More independent schools register with Education Ministry
Smoother rides for Clarendon road users
A-G off to CARICOM Legal Affairs meeting
Salute to a giant Attorney Richard Ashenheim retires from a noble career
Waste authority to boost lagging garbage collection
Soldier's gun found
$150,000 bail set for JUTC insp.
Jamaican held for coke in UK

General Assembly urges end to embargo against Cuba
UNITED NATIONS (AP): FOR THE 11th straight year, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution urging the United States to end its four-decade-old trade embargo against Cuba.

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US stocks edge up, Citigroup tempers Iraq rally

Wolmer's dismiss Dunoon
WOLMER'S HEAD the list of qualifiers for Saturday's Pepsi/Sports Plus Manning Cup semi-finals when they carved out an easy 4-0 win against a spirited Dunoon Technical team at Emmett Park yesterday.

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Breese lauds Indian great Bedi for his help
Ja whip Grenada
Dawkins gears up for training with top Romanian club
Referee's questionable decision in Rajkot
J'cans lead Texan side

The Iraq resolution
WITH LAST week's United Nations Security Council Resolution on the elimination of its weapons of mass destruction, Iraq's diplomatic isolation would appear to be complete.

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Some Yuletide reflections
Factors of development
Was the US Congressional election a turning point?
Put up or shut up

A new day in the Police Force
THE EDITOR, Sir: AT LAST Commissioner Forbes has seen the light and heeded to the various recommendations from home and abroad to dismantle and put under one canopy, the various crime-fighting machinery-squads for better control...

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Melvina Lannaman
Water woes
Burning issues that needs addressing
Keynesian economics and new leadership
Women's group saddened
Plaudits for Gloria McGlashan
A great wardrobe
A horrible column
Opposition should show patriotism

A big evening at 'Tallawah'
TWELVE OF the more than 60 entries in this year's Tallawah Festival at the University of the West Indies, Mona, were staged on Sunday evening. Mounted at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts (PSCCA), the items included a one-act play...

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Wyclef Jean would love to reform the Fugees

Hotel war on AIDS - Industry bosses establish worker awareness programmes on STDs
WESTERN BUREAU: AS JAMAICA continues to grapple the growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS, some major players in the island's tourist industry have decided to throw their support behind the war to combat the spread of the deadly virus.

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Gloomy projection for sugar
JLP gunning to sweep St James
Spot Valley housing, hotel project on track - Goal to make community multi-faceted attraction

SOPHISTICATED STEW
F ROM MEXICAN chile verde to ragout, curry and hotpot, stews of all kinds are served up on nearly every continent on earth. Vegetable stews are the most versatile...

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TODAY IS WORLD DIABETES DAY