Cops set for battle
POLICE COMMISSIONER Francis Forbes has strategically moved manpower and resources to bolster two essential crime-fighting arms of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. The Crime Management Unit (CMU) and the Special Anti-Crime Task Force...

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EDITORS' FORUM: Crowded prisons force early releases
Discrimination main foe in war on AIDS
Cambios slow to report shady deals
Jamaican economy propped up by dirty money
Organisations reap from war on drugs

HIV-positive deportees facing double trauma
THE MINISTRY of Health and some non-governmental organisations are concerned that HIV-positive persons deported from the United States are unable to continue their treatment and may be a contributing factor in the emergence of drug-resistant strains...

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Probe of DPP's office healthy, lawyers say
JPSCo operations back on track
Two men fatally shot

Digicel roaming now available in 50 countries
MOBILE COMPANY Digicel has announced, that it has signed the 50th roaming agreement with international partners. They now have 51 roaming agreements. These roaming agreements with other GSM operators around the world allows Digicel customers to use...

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The value of life insurance
Jamaicans should be able to live and work freely abroad - Orane
UWI launches entrepreneurial initiatives

Manley take Manning Cup in nail-biter
NORMAN MANLEY High are the kings of Corporate Area schoolboy football after pulling off a nail-biting, 4-3 penalty shoot-out victory over Wolmer's Boys in the Manning Cup final at the Harbour View Mini Stadium yesterday. After 90 minutes and two...

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Golden Wynter cools foes
H. View, Hazard clash

Editorial: Searching for consensus
THIS IS the first day of the last month of a year of historical events too tentative to call as the best of times, the worst yet - or somewhere in between. Because it is December the focus will sharpen in anticipation of the impending...

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Applying intelligent force to fighting crime
Not worrying about the murder statistics
Let's make a covenant with life
The statistics of terror

LETTER OF THE DAY: Creating a more gentle society
JAMAICA COULD be described as a truly plural society. In its small boundaries of just over 4,000 square miles, there is manifested the best of humanity and the worst of humanity. How can one explain having produced Merlene Ottey, Bob Marley...

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Not speaking for all women
Malvo and Jamaica
New embassy building will pose problems

Fashionably DULL - Big bucks eluding the industry
OVER THE past few years, the number of local fashion houses or Jamaican influenced designers has increased; besides already established names like Norma Soas and Les Campbell there are now entities such as SIIM and Catch a Fire. Despite...

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British writer Tobias Hill visits Jamaica
Singer looking for comeback
No re-entry, less hassle
The making of a gospel hit

HIV/AIDS a real cause for concern
IN EARLY 2000, Elizabeth Shortwas certain she was one of, if not the happiest woman alive. She had four beautiful children and a loving husband who cared for her and the children. They had their own business, which was doing well. She had no complaints...

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Shattered Trust
The voices
Only a mother's love
Twenty-four seven
A Christmas book for kids Jamaica Merry Christmas

How crime creates poverty
WHEN NATIONAL Security Minister, Peter Phillips, signalled recently that he would be deploying the army in certain inner-city communities, human rights activists became alarmed. When he went on to say that there was no departure timetable, they were...

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Scarce benefits and spoils or Mafia-style racketeering?
The new parliament and representation
A chat with a Bible translator