'CMU failed'
Special squad did not fulfil mandate, says Forbes
WITH PUBLIC opinion seemingly split over his decision to disband the Reneto Adams-led controversial Crime Management Unit (CMU), Police Commissioner Francis Forbes says the unit's failure to fulfil its primary objective was his main reason for phasing...

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...'CMU achieved a lot'
NIS office goes after delinquent employers
Squatters defy UDC, NHDC
Backyard burials banned
KSAC deems St. Andrew lands unsuitable
'NIS is not a tax'

PM warns feuding comrades
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson has warned feuding factions in the People's National Party to bury the hatchet and stay clear of further in-fighting if they are to take home the Trelawny Parish Council, in the June 19 Local Government elections.

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Towed away
Forbes to appoint JCF safety officer

Jamaica's debt dilemma
THE MAIN crisis facing Jamaica today is the stranglehold of the public debt. The debt ballooned from $45.8 billion in 1991 to its present level of over $601 billion at March 31, 2003 and today approximates 140 per cent of GDP at current prices.

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US-dollar jobs now more common in Jamaica
Company Results - Jamaica Producers records highest earnings per share in five years
Rallying the export sector

Sri Lanka run through Windies
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC: WEST INDIAN euphoria over the hat-trick of victories against Australia has lasted less than a week, thanks to a purposeful Sri Lankan team which defeated the Caribbean side by 55 runs in the opening encounter...

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Mixed emotions at Hellshire fter netball squad selected
Todd saddles three
Hydel reign supreme at Prep Champs
Samuels, Ebanks score centuries for Melbourne
Hazard fans feel betrayed

Editorial - The show must go on
REPRESENTATIVES OF local theatre, in a discussion reported in The Gleaner last Thursday, voiced the fear that in a climate of harsh economic reality, the future of Jamaican theatre is "threatened".

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Pension reforms long overdue
O for a better class of worship!
Promoting killing machines

Letter of the day - Hats off to Beverly East
THE EDITOR, Sir: ON MONDAY May 19, I overheard one of my co-workers commenting on an article in The Sunday Gleaner May 18, 2003 Career Section page 1. She was expressing her concern on how a young man who was a past trainee of the Stony Hill...

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What took the police high command so long?
No more 'business as usual'
Insult to Mandela?
No 'time' for Half-Way Tree traffic
A true newspaper ambassador

Music lovers hard of hearing?
WHAT MANY persons who listen to loud music consistently do not realise is that in addition to disrupting the tranquillity of the neighbourhood, they may be well on the way to not being able to disturb even themselves.

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Heavenly hand in earthly tunes?
Cynthia Wilmot - a lifetime of writing and film-making

Book review - Taking tourism to the people
THE UNIQUE character of this book is the quality of the research. It reflects a high level of excellence in the conducting of social science research.

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Choose ye this day...
Youthful expressions

Do Christians have happier marriages?
DENNIS CLARE (name changed), confesses to Outlook that 10 years after being married, it crosses his mind occasionally that there are "other options". It is primarily his Christian commitment, he says, which prevents him from checking these options out...

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DESMOND RICHARDS: Fomenting revolution
Poetry from the soul - Two artists define their works

Collaring crime
IN JAMAICA, we swing from one crisis to another without ever coming to a solution of the fundamental problems which we face...This week the panic is about crime and the police, in particular, the problem of special police units... (Robotham)

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Rock and a hard place
Girls behaving badly
Parliamentary representation and salaries
Press freedom is not a 'gnat'