School blues Furniture shortage; water, sanitary problems
YESTERDAY'S START to the academic school year was generally incident-free except for one major protest outside a primary school in Kingston, another in St. Thomas, and other minor hiccups at some Corporate Area primary and junior high schools.

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Spanish Twn prepares for traffic changes
'We will not bow to political pressure'
Government to pull plug on some cable operators
Scores turned away at Ocho Rios Primary
Furniture shortage at Clarendon schools

New Jersey celebrates Jamaica Day
PLAINFIELD, New Jersey: TAKE A well-organised thought, mix it with lots of commitment, dedication, stir with aspiration, passion and love of country, and what materialises is an excellent...

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Brown's Town cops demand station repairs
Fund-raising walk goes ahead despite heavy rains
New NDM boss says life still in the party
Rains thrash Old Harbour
Answering Billy Hall (Part I)

BNS launches Internet banking
SCOTIABANK JAMAICA started offering Internet banking to its customers yesterday as it continued the upgrading of its technological platform to facilitate clients who wish to transact business from their offices and homes.

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C&W Barbados reports $42m loss

Bolt did not want to run
ACCORDING TO the management of Jamaica's team to the ninth World Athletics Championships in Paris, France, teenage sprint sensation Usain Bolt did not run because he never wanted to. "He just did not want to run, for various reasons.

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Ja fell short of target, Watts
Super start from Tsunami

Trade union change
WHILE AMERICANS and Canadians celebrate Labour Day on September 1, May is a more popular month across the Caribbean, recalling the labour unrests of 1938 which swept the region and out of which the modern trade union movement was born here.

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Licensed to kill
Civic praise from Port-of-Spain
Crime strategy evading a key issue (Part 1)

'Moralising' the sex trade is of little value
THE EDITOR, Sir: I READ in your newspaper today (August 31) that Health Minister, John Junor, has "flatly rejected calls by the health and social work community for the setting up of a 'red light' district or safe zone for local prostitutes...

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From GSAT scholarship awardee
Poor job, TVJ
Getting rid of the past
Steve Russell
Journalism in schools
Keeping the poor unarmed
Pay attention to Bowden Harbour
Inequities in education

Jazz in the ballroom a hit
WESTERN BUREAU:'JAZZ IN The Gardens' became 'Jazz in the Ballroom' at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston, on Sunday evening.

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A watered-down breadfruit festival

MCP team to conduct feasibility study in Ja
A TEAM of experts from Maritime Cargo Processing (MCP) Plc, the leading provider of port community systems in the United Kingdom, is to visit Jamaica to carry out a feasibility study for a local port community system over the next two weeks.

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PAJ signs off on North Terminal improvements

THE FRIAR OF Brown's Town
BROTHER ANTHONY Michael wears a ring on the fourth finger of his left hand. But there is no woman in his life. He is married to Christ and as such, has embraced the monastic way.

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Up close with twin witnesses - Part II