'I'm the best' - Shaw says he has enough experience to lead JLP and Jamaica
AS THE leadership race heats up in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), one of the seven aspirants, deputy leader Audley Shaw, said he believes he is the best person to lead the party and the country.

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Senate passes CCJ Bills
Spread of Moko disease contained, says Clarke
Marlon Brando dies at age 80
Top cop declares Falmouth safe
Manchester, 'St Bess' water restored
Motorist mows down traffic cop

Guardsman to represent Motorola radio products
SECURITY GIANT Guardsman Group Ltd. has signed an agreement with Motorola CGISS division to be the official systems representative for Motorola radio products in Jamaica. "Given its experience in the security markets," said John Magee, Caribbean sales...

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Inner-city youth for MultiCare summer camp
JPS warns of conmen
Inner-city residents prepare for housing development
'Robinson neglecting environmental problems'
Basic school gets computer from C&W
Positive HIV/AIDS trends in St James

CARICOM talks begin
THREE OF the most controversial and important issues affecting the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be high on the agenda of the 25th meeting of the group's Heads of Government Summit that officially begins in St. George's...

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Gov't delays lifting of ban on US beef

Triple Crown beckons brilliant Distinctly Irish
THE SEASON'S final classic, the $2.5 million Cable & Wireless Mobile Jamaica St. Leger, is on today and barring unforeseen circumstances, the brilliant unbeaten 3-y-o gelding DISTINCTLY IRISH seems destined to become the ninth...

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Bowling worries haunt WI
Powell pipped in 200m
Atkinson, Hamilton strike gold
JFF takes game to the beach
Lara is not very inspiring, says Lloyd
Fit Jamaicans make perfect start
Powell, Campbell head Olympic team

Respect parliamentary privilege
HOUSE SPEAKER Michael Peart's warning to Donald Buchanan to exercise due caution when making presentations to Parliament is a timely one that all parliamentarians should heed. In the instant case, Mr. Buchanan had charged last month that a Member of...

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Vivian and Victoria

LETTER OF THE DAY - The importance of a second language
THE EDITOR, Sir: EARLIER THIS year on May 27, the Alvernia Preparatory school in Kingston had their very own Spanish Day. For many students in the education system today, they are not offered the chance of learning a second language until high school.

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Divert that energy to women's cause
Finally, some JLP backbone
Which Smile Jamaica?
Shame on you, Mr. Golding
A wicked visa scam
Why we returned
Disgusted with RGD, Postal Service
Patois and educational achievement
Gay activists going too far
In response to Valerie Walters
Give teachers preferential treatment
Devil taking over Jamaica

Dry spell scares 'St Bess'
WITH JUST one month since the beginning of the 2004 summer season, St. Elizabeth farmers fear that this will be one of the driest periods, and they are projecting losses of agricultural crops worth thousands of dollars.

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Making significant improvements
Ginger growers get new storage facility

Kerry's Faith
DEMOCRATIC MASSACHUSETTS Senator John F. Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, was in 1960 elected President of the United States. Forty-four years later, John F. Kerry, a Democratic Massachusetts Senator, is seeking to become the second Roman Catholic to be...

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The scandal of biblical illiteracy
Christian retailers look for niche