Six die in crash - Two battling for life after St Elizabeth tragedy
SANTA CRUZ, St. Elizabeth: UP TO late last night, the two survivors of a motor vehicle accident which occurred along the Gutters main road in St. Elizabeth were still battling for life in hospital while six others lay dead.

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Vaz new deputy treasurer of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)
CARICOM Finance Ministers meet at Jamaica Pegasus today
Carib firms urged to form partnerships
Negril hotelier slain
Fire leaves 11 homeless in Montego Bay, Jamaica
KRAAL TRIAL - Prosecution lawyers to continue submissions
Sharpton urges stand against crime

Don't give criminals prominence in the news, says Northern Caribbean University president
DR. HERBERT Thompson, president of the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has charged the media to be more responsible in reporting what he calls sensitive stories. "Our lead stories and front page news should not be the ones with the murders...

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Government of Jamaica urged to improve IT standards
Independent investigator for AIDS activist murder case
New immigration officers for airports
Mediators trained to deal with crime, violence in Spanish Town
Old Goodyear factory for skills training complex
Guyanese ex-cop linked to hit squad
Undertaker eyes South Trelawny caretaker seat

Have you put up Christmas lights yet?
"NOT EVEN one. I haven't seen one house with pepper lights in my housing scheme so far this year," quipped a Constant Spring Road resident. In December 2004, retailer MegaMart awarded 'Most Decorated House' to the Bonner family...

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Slow Christmas sales

Ricketts racially abused
DONOVAN RICKETTS, one of Jamaica's home grown England-based players, on Saturday came face to face with one of the uglier sides of the game when he was racially abused and then sent off for responding with an "abusive gesture" in a game.

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Seba stun Rivoli with late goals
ICC hits out at Akram over race comment
Kingston College seek more success
Waterhouse thump Village
New head coach at Waterhouse
Tivoli overcome resilient Reno
Wadadah escape with a draw
Jamaica make winning start

Keeping watch on politics
A CORRESPONDENT on the Letters Page opposite, in reaction to last Sunday's Public Affairs article,has suggested that we are in the middle of a civil war. The Sunday article was written by Trevor Gordon-Somers, a Jamaican who is a retired Chief of Staff...

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The academic life
Making a difference
Going bananas

LETTER OF THE DAY - Local authorities spark squatting
THE EDITOR, Sir: RESPONDING TO the letter of December 6, 2005 titled 'Squatting devaluing several communities' I was impressed to note how true a description it was of the Jamaican setting...

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We are in a civil war
Progress needed

Jamaican wins short story competition
THE DESIRE to 'spree', the contemporary marker of wealth, the SUV, earned the regional prize for the Americas in the 2005 Commonwealth Short Story Competition, the results of which were announced recently.

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'Narnia' enchants moviegoers

End of an era - First female parliamentary clerk retires
AFTER 47 years of unbroken service, Sharonette Lewis retires from the Justice system at the end of December. The first female parliamentary clerk, she retires at the age of 65 to begin a new and uncharted path in her life.

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Flair launches Woman Inc Trust Fund
EVE'S LAW - HIV/AIDS discrimination
Do GUYS buy the right gifts?
Lonely at Christmas
Walking comes naturally
Oral: man with the experience
Sunday Best
Maximise your returns and beat inflation

Six industrial plants to come on stream
PORT-OF-SPAIN (AP): TRINIDAD AND Tobago has reached agreements with private investors to build six new industrial plants in an investment valued at US$7.4 billion, the Prime Minister said yesterday.

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Coastguard searches for Canadian
Trinidadian teen charged with faking kidnapping
US contractor found dead in Guyana

Lawyer seeking lifeline for Tookie
LOS ANGELES, U.S.A. (AP): A lawyer for convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams asked the state Supreme Court to stay his execution, saying the Crips gang co-founder should have been allowed to argue...

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Probe begins into mega-fatality crash

'HAIR' IS THE HAT

DARAIN HOUSEN HAS not taken off his hat for the last 20 years. He bathes, he sleeps and does everything possible in it. It is a perfect fit.