JAMAICA-GLEANER EDITORS' FORUM - Child sex abuse rife - Attacks on minors at alarming levels - Rights advocates call for task force
CLAIMING A growing problem of sexual and other abuse of minors, children's rights activist, Betty-Ann Blaine, yesterday called for the establishment of a national task force to begin to address this deepening crisis.

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'Males are lousy drivers'
Dalley wants condoms in prisons
Two get Jamaica College (JC) top award
Big support for young businessman
'Extend retirement age of teachers'
Minerals fair at Mona
FLANKERS MURDER TRIAL: Death car had 91 bullet holes
Turf war affecting August Town students
International University of the Caribbean opens new campus
Charles Town Maroons celebrate Quao Day
Residents irate over closed police station
National Water Commission (NWC) strike ends

Jamaica Gleaner makes it nine in a row
THE DYNAMIC advertising team at the Gleaner Company on Tuesday walked away with the Advertising Agencies Association of Jamaica (AAAJ) Media of the Year Award, for the ninth consecutive year. In addition, members of the team received 11 certificates...

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Come with the evidence, EAC head tells Shaw
Tree-planting project launched in St Ann
Girls' day at Holy Family
Nurses Week activities
Insurance firm joins anti-drug bike ride
Reform laws to safeguard women's rights, says Amnesty
Top cop urges De la Vega residents to speak up
Family sponsorship in Canada
Registering with father's particulars
What is human trafficking?
Sexual abuse alert

New competitors to boost cellular phone offerings in Jamaica
JAMAICA SAYS it will be selling two more cellular telephone licences, with the closing of the deal just awaiting the completion of due diligence reports commissioned by the finance ministry. According to Phillip Paulwell, the technology minister...

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Short-term investors weighing down Supreme Ventures - George
Berger to stay in Jamaica - CEO
CI Investments gets more distributors
Red Stripe shifting focus back to local market
Goodbye Moore, welcome XSOMO
Shipping industry sees signs of slowing
Haiti garment makers pin hopes on US bill
Legislation could raise cost of Internet phone calls
Can commercial banking licence improve PCFS's margins in the short run?

Gayle laments missed ton
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (Reuters): CHRIS GAYLE was disappointed to miss out on a century on the first day of the third Test against India yesterday. The West Indies opener blasted 83 off 127 balls, including eight fours and five sixes...

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Holmwood retain hold on Spaulding Cup trophy
Powell heads all-star cast
Warner draws purse strings on Soca Warriors
More than one trick up England's sleeve - Crouch
Ronaldo equals all-time record
Bank on Electro Smart
HORSE SENSE - Honouring their contribution

Brazen disrespect for the law
THANKFULLY, THE employees of the National Water Commission (NWC) and the trade unions which represent them, have come to their senses and are back at their jobs. So, for the present, we are not faced with the prospect of communicable diseases...

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The desire for more
Out the football closet
A lament for the CCJ

LETTER OF THE DAY - Red carpet, not red tape, for investors
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE GOVERNMENT of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller must quickly change the archaic banking laws and bureaucracy that are suffocating development and preventing legitimate investors from bringing their money to Jamaica.

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The brain drain and emigration
Hope Gardens project
Links with Chavez
'My hat goes off to everyone'

'Prayer Partner' flips proverbial script
"LITTLE DAVID play on your harp, hallelujah!" goes the children chorus. Twenty-five year-old David Tulloch is making Goliath 'slayings' in local play industry with his insightful dramas and now comedy, Prayer Partner.

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Christopher Clarke aims for second win
Roger Mitchell stands 'On My Rock'
Fast, furious, drifting, drifting... and still drifting
FOUR DAYS, 11 parties, one town
Good listen, look at Lutan Fyah

All hail the queen of clean - Audrey Hinchcliffe celebrates her CD
MANPOWER MAINTENANCE Services' queen of clean, Madelene Audrey Hinchcliffe, C.D., let it all hang out on Saturday, June 17, at the Caymanas Golf Club in St. Catherine. Soft lights glowed behind cream coloured drapes around the perimeter of the room...

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Sweet sailing in Port Antonio
A pirate's paradise
Dancing with the Diaspora
Royal banquet in Trelawny
Island parties heat up the North

Cuba on new UN council
GENEVA (THE NATION): Cuba yesterday welcomed the opening of the new United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, praising its own election as a founding member of the 47-nation body and the exclusion of the United States, which declined to stand...

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BVI prepares for more constitutional talks

MOSCOW: Diplomatic crisis looms over North Korea's missile
MOSCOW (Reuters)": RUSSIA AND China urged North Korea yesterday to head off a looming diplomatic crisis in its nuclear negotiations with the rest of the world after reports that Pyong-yang is preparing to test a ballistic missile.

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CHILE: Chile to propose free trade with Peru
JORDAN: Olmert, Abbas aim for summit in weeks

England vs Sri Lanka
West Indies vs India ( May 18 to July 4)

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