Gleaner Editors' Forum: Risky roads - Surfaces contributing to increase in accidents say experts
ROADS saturated by heavy rains and overburdened motor vehicles, are contributing to an increase in auto accidents and fatalities in Jamaica, says Patrick Rose, director of research and planning at the National Works Agency (NWA).

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Jamaica number one cranberry consumer
Study to decide if Jamaicans are addicted to gambling
Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) has Education Ministry on time out
Bouygues to fix Portmore traffic flow
Cops look out for anti-crime schemes
Billionaire backs fight against global warming
Sick-out suspends courts for third day
Governor-General of Jamaica awards outstanding Cornwall countrymen

DB&G settles $750m suit with Mark Walters
Investment bankers Dehring, Bunting and Golding (DB&G) has settled the 20-month-old lawsuit which its former top executive, Mark Walters, brought against them in a claim on the company's profits...

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Values and attitudes programme seeks to foster better family life - PM
Call for better role models for children
Financial aid for University of Technology (UTech) students
Ground broken for Yallahs Basic renovation
JLP tackles Government over oil deal
Friendly Phonics launched
Negril bypassed, chamber unhappy
Tourist sector jittery over police 'ailment'

Licence breach... Acquisitions, CashPot erode Supreme Ventures' cash
The cost of expansion through acquisitions and slow growth in its income streams outside of its lottery business has eaten significantly into Supreme Ventures Limited's cash resources, resulting in failure to meet a liquidity requirement...

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Harmony Cove deal sealed
Rodney Davis' job safe
BNS expands uptown
Carib Cement warns of two-year shortfall
Gamblers bet $460m each month ... but not enough to grow racing industry
NIBJ owes DBJ $1.7b
Mortgage Bank to float housing bond, backed by Venezuela

Fisherman's haul topples champions
>WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY Yacht Club's reigning canoe champions, Donovan and Dwight Hyman, were toppled from their throne on Wednesday when fisherman Radcliffe Gayle stole the show with a close to 100-pound haul.

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FROM THE BOUNDARY : A batsman's job is to make runs - as simple as that
Blackwood tops small list of J'cans at Shanghai Grand Prix
Norman Manley too hot for Mona
HORSE SENSE - Tackle the use of illegal drugs

EDITORIAL: Truth, honesty and governance
In the context of Jamaica's own experience with a 'run-with-it' quality of governance and a deeply and widely held assumption that the country's politics is run on a lubricant of lies and half-truths, developments this week in the Hungarian capital...

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Northside Plaza: a case study
Making the choice

LETTER OF THE DAY - Breastfeeding yes, but more maternity leave
The Editor, Sir: I read with interest the article 'More breast milk, less psychos' published in The Gleaner of Tuesday, September 19. In this article, Dr. Eva Lewis-Fuller, director of family health services in the Ministry of Health, states

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NEPA under heavy load
Amending the Offences Against the Persons Act
Update on UTech registration
Dr Vin Lawrence, defend yourself

Jai sings solo on the straight and narrow
If Wayne 'Jai' Buchanan looks familiar it may be because he was once lead singer of the popular gospel group, Katalys Crew. For some time, though, Jai has been singing on his own.

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DVD details the making of a 'King'
Zoom' goes biff, bang, thud!

Bon voyage, Heather
Tears (and libations) flowed at the Devonshire last Friday as members of the Digicel family said au revoir to Heather Shields. The soft-voiced Shields is moving on to another Jamaican business heavyweight - Scotiabank...

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Air Jamaica Jazzfest prepares for perfect '10'
Bye-bye, bubbly Briton!
Dragonaires headlines J'can Jerk Festival
Librans at large

IRAQ: Post-Saddam torture worse
GENEVA (AP): Torture in Iraq may be worse now than under Saddam Hussein, with militias, terrorist groups - and government forces - disregarding rules on the humane treatment of prisoners, the top United Nations (U.N.) anti-torture expert said yesterday.

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THAILAND: Thai coup leaders tighten control