Party-hearty fans swarm Sabina Park
When you leave your home to go see a match at Sabina Park, you look forward to two things: a good game of cricket and an all-day party. The thousands of cricket fans who showed up at the venue yesterday to see the opening match of the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup....
Highgate Foods assets hit the auction block
The salvageable assets of Highgate Foods, a 30-year-old company started by Claude Clarke, go on the auction block Thursday in a final attempt by receiver Ken Tomlinson to rescue value from the debt-ridden confectionery, Wednesday Business has learned...
Sweet victory - Windies defeat Pakistan in World Cup curtain-raiser
THE 2007 Cricket World Cup got off to an exciting and encouraging start at Sabina Park yesterday with the batsmen of the West Indies, headed by Marlon Samuels, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Brian Lara, and those of Pakistan, led by Shoaib Malik...
EDITORIAL - A more constructive approach, please
Audley Shaw has hopes of becoming Jamaica's Finance Minister if his party wins the general election that will be held sometime before the end of this year.That is an important job, demanding of public confidence and trust as well as a capacity for formulating...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Pit bull terriers seen as threatto public safety
THE EDITOR, Sir: I WRITE to express concern about a relatively new threat to public safety in Jamaica: the illegal importation or breeding of pit bull terriers. As you may be aware, so-called 'pit bulls' are a breed of dogs that was genetically engineered....
Past West Indies members feted
The heroes of cricket were celebrated in high style and jubilation at 'A Toast To Cricket' at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel last Monday night. A sense of West Indian pride was strong as persons gathered to remember and award the past members of the West Indies team...
Living Life - Breast cancer will not defeat me!
"I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000. I had a mastectomy and everything was fine. I was fine physically and emotionally, though I cannot be so positive about the spiritual side. I discovered I had bone metastasis a few years later and was treated with radiation...
