Ritz-Carlton Hotel opens today
WESTERN BUREAU: SPIRITS WERE high yesterday at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Rose Hall, Montego Bay, as some 750 employees of the upscale resort and Ritz-Carlton officials from overseas, gathered in preparation for today's opening.

Is there hope for Jamaica

IF YOU have a problem, fix it, Jamaica Chamber of Commerce President Anthony Chang, chided the Government in Kingston on Wednesday. At a luncheon held at the Courtleigh Hotel to induct new members into the Jamaica Institute of Manage-ment (JIM)....

Private contractors now responsible for upkeep of roads

GOVERNMENT WILL now be holding private contractors responsible for the upkeep of about 4,000 kilometres of main roads across the island. Minister of Transport and Works Dr. Peter Phillips said yesterday this was part of the attempts to prevent further..

American Embassy to host College Fair 2000
JAMAICAN STUDENTS and their parents and counsellors will have an opportunity to discuss studying abroad with representatives of American colleges and universities during a three-day College Fair scheduled for November 2000. The fair is being organised..

Lecturer to join Fulbright programme

MICHELLE MCANUFF-GUMBS, a lecturer in English at Bethlehem Moravian College in Malvern, St. Elizabeth, has been selected to pursue a Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction at Ohio University, beginning this month. Her studies are being sponsored..