In defence of the flag

LOUIS DAVIS'S concern about the scant regard paid to the colours of the Jamaican flag, yesterday earned him The Gleaner's Silver Pen award for August 2000. A freelance advertising photographer, Mr. Davis expressed in his August 5 letter to the Editor...

Poverty in the region a holistic problem

THE LACK of equity in the distribution of resources and the persistence of poverty in the region, dominated yesterday's presentations at the official opening of the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Children and Social Policy in the Americas. The...

TRW still has EAC contract

TRW, THE American company which provided Jamaica's voter registration system in the 1997 general election, is still contracted in a maintenance capacity to the Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC), Danville Walker, the director of elections told the...

Watersports manager pays US$1m in court
ERNIE Smatt, an Ocho Rios businessman who operates Watersports Enterprises Ltd., has paid US$1 million in court after the Court of Appeal gave him a stay of execution of a US$2.6 million Supreme Court judgment against his company. The US$1 million is to.

Homosexuality and the role of the Church - The Church Living outside the realm of reality.
The following is the first of a three-part essay by the Rev. Stephen-Claude Hyatt. IT IS a commonly accepted fact that the Church Universal is described as ecclesia.