Lead Stories
Eureka! There is gold in the hills of Clarendon
"THERE IS gold in them thar hills," Minister of Industry, Commerce and Technology, Phillip Paulwell, has said. The Minister was updating Parliament on the Ausjam mining project in Pennants, Clarendon, where Jamaica's first known gold mine has been...

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Remove Supt Adams - Groups want Coroners Inquest for Braeton 7, church rebukes Amnesty
Walsh plays final Test
First woman named Canon

News
Observing Earth Day

AN ARTIST'S rendition of a dragonfly, surrounded by birds, flowers, animals and marine life, adorns the poster for Earth Day 2001, the 31st official observance of the need to preserve the natural environment. But, while environmentalists keep plugging...

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Woman kills mom after praying
Cabinet moves to protect farmers
24-hour premium mail service for June 1

Business
Mullings promotes productivity in agriculture
PORT MARIA: AS PART of its overall economic policy objective, Government is seeking to ensure that the agricultural sector becomes more efficient, productive and competitive. This will increase earnings of the sector, enabling it to make a greater...

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Keep FINSAC Samuda says

Sport
Cricket:- Windies blow hot at Sabina

IT was hot at Sabina Park yesterday. It was hot for the spectators, particularly those in the George Headley Stand who kept fanning themselves all day, and it was hot for South Africa's batsmen as the West Indies staged a wonderful...

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Boxing:- Ja, Guyana set for grand showdown
Horseracing:- Hussey holds key to feature

Commentary
Murder 'on the rise'
FOR THE second year running a High Court judge has taken note of the toll of murders which continue unabated in this country. At the opening of the Easter session of the Home Circuit Court on Wednesday Mr. Justice Mahadev Dukharan noted that murder was..

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Think again, Mr. Espeut

Letters
Letter of the Day- The Church must take stock
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE FOLLOWING concerns are being projected regularly in Jamaica:- decay of the social fabric; crisis in society; and social disintegration.

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An open letter to Jamaicans from Amnesty International
I am searching for Joe McKenzie
The slippery downward slope
Gun action and inaction
Poor customs procedures

Entertainment
Big and bold! - What's size got to do with it?

ON AN entertainment landscape where image is largely everything, full-figured performers have put stereotype aside and are comfortable on stage. Whether pleasantly plump, or weight-challenged, the meat of the...

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Swept Away Negril Spa is all the rage

Farmer's Weekly
Conch fishing resumes soon
CONCH FISHING could resume as early as next week, after a two-year break triggered by a legal dispute over the Minister of Agriculture's right to issue export quotas. Minister of Agriculture, Roger...

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Organic manure spreader to help cane farmers

Religion
'Take back our country' says Bishop Reid
ST. ANN'S BAY, St. Ann: I HOPE we don't jump on the band wagon of claiming, "we want to take back our country". It sounds good, but when did we ever have it...

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Rev Al Miller lobbies for unity
Evaluate your life

Real Estate
We did what we set out to do - UDC
Western Bureau: THE URBAN Development Corporation (UDC) is claiming "mission accomplished" in the eviction exercise it carried out on Thursday against squatters, who had ignored last November's warnings not to build any new houses on the 474-acre...

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Built on an old cemetery

Portmore Journal
Beating the odds -Stamp rises from the pit of poverty
JOHN STAMP 29 years old, had humble beginnings. He spent his early years in Mountain View where his family had a small grocery shop, the profits from which sent the children to school. Robberies, escalation of the crime rate, and threats forced the...

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Portmore Week 2001

Lifestyle
The cheap thrills of Coronation Market
"Yuh want de yam or yuh don't want it...yuh fingle, fingle it up an' afta all a dat yuh still no want it...some a oonu just come a market fi run up people...

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Ease your stress at Jackie's on the Reef spa