Clarke new PSOJ head
COUNCIL MEMBERS of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) yesterday elected Chairman and Managing Director of the Gleaner Company, Oliver Clarke, as their new president. Mr. Clarke replaces Citibank country officer, Peter Moses, who did not...

UK may deport drug 'mules'
10-y-o girl takes Portland Spelling Bee finals
Union-busting case for Privy Council
Japanese firm wins $b water supply contract
Raising issues at the Junior Councillors meeting
My pastor wants to have sex with me

All systems go for Gleaner auction
OK. IT'S December, and The Gleaner's auction is fast approaching. All systems are juiced and ready to go for the December 15 event at the Cinema II, New Kingston. "We will have better control of the persons coming into the venue because there is one...

Cat-and-mouse game downtown Kingston - Vendors remain determined to cash in on Xmas sales
Residents of squatter community cry foul - Eviction notices served on 250 families of Portmore Villas
Bus driver dies, four others injured in crash
High praise given to Jamaican teachers

Electricity from sugar cane milling
GOVERNMENT IS exploring a plan to produce electricity from sugar cane milling as it desperately seeks to develop measures to save the ailing sugar industry. The electricity generated would result in a reduction of the operating and maintenance cost of...

New tech centre at Bureau of Standards
US$250 million earmarked for Hedonism II, Negril

Wadadah's 'final' hopes fade
WESTERN BUREAU: WADADAH'S slim hopes of qualifying for the end-of-round final of the National Premier League faded at Jarrett Park last night after they were held to a 0-0 draw by Waterhouse in a rescheduled game.

Axum, Seba still in front
Griffiths out for a month
Pakistan give WI assurances
Wolmer's, Edwin Allen capture titles

Dilemma of the dons
THE DILEMMA of how to deal with dons straddles party lines. That much is clear from the flashback feature we published last week showing the fulsome funeral farewells given the likes of Burry Boy and Jim Brown. Stalwarts of the PNP as well as the JLP...

The revolution of rising expectations
Managing the environment
Yellow Hearts anyone?
My parent and my pimp - Child prostitution in Jamaica

Letter of the Day - The discipline of sports
THE EDITOR, Sir: THIS IS a reply to Lawyer Douglas' letter to the Editor published in The Gleaner earlier this year: The pursuit of sporting mastery carries with it a high level of discipline.

Let's have re-runs of Ring Ding
Ban birdshooting!
Preserving the language
Everol Orr, Lloyd Cole
Staff of GSB Credit Union
UWI defends paper for certificates
Butch Stewart, a noble Jamaican
Palestinians deserve statehood

Heart in dance, eyes on the scalpel
RICHARD FORRESTER is a dancer who has performed with the MultiCare organisation. He is also a skilled actor, having received a silver medal in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's (JCDC) speech competition. Time and again we hear people...

Billboard has two hot shots for Shaggy
'Pray for Love' launched locally

Major IT contracts - Investor nets AT&T, MCI, DirectTV
WESTERN BUREAU: THE NEWEST addition to the information technology (IT) sector was officially opened in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland last Thursday. The Westcom Call Centre, operated by local entrepreneur Norman Anderson, markets products and services...

Westmoreland to honour Local Government workers
Westmoreland Parish Council honours faithful servants
Thirty get Luana land titles

Ham me up! ham me down!
These days pork may be losing its -- well -- porky image, says cookbook author and Gleaner food columnist Enid Donaldson-Mignotte. It's now called the other white meat, and it's believed that pork produced today has 50 per cent less fat...

Ways with ham
Don't add waist this Christmas - Healthy alternatives to traditional festive foods
Sunday brunch on the go

The world of biotechnology
A LTHOUGH THE word biotechnology is relatively new, the area of human endeavour that it covers is not. Humans have produced wines, bread, vinegar and cheeses for a very long time and in Jamaica the production of rum is centuries old.

Protecting the gene pool of goats