Dumping row stalls dredging
THE NATIONAL Environ-ment and Planning Agency (NEPA) yesterday ordered the Port Authority of Jamaica to suspend with immediate effect, all dredging work in the Kingston Harbour.

This follows a claim by NEPA that the Port Authority had breached the terms

Two killed in Jones Town
Windscreen-wiping teens get a way out
Campion principal, bursar to answer fraud charges

Under-nutrition in infants a major concern
CHILDREN BETWEEN 12 and 23 months, may be more at risk for developing nutrition-related health problems later in life, as they are still not getting adequate nutrition...

Simpson Miller avoids cass-cass
NCB confirms McFarlane's departure
Swabbing procedure questioned at Inquest

UWI, IBM in $240m computer contract
THE MONA Campus of the University of the West (UWI) has entered into a partnership with the computer firm IBM, that will see IBM providing the university with up to $240 million worth of continuous information technology service through IBM's Scholars Pro

Waste management authority to get financial injection

Windies in control
BRIDGETOWN: THE West Indies stroked their way into a commanding position on the second day of the third Test against India at Kensington Oval yesterday...

Mona, Wolmer's win six-a-side titles
Rothmans National Champs heats up

Pickersgill's contempt
THESE ARE trying times for the taxpayer. The country has not fully recovered from the knowledge that millions of dollars went down the drain in the infamous IT fiasco, and a report which states that an interfering Minister has caused millions of dollars.

JAS ­ out on a limb

LETTER OF THE DAY:
Begging versus a sense of responsibility
THE EDITOR, Sir: I WAS once an avid donor to recipients of vast organisations found on the streets of Kingston 'begging' for their cause. Then one day, it struck me that this is not good, effective or worthwhile.

My realisation is that I work very h

Nurses declare anti-violence stance
Bravo Digicel!
The promise of Navy Island

Drummers hit the right beat
WHOSOEVER SAID that you cannot see music, had obviously never seen the hearing-impaired sing. The event was a lunch hour concert put on by the University of Technology (UTech) Centre for the Arts on Wednesday. To say that the day was sweltering ...

OUT &AROUND

Sweet plans for sugar industry
WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER Edward Seaga has proposed the fast-tracking of a US$106-million plan to irrigate 20,700 hectares (51,151 acres) of land, which could yield at least an additional $6 billion in agricultural output.

Westmoreland a leader in domestic crop production

Pothole-free roads by 2003, Pickersgill promises
WESTERN BUREAU: MINISTER OF Transport and Works Robert Pickersgill said yesterday that by 2003 Jamaica's roads would be pothole free. He said the Government was committed to this task and already had allocated about $750 million to patch roads this...

J'can companies to trade industrial waste online

Money talk$
OMAR DAVIES recently bared his figures to the nation. In his $210 billion budget presented on April 18, the Finance Minister laid out the shape of things to come for the next 12 months. Since then the country ­ or at least those in Parliament,.

Hot bath cold reality
Bath Fountain and Spring, so serene but so disappointing