JPS SHOCKER! Light bill hike rolled back; case heads to Appeal Court
A NEW twist has developed in the controversy surrounding efforts by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to recover the cost of damage to its equipment as a result of Hurricane Ivan.

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Gov't, Opposition sign Code of Conduct
'Rita' aims at flood-ravaged Louisiana
Joint agreement on political conduct
Phillips decries gaps in educational system
More crisis ahead for health sector - Baugh
A plea for a healthy Ja
Suspect held in stolen lectern case

Gleaner nabs top award
NEWSPAPER GIANT The Gleaner and Irie FM ran away with the major honours at this year's Jamaica Broilers Group Fair Play Media Awards, winning the main prize for producing the best investigative stories in the print and electronic media...

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Canada honours Jamaicans
CSEC WHIZ-KID - Brilliant Blake takes the cake
UWI student gets inaugural Hector Wynter scholarship
Synagogue in paradise recalls power of ritual - Toronto family revisits heritage - Son's bar mitzvah held in Jamaica
Thirty-year sentence for Gideon Warrior
Fifteen Cubans rescued at sea

United General backs away from private placement
THE UNITED General Insurance Company (UGIC) will not be seeking to raise funds through a private placement of its shares, financial advisers to the company say.

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Lawlessness, murder and impotence!
Small businesses get new funding source
Workplace gyms on the rise
A comedy of errors, or a bias against UGI?
JEA launches competitiveness company
Jamaica's technology portals
Observer gets chief executive

William Knibb on a roll
WESTERN BUREAU: THREE TEAMS, led by 2003 beaten finalists William Knibb Memorial, maintained their perfect records after scoring wins in yesterday's round of matches in the ISSA Pepsi/JN daCosta Cup schoolboys' football competition.

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Windies Games touted for 2009
Table tennis president banned
M'brook, KC ends in draw
Clan Carthy triumph
'I have to fulfil my own career'
Thumbs up for 'Respic'
Super Natural looks the one

Schools - progress and problems
ONGOING GANG warfare in East Kingston has forced the closure of Vauxhall High School for a day as teachers protest against inadequate security at the school. A main contributing factor to the teachers' concerns is that a protective wall that was damaged..

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Behind God's back
Creating poverty and hardship

LETTER OF THE DAY - Twin-parish drive to save wayward children
THE EDITOR, Sir: I HAVE often hoped that every single person born in Jamaica could be afforded the opportunity to leave these shores, even once in their lifetime and, preferably, for a First World nation...

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To young men and 'baby mothers'
Health hazard?
Backward move
Failure is not our purpose

Much 'hoodoo' about nothing
THERE ARE some skeletons best left in the closet, and the film The Skeleton Key is easily one of those. The film is hardly able to muster up enough energy to either scare or thrill.

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Star to auction gown to aid 'Katrina' victims
2005 Emmy winners

Mommy dear, it's me...your daughter - The ravages of Alzheimer's disease
PAIN NOW sits menacingly in the space where only Dundeen Ferguson's heart used to live. "It's painful when I look at my once vibrant mother and now her memory is gone and the behaviour change; it's sad.

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Alzheimer's disease - The silent and painful disease
Deep breathing exercises for stress management
Breastfeeding and family foods - (Nat'l Breastfeeding Week: September 18 to 24)
Inside the insulin pipeline
Stem cells promise miracles, but there's a dark side, too

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