Hello Carib Festival, goodbye Caribana
TORONTO, Canada: A NEW day is dawning for summer carnival in Toronto. This year the Toronto Caribbean Festival will replace the 38-year-old Caribana. But not everyone is warming to this make-over and Monica Pollard, chairperson for the Caribbean Cultural.

The George Proctor saga
LAST WEEK, as George Proctor's lawyer pleaded with Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey to grant him bail, the American botanist sat quietly in the packed Half-Way Tree Court. There was no change in his demeanour when she turned down attorney...

Runaways and stray thoughts
"IS THIS your first visit to Pair-ah-dice?" the Montego Bay immigration official asked me. I wanted to tell him that the only pair-ah-dice I knew were either in Monopoly or Craps, but seeing that I wanted to pass 'Go' and did not want to go to jail...

Low turnout for voter confirmation
REVERIFICATION OF voters who failed to meet the March 31 deadline got off to a slow start at some constituency offices of the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) yesterday. The EOJ commenced a special hearing for those voters...

Portia to speak on Budget today
PRIME MINISTER Portia Simpson Miller will today make her inaugural presentation to the Budget Debate in Gordon House where she is expected to respond to several burning issues raised by Opposition Leader Bruce Golding last Thursday...