Cayman disappoints J'can worker
WHEN 23-YEAR-OLD Sheila Baker received the news that she had been granted a permit to work as a medical office assistant at a hospital in Grand Cayman, she thought it was the answer to her prayers.

Support services struggling as World Cup looms
WESTERN BUREAU: AS THE countdown to the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup intensifies, there is now growing uncertainty as to whether or not some of the required local support services will be in a state of readiness ...

Fight or flight? Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf ­ Pt I
MS. EAST: FIRSTLY, LET me tell you that I find your articles extremely interesting and take many lessons from them from week to week.

The poor deserve more
DISCUSSIONS ON the provisions for expenditure in the recently-concluded Budget Debate, express the fear that the priorities of the Portia Simpson Miller administration is heading in the direction of populism.

Regulation of credit union movement coming soon
OCHO RIOS: AFTER A protracted period of discussions, the Government is now close to a workable conclusion regarding the regulation of the island's credit union movement by the Bank of Jamaica.

Gay rights activist's killer gets life
THE MAN who pleaded guilty last month to the murder of founding member of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All Sexuals and Gays, 59-year-old Brian Williamson, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Crime report with teeth
The Macmillan-led Special Task Force on Crime (STFC) is to be commended for producing a critical report. It is by no means perfect, but it is also not simply a rehash of previous reports.

Reviewing the National Security Strategy
THE GOVERNMENTS' National Security Strategy (NSS) was tabled in Parliament on January 7, 2006. It merely pulls together already existing

Rema Commission Report (Pt III)
THIS IS the third of a five-part series on the findings of a commission of enquiry conducted by the late Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court Mr. Justice Ronald Small into the forced eviction of residents from Wilton Gardens ...

CDB continuing to alleviate poverty
WESTERN BUREAU: IN CONTINUING its drive to alleviate poverty in the region, president of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr. Compton Bourne, has announced that the bank has procured US$258 million for its Special Development Fund (SDF).