'Get foreign tutors' - Jamaica Employers' Federation head: Recruits would boost standards
Bemoaning sub-par performances by high school graduates, one private sector leader is calling for more foreign teachers to be recruited to address the crisis. Jacqueline Coke-Lloyd, executive director of the Jamaica Employers' Federation, says mediocre students...

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Surprised People's National Party (PNP) not farther ahead - Robertson
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) might pip leaders on line
AIDS alarm - Three million die daily
Prime Minister's bodyguard held with stolen motor car
District constables shoot down corps plans
Golding in cops' corner
Samuda urges forgiveness

The power of love (Pt II) - Brought back from the brink
When Yvonne Kirlew was diagnosed with lymph node cancer at the end of 2002, it was her husband, Raymond, who first accepted the reality and was determined to get her treated. Yvonne thought of taking another teaching job, but her husband said, “No, don’t. Let’s concentrate on your health.”

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Fakhouries vouch for peace - Sister and baby brother look to go one-two in St Ann
Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) head condemns threats to journalists
Open Arms embraces the homeless
45 MILESTONES - Honesty pays
Correctional Service resumes normality
Sportsmanship 'Summer Rally' gets on the way
Curbing your cravings

Customs ‘looks into’ allegations
WESTERN BUREAU: Customs officials are shying away from responding to the allegations of a breakdown in the financial management of Jamaica Customs Department (JCD) documented in the Auditor General’s 2005/2006 report. "It is not thetime to make a response," Hector Jones..

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Slave-trade souvenirs on sale this Saturday

Several leading female members join team in Brazil but...Top male sprinters withdraw
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Several top Jamaican track athletes arrived in Rio de Janiero yesterday on the eve of the start of competition at the Joao Havelange Stadium. National 100 metres hurdles champion Delloreen Ennis-London, one of the favourites...

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Bronze certain for Jamaica boxer who hasn't fought yet
Before I Do It checks out of jump
Protest stalls KSAFAU-15 final
Harrington wins play-off after day of drama
Argentina win U-20 World Cup
Johnson takes over at Herbert Morrison
Gibson takes all 10 wickets in an innings
Fraser sets up Miami victory
Alonso tops Grand Prix thriller
Nadal works overtime for Mercedes Cup
Visa, workpermitstall Chanderpaul

EDITORIAL - Reshaping ties with Canada
In Barbados last week, the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Stephen Harper, conceded that his country had in recent years 'neglected' the Caribbean, which his Conservative government is beginning to put right. The trip to Barbados, followed by a stop-over in Haiti...

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Change the course of corruption
Death of children on the roads
NOTE-WORTHY: Exemplary service

LETTER OF THE DAY - The violent ones should lose the right to vote
The Editor, Sir: It is the evening of July 18, 2007. I have just watched the news and there are problems surfacing in various areas of Jamaica, to do, of course, with the upcoming election. Moronic people are again shooting and killing each other over 'their parties'.

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Breaking the class bondage
Prophetic vision?
Congrats, Babsy and Sharon
Monitoring religious fanatics

Sizzling performers blaze at Sumfest
WESTERN BUREAU: King of lover's rock Beres Hammond reigned supreme on the final night of Reggae Sumfest 2007 as he stretched out his musical sceptre to the thousands of patrons in attendance at the Catherine Hall, Montego Bay, venue...

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Gunty wins Jamaica Culutral Devlopment Commission's (JCDC) contest

Sherrone Lobban Globetrotter for humanity
Iraq, Sudan and Lebanon are more likely to be associated with the international segment of the news than thought of as countries where a Jamaican has made her mark doing humanitarian work.Well, for Sherrone Blake Lobban, 33, they are all countries which she has made an impact ...

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Women urged to face challenges
Young leadership for Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
Threading your hair away
Here to stay
Who is entitled to vote?
The dos and don'ts of flying
Down with those cradle robbers!
Miss Jamaica belles on parade
MINDING YOUR MANNERS - Corporate etiquette and dress code
In mother's image
Politics and family life
Dealing with commitment phobia

'Country on the path to civil war'
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The leader of one of Trinidad and Tobago's largest trade unions says deep racial, religious and political divisions threaten to lead the country down the road of civil war, even as he slammed both government and opposition parties...

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Parliamentarians' pay hike under fire