BIZARRE! Nurse kills self, two daughters; murder-suicide shocks nation
Murder-suicide took on a bizarre face in the tourist capital of Montego Bay, St. James, yesterday, when a 41-year-old critical-care nurse reportedly injected and killed her two children with what is believed to be potassium chloride, before taking her own life.

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True United Sisters helping single mothers
Minors having high-risk sex
'Noel'-related rains wreaking havoc
Money a driving factor for early sex
Cop struggles with colleague's death
CWC legacy - Investments coming
Portland in development mode
CWC legacy - No foreign enquiries yet for Trelawny stadium

Track stars wed
Female sprinter Veronica Campbell and her husband Omar Brown, exiting the St. Augustine Anglican Church at Coral Gardens, Rose Hall, Montego Bay, yesterday.

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Chemical used in murder/suicide easily accessible
'Inna di bus' - Weathering public transportation in Kingston
Mitchell's lawyers get time to file affadavit
Burmese in Jamaica seek help for tortured monks
Director of Public Prosecutions drops charges against Fullerton
Woolmer inquest - Answers still being sought

NCB takes a risk - Offering unsecured loans to SMEs from $500m pool
The National Commercial Bank (NCB) is now offering unsecured credit or financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) whose working capital is tied up in outstanding receivables from their clients.

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Digicel, Telesur sign interconnect agreement - Suriname service rollout 'imminent'
Claims process on the 'up and up', says Advantage CEO
Ochi's $250 million expanded paradise - Relaunch planned for Dolphin Cove
The paucity of US policy on Cuba

Day of change for Jamaica Football Federation
THE MUCH-anticipated changing of the guard within the ranks of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), which will herald the return of Captain Horace Burrell to the federation's presidency, is set to take place today at a Special Voting Congress at Beaches Negril, starting at 9.30 a.m.

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Gayle, Ganga call for extended Cup format
Jamaica take to the waves in Chile today
Special Olympics Caribbean gets boost from Halloween party
The disappointments of KFC 2007
Football update
Sunshine Girls off to World Champs
Walker, Simpson rule
Jamaica win CEA showjumping title
Gone fishin' the hard way
Sportsmax - Arsenal, Man U in stalemate
Simone Edwards - Giving all she can for Jamaica
In Your Neighbourhood
Goule out to avenge only loss

EDITORIAL - The challenge of contending ideas
The furore this past week over reports of a textbook being used in some secondary schools with reference to same-sex unions as a type of family option has again thrown into sharp focus the challenge to the Jamaican society of contending values and view points, and how to deal with them.

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Cleaning up corruption
Silly Derrick, sensible Mike, sorry Bruce
The 'irony' of scrap metal
Families: same or both sexes?

LETTER OF THE DAY - No such 'recollection', says Stewart
The Editor, Sir: It was Shakespeare who said "Ambition should be made of sterner stuff". I would like to put it this way: Criticism should come from sterner stuff than Frank Pringle whose dislike for John Lynch is legendary.

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Tackling abuse
Our unsung heroes
The psychology of elections

Vexed rhymes for sex crimes
The brutal violation of another human being through rape and incest is a topic that many are uncomfortable discussing. However, for many entertainers, it is a topic they are trying to shed light upon through their music.

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Waters break at Philip Sherlock Centre
Another 'Movements' for Miss Lou with 'Only Fi Yuh'
Caribbean Flavour - Caught in the web

Visual culture of Jamaica's tourism
WITHIN THE past 20 years, visual expressions have become more increasingly popular than verbal and textual expressions in appreciating worldwide cultures. As Jamaicans become more sensitised to the definition of art, Couples Resorts ensures an indelible impression of Jamaica's art as visual culture.

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Literary arts - Rosie's Baby
Book review - A wonderfully entertaining novel
Literary arts - The Candidate

Gene Douglas knows it all
Gene Douglas, vice-president of corporate trust at Pan Caribbean Group, is a one-woman institution in her world. She is the individual who knows where all the bodies are buried when things go wrong, and where all the gold is to be mined in terms of good governance.

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Seven ways to lose weight in Jamaica
If you must cuddle something at night ... get a puppy!
'Badda Badda' the human microphone
Doctor's advice - A young guy and an older woman

Thoughts for the Golding summit
Prime Minister Bruce Golding and his senior ministers are today meeting with private sector high flyers and top guns at the upscale Ritz-Carlton hotel in Montego Bay in what has been dubbed a national planning summit. Will it be more symbolic than significant? (Boyne)

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Financing sports
Financing politics and Parliament's role
A nation of 'bad words'
'Boyne ignorant of Chinese history'

Rain can't stop the partying
Heavy rains which plagued the island last week could not stop the American Women's Group of Jamaica (AWG) from staging its gala movie premiere American Gangster starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, at Carib Cinema, last Thursday at 7:00 p.m.

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A perfect party
Coming home to 'St Bess'

Musharraf imposes emergency rule
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule yesterday, deploying troops and sacking a top judge in a bid to reassert his flagging authority against political rivals and Islamist militants.

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Russian pensioners protest
T&T election may create new power broker