Cabinet ponders cash schemes
FINANCE Ministers Audley Shaw and Don Wehby will tomorrow report to Cabinet on the outcome of a meeting held on the weekend, which could help determine the fate o investment schemes.

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Poverty haunts the elderly - Real numbers being missed by official statistics
Air Jamaica offloading staff
Bread price rises again
Peter not afraid to challenge Portia ...but focusing on rebuilding PNP
Bartlett bashes church's anti-casino stance
Green Bay survivors remember - 30 years after killings

PNP needs healing, rebuilding and renewal - Meeks Report
THE LEADERSHIP of the People's National Party (PNP) has been strongly urged to undertake a comprehensive rebuilding of the party. Such reform could also mean that the PNP might have to make amendments to its constitution in light of what party chairman Robert Pickersgill calls "far-reaching" recommendations contained in the Meeks Report.

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A single 'Pearl'
Time to find common ground - Phillips
2008 wish list for crime reduction
Kenya's President tells US diplomat he is ready to form unity government

Yuletide cash up, but value of transactions below expectations
For the Yuletide season just ended, Jamaicans withdrew $6.175 billion from the Multilink network during December 2007, the apex of the shopping season. But operators of the service say activity at automated teller machines and point-of-sales terminals, which are used as proxies to estimate retail activity, was below expectations.

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A DeVine taste for fine wine
Acquisitions drive 2007 regional stock-market performance
WEEK ON THE WEB - Websites to help kickstart your New Year resolutions
Challenges expected for Carib countries adopting the EPA

Jamaica can reach South Africa, says Simoes
FULL OF conviction that Jamaica possesses the talent to qualify for the 2010 World Cup Finals in South Africa, Professor René Simoes returned to the island yesterday to begin his second tour of duty as technical director of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), under a three-year contract.

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'Premier League good for January'
Man U oust Villa from Cup
Kumble's strikes rein in Aussies
Racial abuse hearing delayed
Jamaica lead Leewards on first innings
Top guns dominate Cross Country
Walker boots home a double at Caymanas Park
South Africa draw level
Goule, Barnaby shine
Richards the greatest - according to Botham
Tivoli to hunt full points
Powell new western confed boss

EDITORIAL - The high cost of crime
There is one consequence of Jamaica's grave problem of criminal violence to which relatively little public attention has been given it impacts a vast number of people on a continuing basis ... But, as this newspaper reported on Friday, Jamaicans are paying a pretty penny, literally, for the society's endemic violence.

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Kenya and Jamaica
Political correctness gone mad
New year, new hope?
Cop executed: a father butchered

READER'S WRITE: 'Free at Last' - strong tale of Wayne Weekes' life
'Free At Last' is a musical event and the dramatised testimony of Wayne Weekes, a Barbadian who lived a life in the fast lane full of anger, hatred, drug-dealing, women, voodoo and witchcraft, in the United States for 15 years.

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What makes Jamaica so great
Reader's Write

'G'enerally little fun for children
In a land dominated by dancehall, it is hard to find G-rated entertainment for family fun. As it is an environment littered with lewd and often violent lyrics. bringing children to a dancehall event can, and does expose them to unsavoury aspects of life.

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An 'Exodus' of dubs on Red Hills Road
'No Lickle Twang' at UWI
Inflation deflates promoters

Art-filled memories
The year 2007 has come to past, but, art-filled memories linger. It was a year of undeniable excitement for the lot and barrel of art aficionados. A significant number of Jamaicans reacquainted with their own passions, while others discovered their talent for art.

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Competition winners!
Renew your passion in '08!
Literary Arts - Anna's babies
The Wordsmith - Clearing the aisles

Surf's up!
SURFING! Flip through the pages of a typical surfers' magazine and what do you see? You won't see any scantily-clad male surfers in the advertisement for equipment or clothing. But you will see that many companies now offer product lines catering to women surfers.

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Single in the city - Google the guy
Doctor's advice - Why has she changed?
Soft side of the featherweight champ

Building the Jamaican nation
Now that all the festivities of Christmas and the New Year are over, we can spend some time in a more sober reflection as to our situation as a nation. There is probably no other culture in the world that treats the festivities of Christmas and the New Year in quite the same way as we do in the Caribbean. (Phillips)

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Rescuing Jamaica in 2008
The 2007 Cross, Angry, Miserable Awards
Women leaders in a violent world
Liaquat Bagh (Part 1)

Destination Party Central
Destination Tokyo invaded the grounds of the American International School of Kingston on New Year's Eve. The young and the fabulous came out dressed in little hot "freak 'em" dresses and the men added layers creating a very trendy style. They were hot!

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Ringing in the New Year