Policing off-duty cops - Commissioner wants regulations for police, some on NSWMA payroll
The Police Commissioner, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, has ordered a review of the policy that governs the employment of off-duty police personnel. Karl Angell, director of communications at the Jamaica Constabulary Force, says the commissioner has directed that the policy review for the police....

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PCJ exec axed in bulb saga
Montego Bay firm owes $50m for electricity
Anglicans to mobilise Church Army in Jamaica
Probe into PRIDE projects
Zacca still leads PSOJ
Students caught in crossfire - Gunmen, cops face off in August Town

Miss Agatha in God's house
It was on a windy, cool afternoon earlier this week that I met Miss Agatha; a short, stocky woman wearing knee-high cotton socks and a scarf, sweeping the walkway leading to the Jeffreyville Methodist Church on Clover Hill in St Ann. "Hello please," said she...

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editors' forum - 'Government environment plan potentially dangerous'
AIDS deaths decline
Teacher on rape charge
Bruce promises hope in budget
Thursday talk
Another woman slain

Airport plan revised - Norman Manley now a $7.4b project
THE AIRPORTS Authority has revised the work programme for the Norman Manley Inter-national Airport terminal upgrade, extending the project completion time by eight months and adding a near half a billion dollars more to the bill. The adjustments have pushed the project cost on phase ...

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PCFS pays out $350m dividends
Audi zooms in on premium market - Audi zooms in on premium market
SVL to wind up three subsidiaries
'Finsac-ed' entrepreneurs form lobby group
Red Stripe wins Best of Chamber
Anya Schnoor, modern banker with old-fashioned values
Jamaica's copyright sector a $29b market - WIPO study places contribution at 4.8% of GDP
Bear worries -Investors nervous, but not Wehby
UNDERSTANDING THE EPA - Trade in goods schedule cumbersome
What's up with Companies Act amendment?
Letters - Who killed Cash Plus?
Hill launches microfinance bank

Key WI players to face Aussies - WICB
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC):THE WEST Indies Cricket Board (WICB) yesterday allayed fears that key West Indies players aligned to the Indian Premier League (IPL) would miss matches in the 2008 Digicel Home Series against Australia. Chris Gayle, appointed captain of the Sri Lanka leg...

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Ricketts calls for more camps
NSW trounce Victoria in final
Jamaica and the defensive game
Harbour View trounced!
August Town advance
Man U go three clear
The silence of the Rams
Diack goes to St Kitts
FROM THE BOUNDARY - A step in the right direction
Celtics end Rockets' run
Pick-9 payout could hit $3 million mark
HORSE SENSE - Claiming system needs to be re-examined

EDITORIAL - Focus on education funding
Edward Seaga, the former prime minister, who was recently appointed pro-chancellor of the University of Technology (UTech), often makes thoughtful interventions on the subject of education.He was on to the issue of early childhood education and the need for the upgrading....

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The looming global food shortage
NOTE-WORTHY: Missing boys story

LETTER OF THE DAY - Simple solutions to police problems
The Editor, Sir:I am amazed at the constant criticism and comparisons made about the Jamaican police by the many 'experts' who have no idea of the problems faced, but instead choose to look at the situation from their myopic point of view....

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Registration of fathers
New tests urged in cemetery fuss
Misleading ad on fertilisers
We need to fight against abortion
Obama and the race factor
Volunteerism for 'schoolers'
Concerns about kids and porn

Pulse's CMS-UK winner is PRIDE cover girl!
Winner of Pulse's Caribbean Model Search (CMS) - UK, Shareena Swinscoe, celebrated her first major magazine cover when she appeared on one of Britian's top glossies, PRIDE magazine.The 16-year-old cover girl has a fashion sense way beyond her years on the February cover, and is heralded...

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'Dramatic' visit at Philip Sherlock Centre
A taste of classic dancehall music
Halle Berry names her baby

Delicious cod
In Greece, there are two Sundays in the Easter season when all households cook codfish. The first is for the celebration of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary and the second is Palm Sunday. Vasilis Stenos, Greek photo-journalist, told The Gleaner that on these days...

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Fish for Lent, 40 ways in 40 days
The Saltfish Story (Part Two) - Atlantic Group - proud of Jamaican connection
A taste of Sister Minnie's pot
What a fracas!
FOOD IN THE NEWS
Is it really the master of pizzas?

Symphonic highs & lows
Although the mood at Symphony Under the Stars was dreary, when Chalice took the stage even the former education minister, Maxine Henry-Wilson got 'jiggy with it'. Patrons packed the lawns of the Cable and Wireless Golf Academy in New Kingston last Saturday for an evening of music....

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Cornwall College honours four
Hampton's mammoth milestone

The third pillar of science
The common misconception about computer science is that it is limited to writing programmes and learning to build software applications; however, it encompasses so much more that the director of the Computer Research Association...

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Ancient, pre-historic of Jamaica