e-Learning glitch - Multibillion US-dollar project stuck in pilot phase - High schools still to receive computer equipment
Major glitches in the Government's e-Learning programme have delayed the implementation of the multibillion-dollar education initiative by almost a year. As a result, thousands of secondary school students, who should have benefited from the proposed improved instructions promised under the programme ...

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'Equipment contract delayed project'
Kern back in court tomorrow
Affordable homes in draft for young professionals, says housing minister
Pastor Colliston Coburn - Called to save 10,000 men
Senior education director under probe - Accused of planning to upset work of ministry
Utility bodies to be charged for use of rights-of-way
La Roose shooting victim under police guard

Inner-city residents seek to own government property
AS THE Government continues its drive to rake in millions of dollars in uncollected property taxes, a number of inner-city residents, who are occupants of hundreds of tenement yards left abandoned by their rightful owners, have expressed an interest in paying up the arrears in order...

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Keeper of the heritage - Maroon Chieftess Gloria Simms
Carrots in the 'breadbasket'
Youth advocacy conference launched
The Abotion Debate
Police Use of Force and Firearms Policy
Our feathered friends

Falmouth to get new port
The Trelawny capital, Falmouth, is among several Caribbean cruise destinations set to benefit from port development in the region. This is part of the global preparation being made by Royal Caribbean International for berthing of the newest and largest class of cruise ships...

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Air Jamaica answers to public accounts committee

West Indies battling to avoid follow-on
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):Ramnaresh Sarwan missed out on a century as West Indies were left battling to save the follow-on at the close on the third day of the first Digicel Test against Sri Lanka at the Guyana National Stadium yesterday. Sarwan, playing in his first Test since last May...

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Goule, Campbell smash records
Jamaica win silver, bronze in Carifta games water polo championships
Scott breaks national record
Dixon wants tighter defending from Portmore
Brissett stakes claim with splendid hat-trick
Missed chances galore in Montego Bay
Waterhouse end drought
FROM THE BOUNDARY - The changing face of cricket
Aqua yearning for top-flight action
'Trinis' aiming for victory
Harbour View, Arnett in Champions Cup feature
Bomber explodes in Easter Sprint

EDITORIAL - No magic wand in budget message
Prime Minister Bruce Golding and his finance minister, Audley Shaw, have been wisely attempting to temper public expectations about the budget that Shaw will table in Parliament this week.There will be funding of around $3.5 billion for the campaign promise of expanded free health care...

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Caught on camera
Kern Spencer should resign
NOTE-WORTHY: From the archives

LETTER OF THE DAY - Barbados ahead of Jamaica on legal abortion
The Editor, Sir: Jamaicans think of Barbados as that conservative island that barely fits in the Caribbean. Yet, quietly, 25 years ago on February 11, 1983, the then Governor-General D.H.L. Ward gave his assent to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act which broadly extended...

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Electricity theft unpunished
Young people must change Jamaica
Enough of teacher-bashing
Judging tourism performance

Stolzoff returns with 'Louder Than Words'
EIGHT YEARS after his book on the mechanics of dancehall music became a minor hit in the United States, American anthropologist Norman Stolzoff is digging in to make a film about reggae's outrageous offspring. Louder Than Words is the title of the movie Stolzoff hopes will be released...

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Lessons from Filomena Navarro
Carnival again!
Icon - King Tubby reigns
Mitchum Chin: Reggae's new guitar hero