Deploy super cops - Mixed views on impact of 'brand-name' lawmen
WHILE THE country awaits Prime Minister Bruce Golding's presentation of the new crime initiative, sections of the society are clamouring for 'brand-name' policemen to take charge of the streets again, while others...

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Motorists brave flooded Yallahs ford despite warnings
Opposition senator wants 'moral revolution'
Run transport sector on LPG - Wright
Energy minister mulls solar-powered lamps
Smith, man of 'boundless benevolence'
Social responsibility is good business
Chronology - CARIFORUM/EPA Agreement
Communities to benefit from Adventist camp

Portia eyeing national, not party, elections
PORTIA SIMPSON Miller is not only wooing the delegates of the People's National Party (PNP) to keep her as party president, but is also preparing for a general election, her campaign says.Easton Douglas, chairman of...

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Kintyre residents helplessly await more disaster
No building permits for Caribbean Terrace
KSAC stretched to the limits, but prepared
MPs given job of identifying farm-aid beneficiaries
The week that was: July 13-19
Post-911 visa-application boom
Mediating conflicts now a growing organisational trend

JP sells dessert company
Serious about getting rid of non-core businesses, agro processing and distribution company, Jamaica Producers Group (JP), has off-loaded its loss-making desserts subsidiary for $400 million.The conglomerate has sold Serious...

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Whiplash recovery more important than quick money
Hilton in charge - Stamps brand on historic Rose Hall property
Investing in mutual funds
Wentworth Graham, chief regulatory officer, JSE - Keeping tabs on the stock market
C&W Homefone rings - again, But now a post-paid product
Branding offshore Ja - Forget the back room, go for front-of-house business
Adobe Flash to become search-engine friendly
Sorrowful demise of sweet sugar

Swimmers shineon gloomy day
Swimmers Danielle Boothe and Alia Atkinson nabbed two more gold medals at the Caribbean Islands Swimming Championships (CISC) at the National Stadium Pool yesterday, boosting Jamaica's bid to win their first CISC title.

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Junior tennis finals cancelled
Golf Champs now 54 holes
Creary lifts Jamaica with solid 118
Pick-9 stumps punters again
Confident Jamaica face St Lucia today
Athletics: U-23 championships - Calvert wins 100m gold
Boyz, Guatemala match called off
Norman on the brink of history
Spain's Freire wins stage 14
Bad break for Wie
Barbadian riders hittop form in Canada
Coaching, environment, and the development of great players
Gonzales hurting on and off the track
All about timing for Stewart
Gordon eyes return to H View
Hamilton in pole position

If Jamaica is to avoid a crisis ...
It is entirely logical that Audley Shaw, the minister to whom financial markets look for guidance, would have said what he did: that any meltdown of Olint and the other unregulated financial organisations...

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PUBLIC AFFAIRS: How did we get here? - Part 1
Genetic link to speed, aggression?
Neither Portia nor Peter if ...
Reading Machiavelli in Jamaica

Letter of the day - Capital punishment as unchristian?
THE EDITOR, Sir: Human-rights advocates and some liberal clergymen continue to inveigh against capital punishment.

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Honouring our nurses
No change in philosophy
Prayers for Olint
Time for great leadership
Dangerous love game

Iquail Shaheed passes on passion
Some 50 Jamaican dance students are currently learning a bit more about love and dance, and love of dance, than they probably expected when they signed up for summer classes. Their teacher is the gifted American dancer-choreographer-teacher, Iquail Shaheed, who is now conducting a two-week series of dance workshops at the Tony Wilson Dance Centre.

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Dancer 'Condemned' to own company
Portmore Chorale gives 'Total Praise'
A Ginuwine mix
Roy shines ray on festival again
Dancehall not pressed into services - Dancehall gospel rejected in church worship
'Di Genius' at helm of Big Ship
Rain could not stop 'Musicfest'
Mavado rocks Sumfest
Fashion takes centre stage at Dancehall Night
No parables from Tarrus Riley - Singer clear on ambition, desire

Art & Autism
AUTISM IS a neurological condition which usually appears in children by age three. It is an impairment of brain function that is marked by deficits in social interaction and communication.

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Uncompromising (Part 3)
She Remembers
Book Review: A disastrous novel
LET ART live on!
Book Review: Daddy Sharpe - a reflection
The devil made me do it!
To snag a bishop
Wordsmith: A forum for examining the language of speech and writing
The bugaboo

FRIENDS ON FRIENDS: Jenny Jenny 'The sister I have always wanted'
To most persons, she's 'Jenny Jenny' - popular host of the television programme, Dancing Dynamites, and the effervescent MC at many entertainment and social events.

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Becoming a lady
How to liven things up
Get your cactus to bloom!
Choosing appliances
Colours and your moods
Turn off lights in empty rooms - 10 ways to save on electricity costs
Sexual myths and teen sex
Jennifer Foreman forges ahead
Technology and parenting - Part II: Save children from the 'alien'
Dear Jamaica: Make room
Conducting business electronically

The Portia vs Peter contest
The Daryl Vaz ruling, Bruce Golding's insistence that Abe Dabdoub must not sit a day in Parliament by fiat, added to the punishing rise in food and oil prices and the crime surge are primarily responsible for Peter Phillips' decision to challenge Portia Simpson Miller for the leadership of the People's National Party (PNP).

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Guided democracy or palace coup?
Peter's burden of proof
Jamaica's risk society
Prospects for a truth commission
Zimbabweans need hope

UWI'S diamonds shine
The region's premier institution of learning, the University of the West Indies, is 60 years old, and last Wednesday celebrated the diamond jubilee with a gala banquet at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in St Andrew. Although many had visibly wilted by the end...

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Benjamin's birthday bash
Miss Ja UK eyes a bright future
Out & About
Au revoir, Monsieur Ambassador
5 things to do this weekend

Out of the box - Sirgany scooped up by Rysa Racing
Rysa Racing, a karting team out of Opa Locka, Florida, had team members honing their craft at the recent international karting meet held in Jamaica.

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Jaguar Caribbean sales jump
Don't flog your battery to death
Servicing drive belts
Myers to compete in US Air Rotax Summer Shoot Out
Rough road ahead for GM - People want small cars, great gas mileage