Bruce fires back - Dismisses nepotism claims as 'scurrilous'
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding yesterday rejected the Opposition's allegations that he had engaged in nepotism in the Ferry land saga, calling the claims "scurrilous". Golding was like an angry fast bowler when he spoke in Parliament yesterday, scoffing at the Opposition...

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Of politics and 'politricks'
Commish admonishes pranksters
Elderly men sentenced for human trafficking
Fewer barrels for Christmas - 11 per cent drop in domestic cargo
Death penalty debate left hanging
PCJ board chairman fired

Montego Bay lotto scammer convicted - Hanover woman gets prison time
WESTERN BUREAU: A Hanover woman became the first person to be convicted for activities connected to the infamous multimillion-dollar MoBay lotto scam yesterday, when the verdict was read in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court...

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Increasing attacks on women affecting firms
Cooke Street cries for help - Residents say water and roads in terrible condition
Violence rekindles tensions between Jamaicans, Caymanians
Lee Chin receives honorary doctorate
No Waite-and-see! - Senator pushes for 'preferred family' to exclude gay unions
$1 billion more to expand PATH

Citigroup exec lands FSC job
Rohan Barnett, an attorney who up to this year, worked with the world's largest bank, Citigroup, has been handed the job of running the Financial Services Commission (FSC), Finance Minister Audley Shaw announced Tuesday.Securities dealers did not...

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Additions to the Air Jamaica team
Wehby holds to inflation targets, says tourism won't crumble
Pepsi seals manufacturing deal with Angostura
Golding presses technocrats for speed on casino law
COMMENTARY - World's powerful meet in financial powwow - Caribbean offshore financial centres could weigh on talks
Harvard struggles as US economy worsens

Big DPL match-ups today
WATERHOUSE DO not have a problem scoring goals. They just have not been able to keep them out, especially in the past six matches in which they have conceded 14. But for three goals conceded from a free-kick and two penalties...

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JAAA goes with Flow
Coming into his own
Fearless Austin returns
$2.7m for Image Maker colt
Cricket bosses unprepared - and unwilling
STATHS take charge with win
New-look Jamaica off to defend one-day title
Francis not satisfied with Sunshine Girls win

EDITORIAL - With urgency, Mr PM
Like the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), we, too, are concerned about the recent slide of the Jamaica dollar, whose value has declined approximately five per cent against its US counterpart during the past month. But while we agree that devaluation has been a major ...

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National registration

LETTER OF THE DAY - Calling for a parent licensing authority
The Editor, Sir: It seems that PARENTING has become 'PAY-RENTING' due to the unbearable grief and excruciating agony we have to face where our children are concerned. I have reiterated over and over again that short strategies will not solve long-term problems.

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Keeping score for the people
Ignoring morals in crime plan
Too many road accidents
Complaint re non-payment for jury service
Why teaching is now a battle
The law and religion
Impact of the emergency contraceptive pill
Children have rights too
What DV really means

Breathing spaces
The warmth of the green greets the visitor to Peta-Rose Hall's office; "Why green ...well green is the colour of money," the managing director BPM Financial Limited says jokingly, but it is the serenity with nature that inspired her to choose this colour scheme.

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Musings of a serial entrepreneur - The power of right branding

puerto rico: spurning europe, governments stiffening penalties, limiting appeals
Push on for death penaltySAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP):Capital punishment is on the books across the English-speaking Caribbean, and governments are stiffening penalties and limiting appeals.

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Region mourns death of Miriam Makeba