A month of power cuts
JAMAICA PUBLIC Service Company's residential customers will be hit with more power cuts over the next month as the company struggles to manage a severe shortfall in its electricity generation capacity. A fire at the company's Old Harbour plant earlier...

Courtney's mind now at ease

PORT-OF-SPAIN, (Reuters): West Indies fast bowler Courtney Walsh said yesterday that reaching the 500-wicket milestone had taken a weight off his mind.

Hero's welcome for Walsh

A JUBILANT Courtney Walsh will receive a hero's welcome when he returns to Jamaica for the start of the fifth and final Test match against South Africa. That is the word from Prime Minister P. J. Patterson, who stated in his tribute to the fast bowler...

'Decreased funding' fuelled Golding's departure

A DRAMATIC reduction in funds flowing to the National Demo-cratic Movement since 1997, was one of the chief reasons for founding leader Bruce Golding's decision to call it quits on Sunday. NDM chairman Stafford Haughton said yesterday that Mr. Golding...