Lead Stories
Sugar price hike
CONSUMERS COULD find themselves paying as much as $60 per kilo ($27 per pound) for refined sugar, the Sugar Industry Authority (SIA) said yesterday in confirming a steep increase in the price of the commodity. Vinroy Whyte, finance manager at the SIA...

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'Butch' on the warpath
Fiery speech from JTA head
Textbooks late for schools
Jamaicans in Los Angeles urged to forge links with local groups
When tourists are dishonest

News
New gas laws on way
NEW LEGISLATION governing the entire petroleum trade is being treated as a priority by the Ministry of Mining and Energy, according to Minister Robert Pickersgill. A draft document will be dispatched for comments soon and the legislation will embody...

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Shipwreck row in Cayman
Drugs still flow through airports
Kirschhoch may have had an accident -- US searcher
Clarendon residents to clean community drain

Business
Investor brush-off forces Boscobel probe - FINSAC 'unaware' of hotel chain's interest

FINSAC 'unaware' of hotel chain's interest FINSAC boss Patrick Hylton yesterday said he would examine why a potential UK investor was forced to withdraw his interest in the Boscobel Beach hotel after waiting more than two months in an attempt to get...

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Cooper selling Entertainment Centre
Centennial to use C&W towers?

Sport
Ja through to semi-finals
GEORGETOWN, CANA - JAMAICA knocked defending champions Barbados out of the 2000 West Indies Under-19 cricket tournament by forcing a draw in their final preliminary round match at Bourda yesterday.

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'Girlz' thrash Grenada
Sir Viv furious with West Indies batting
Let's party with Ice

Commentary
US political conventions
WITH THE closure of the party conventions, the American election campaign officially gets under way. With the advent of the primary system in the post-war period, American conventions lost...

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Michael Gayle: still no justice!
Growing sense of insecurity

Letters
Paulwell's mission
THE EDITOR, Madam: MINISTER PAULWELL'S attempts to create an Information Technology (IT) sector, by providing incentives for potential investors, and training to create a local labour force, demonstrates a proactive stance by his Ministry to create...

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Sex text backward for Jamaica
IOC should give Ottey a wild card
Too much begging going on
Carib Court has nothing to do with sovereignty
Searching for relatives of Catalina Molina-Campbell

Entertainment
Thousands attend Jamaica Day celebration

TORONTO: THE 10TH ANNUAL Jamaica Day celebration, was held recently at Keelsdale Park, Toronto. The event attracted one of the largest crowd to have attended such festivities.

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Sashi 2000 'Media Mingle'

Profiles in Medicine
Corn cuts cholesterol

BOILED OR roasted corn on the side has always been a part of Jamaica's culinary culture. This habit is getting the thumbs up from various research papers (some of them published in the European Journal of Nutrition and the British Journal of Ophthalmology

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Polycystic ovarian syndrome
Understanding impotence
Dry, scaly skin - Dermatologist says

Star Page
Sashi weekend

THE Sashi media briefing at the Devonshire Restaurant on Monday night was as informal as such events can get. There were no boring speeches by stiff-necked, tie-wearing executive types or self-righteous dronings about 'how great the upcoming event was..

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'She is my help ... my company'
Baby Cham's free kiddies concert
Dear Pastor - Forgiven but not forgotten