Lead Stories
Whiteman under fire

EDUCATION MINISTER Burchell Whiteman came under heavy fire from teachers yesterday as he attempted to defend a decision to cut roughly 300 teachers from the education system during the upcoming academic year.

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Strenuous efforts to resume hanging - Jamaica House notes public impatience
6,000 J'cans for US hotel jobs
Government aware of concerns - Mullings
CWJ cuts World Telenet telecom connections

News
Supreme Court building an eyesore, again

THE SUPREME Court building on King Street, downtown Kingston, which was refurbished 14 years ago with the assistance of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has become an eyesore once again...

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Maxwell's fraud trial postponed a fourth time
'Education needs a bi-partisan approach'
Teachers ask for 50 per cent increase
Carib District of Optimist convenes

Business
Bahamas has plans to regulate telecoms market
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP): THE BAHAMAS' Ministry of Finance has introduced a plan to regulate telecommunications rates in preparation for the privatisation of the Caribbean country's state-owned telephone company.

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Davies bidding for US$200 million

Sport
Top four in battle royal
IT'S down to crunch time or sudden death for the four top teams in this year's West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) regional Under-19 three-day tournament when the semi-finals get underway here today.

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Hall hangs up internation boots
Athletes in high gear for Sydney

Commentary
Targeting crime
GORDON 'BUTCH' STEWART'S tirade targeting the levels of crime in the country and the Government's seeming inability to deal with 'the disaster' should not be taken lightly. Mr. Stewart is, after all, a major player in the hotel industry, the chairman...

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On arms and self-defence
The gap grows wider
The deportees are Jamaican

Letters
The Kirschhoch mystery
THE EDITOR, Madam: AS A travel writer myself, I feel a need to address some of the concerns raised by one of your readers in his letter 'The Rescue dog and first class citizenship'. Aside from any feelings of sympathy I naturally have for a colleague...

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The challenges of policing and pursuing justice
Bad cops hurting a good country
Gun culture quandary

Entertainment
Pasta-licious

SINCE THE first recorded eating of pasta, over 7000 years ago, inventive and innovative chefs have been tampering with success.

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Lady Saw to sign with Shocking Vilbes Records
Bounty shares spotlight at Beenie's birthday bash

Star Page
Beenie's Birthday Party

DESPITE the fact that it was his birthday, it was Beenie Man - along with some of his friends from the dancehall culture who gave the presents - stinging dancehall lyrics...

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Browning and the baby