Lead Stories
New anti-crime unit - PM outlines ways to curb 'rampant criminality'

A NEW proactive crime-control strike force "able to move anywhere and anytime in the Corporate Area" of Kingston and St. Andrew, specifically targeting "dons, deportees and other criminal elements" ...

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DPP studying police 'coke-guard' file
Anti-extortion hotline coming
Hotel to be skills training centre
St 'Bess' focuses on tourism education
Crime concerns more businessmen

News
Whiteman appeals for co-operation, discipline

EDUCATION MINISTER Burchell Whiteman said the referral programme being developed in the island's high schools will require the co-operation of parents, teachers and the general society to preserve discipline in schools. In a back-to-school address to...

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New batch of To teach Spanish in secondary schools
Moravian heads meet in Kendal
Crime threatens winter tourism prospects of MoBay

Business
Union proposes measures to save JUTC $30-m
THE UNION of Clerical, Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE) has proposed measures which it says will save the state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) $30 million over the next year in meeting the demands for increased wages and...

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Importers to pay up at Customs

Sport
Reggae Boyz march on

IT NEVER happened. The goalfest that the Reggae Boyz and their supporters were expecting and the "mashing up of the Office" which the St Vincent and the Grenadines party promised. Nonetheless the home side won the game 2-0 and picked up the three...

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Dunoon, 'Georges' in big clash
Melbourne on top again
Windies need a miracle
Big leap for Ja's Goulbourne

Commentary
Damage control
THE MINISTER of Water, Housing, and Sidewalks, Dr. Karl Blythe, assumed personal supervision of the urban renewal project which was shown last week to have gone haywire. Specifically, the Minister on Friday was directing reconstruction of concrete...

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Reactions in the crime debate
Whiteman: politician versus educator
Talking out of two sides of our mouth

Letters
Police strategies
THE EDITOR, Madam: I AM responding to an article, dated August 30, written by one of your esteemed columnists, Mr. Peter Espeut. In his piece, Mr. Espeut gives the impression that it is the low educational attainment of the policemen and women of the...

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Bovine facts about Brazil
Establish a national DNA archive
C&W and call restrictions

Entertainment
Miss Jamaica (World) finalists well received
THE 20 FINALISTS in the Miss Jamaica (World) 2000 pageant were warmly received when they made a recent appearance at the Sovereign Centre in Kingston. A fair-sized crowd gathered at the popular shopping mall with persons choosing vantage points in the...

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JCDC says thanks

Flair Magazine
Women taking charge

THE inaugural staging of the Small Businesses Association of Jamaica (SBAJ), "Business Woman Convention", took place on Wednesday August 30, at Alhambra Inn in Kingston. It was held under the theme, "Women Taking Charge in the 21st Century" and the guest.

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Back to school tips

Star Page
'Star Wars' exhibit makes waves

AN exhibition of the creative arts behind the making of the "Star Wars" movies with loans from Lucasfilm Ltd. in California closed at London's Barbican Center yesterday after drawing the largest attendance since the arts complex opened in...

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A 'gift of Vijjahn' indeed
See a doctor soon ­ Pastor