Lead Stories
Some contractors 'must be able to access foreign funds'
DR. ALWIN Hales, Permanent Secretary for Transport and Works has admitted that an error was made when local contractors were invited to submit bids to the National Works Agency (NWA) for work under the Deferred Financing Road Rehabilitation Programme...

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Ja launches Ship Registry in London
Exhibition of dolls on today
Rema Reading Centre refurbished

News
Harding wants capital punishment abolished

DR. OSWALD Harding, Q.C., Leader of Opposition Business in the Senate, wants the Government to support United Nations' efforts to abolish capital punishment. Senator Harding tabled a resolution in the Senate yesterday calling on the Government to sign,.

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Massive downtown clean-up postponed
Pictorial history book to be launched
Gov't, construction firm in pay dispute - Over payment for work done on Overseas Employment Centre

Business
Oil from Venezuela to flow in Ja - 7,400 barrels a day under pact with CARICOM, Central America
GEORGETOWN, Guyana:

JAMAICA IS to get 7,400 barrels of oil and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) per day from the concessional oil deal Venezuela signed on Thursday with several Caribbean Community and Central American countries in Caracas.

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UWI spends millions to give public a peek
Boycott companies that pollute

Sport
Simpson mines silver in 400m

BRANDON Simpson ran a career-best 45.73 seconds in the boys 400 metres final to pocket Jamaica's second silver medal at the eighth IAAF World Junior Championships in Santiago, Chile yesterday. The medal was Jamaica's third of the six-day meet following..

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Jamaica safe bet for final
daCosta Inter-zone round kicks off

Commentary
For better markets
OXFORD MALL, the new market complex being built in western Kingston and now nearing completion after 10 years of on-and-off construction, promises to be a showpiece of its kind, with up to date fixtures and equipment and the latest in modern amenities. .

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DIARY OF A GHETTO PRIEST - The young and the future of Jamaica

Letters
Letter of the Day - The sugar question
THE EDITOR, Madam: WE NEED to examine the failed attempt at privatisation of the Sugar Company of Jamaica and the frequent calls for the demise of this industry. This failure raises a number of pertinent questions. Why did the Government maintain a...

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Who is responsible, gov't or the people?
Save the taxpayers some money!

Entertainment
Le Meridien's media tour
LE MERIDIEN Jamaica Pegasus' Pizza Cellar housed an intimate gathering of media personnel who were specially invited to join executives of the hotel, headed by general manager, Hans Basse, for a briefing on future plans for the property. A rennovation...

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Hortense Ellis is dead

Farmer's Weekly
Jamaican grapefruit in demand
LINSTEAD, St. Catherine: THE DEMAND for grapefruit from Jamaica is steadily increasing on the world market.

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World Food Day focused on schools
St. Mary residents recognised as landowners

Religion
Swallowfield focuses on leadership

HE EMPHASIS in the 30th anniversary service of Swallowfield Chapel last Sunday evening was on leadership as the church installed two new elders and a full-time pastor and announced its 'Youth Reaching Youth' ministry, which begins in January, to train...

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CCC Heads meet in Trinidad
Evaluate your life

Real Estate
Guarding against project overruns

This is the final of a three-part series on project overruns. - PROJECT VARIANCE, especially in relation to time and cost projections, occur far too frequently in contract execution, but there are steps that can be taken to minimise...

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Ann Hodges wins top prize for Hallin Bank