Lead Stories
Banana woes
Hylton hopes Clinton will resolve problem ANTHONY HYLTON, Minister of Foreign Trade, yesterday described as a "worst-case scenario", the European Union's (EU) recently announced "first come, first served" method of distributing banana-importing...

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Hamilton welcomes money for inner-city development
Corned beef recall 'precautionary'
PM tours water project
Dr Chung is new ACP president

News
Charles Denbow appointed Professor

DR. CHARLES Denbow has been appointed to the post of Professor in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, with effect from October 11, 2000. Professor Denbow is a distinguished clinical cardiologist of...

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Vendors allowed on streets for Christmas - Oxford Mall Market still incomplete
Energy C'ttee hosts safety awards
Support programme to be launched for disruptive students
The whispering church -- rumours

Business
LASCO buys $200m Guinness block

LASCELLES Chin's LASCO Group of Companies has purchased the old Guinness building located at Central Village, St. Catherine at a total cost, including refurbishment, of $200 million.

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New pipeline, old problems
Patterson urges strengthening of multilateral trading systems
Mossel readies for turf war
Fight for Jamaica - Orane

Sport
Big scare for Powell

THERE was a scare yesterday for West Indies batsman Ricardo Powell on the first day of the third trial match to select the country's Busta Cup team at Sabina Park. The 21-year-old middle order batsman who is due to leave the island on December 30 to...

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Time to put in Nagamootoo
Ryan Darby eyes Craven 'A' sweep
True professionalism still missing

Commentary
Immigration warning
CARIBBEAN NATIONALS seeking immigrant status in the US have been warned about con artists by the New York City sub-Committee on Immigration. It is a warning they would do well to heed, since as the committee has stated, they risk not only losing their...

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Christmas and family
All circuits busy at this time
Tourism: a national success story

Letters
Letter of the Day A tropical eyesore
THE EDITOR, Madam: SOMETHING IS really wrong with this country when the government declares that tourism is our number one foreign exchange earner yet does little to improve our tourism product. Two weeks before the recent heavy rains I took an aunt...

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The new millennium bogeyman
Stereotyping communities
Air J's improved service
Scholarly research needed

Entertainment
SuperClubs' super fete

WESTERN BUREAU: SUPERCLUBS ROLLED out the red carpet for several media representatives Wednesday night. A beautiful Persian rug dressed the floor of the Courthouse restaurant at Grand Lido Braco, where the group was hosted to an evening dubbed...

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Startime beach party

ShowTime
Gee Jam puts down roots in Portland

PORT ANTONIO is a world away from London's Gee Street and downtown Manhattan in New York in terms of distance and development. But given a choice between creating his music in those urban centres and from a state-of-the-art facility which has the...

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'Jack and The Macca Tree' opens Boxing Day
Woman in Film, Television in Jamaica launched

Star Page
Sisters Smith

TWINS Marsha-Gay 'Rushene' and Sasha-Gay 'Rushell' Smith, 12, from Brown's Town, St. Ann hate when people mix them up. So, they are always reminding their mother not to dress them the same way when they go to school or out in town (Brown's Town St...

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Long journey in love