Lead Stories
Charles beats Broderick - Former JLP deputy leader to run in North Central Clarendon

VETERAN TRADE unionist Pearnel Charles will contest the North Central Clarendon constituency for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the next parliamentary elections which are constitutionally due at the end of 2002.

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Road marches end Carnival 2001
A transformation in Rema
Braeton Seven did not surface at Summit
Phillips targets rural roads
Project launched to promote positive sexual behaviours

News
Broadcasting Commission to focus on programming standards
THE BROADCASTING Commission, in a bid to improve standards in the local cable industry, is to embark on a national consultation on programming standards. It will seek public opinion on a revised set of standards for programming content, Major Ian...

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CARICOM happy with concessions to small states
Overseas press hurts tourism
Doctorate for Tourism Minister
A new approach for a way forward
I hope you appreciate the disgrace, RM tells woman

Business
Technology will save $millions - Mullings

Technological developments, such as Geo-infomatics, will save millions of dollars through increased productivity and efficiency if applied properly to areas such as agriculture, natural resources management and environmental control, says Deputy Prime...

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Partner plan... complaints down to a trickle
Arthur urges recognition to patterns of developent

Sport
Windies set to celebrate
AFTER three days of riveting action and one spoiled by rain, the fifth and final Test of the Cable & Wireless series between the West Indies and South Africa at Sabina Park enters its fifth and final day today, and as it was at the end of the third...

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Windies name one-day squad
Ja lift CABA crown
Young Reggae Boyz lose again
Waulgrovians top Jamalco again

Commentary
Cellular phones
THE NATIONAL propensity for talk has received a boost with the launch of another cellular phone service. Never before have we witnessed as intense a marketing campaign as both Cable and Wireless and the new kid on the block...

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The anti-rights campaign
Diplomatic and advertising language
Highway 2000 ­ the feasibility

Letters
Letter of the Day Parliamentary reforms
THE EDITOR, Sir: Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed? ­ Count Oxenstierna. IT IS my opinion that the present system of government in Jamaica needs radical changes ­ reforms which...

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MoBay Plan needs support
Building a new Jamaica
Proper child rearing practices
A challenge to parents

Entertainment
J'ouvert brings all-night revelry

THE LARGE amount of trash, mostly paper plates and cups, strewn all over the Raiders mas camp on 1C Oxford Road, Kingston at 8:00 a.m. Saturday, was an unlikely end to the all-night Friday j'ouvert party and street parade. At 1:00 a.m. there was a...

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Golf course tees off with a party

Flair
No job - "I don't see a future here"

SOME people may say the church has failed them or parents or boyfriends have failed them. But at 21 years old and after leaving school for so long and still being without a job...

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Standing up and out The way to get promoted
In a woman's world Going to the market, man style
Deanall Barnes - Education all the way

Star Page
Bacchanal time
ASIDE from one woman passing out and a few eye-catching costumes displayed in the road show of Jamaica Carnival 2001, the occasion came and went in a fairly tame fashion. Though there was the usual jumping, humping, screaming, balloon throwing and...

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Abusive husband is not supportive of his family