Lead Stories
'We expect calm' - Police, PSOJ hope for normality today - Prime Minister to meet business leaders
THE TOP Brass of Jamaica's private sector yesterday abandoned their executive suites and for three hours made a fact-finding tour of troubled inner-city areas of West Kingston as they move to formulate plans to restore peace and normality in the city.

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Tony Blair to visit Jamaica
Residents protest cop's killing
City violence a threat to tourism - JHTA
Jamaicans overseas raise concerns

News
Bouygues searches for local partners
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson has admitted that President Jacques Chirac has undertaken that France will provide the necessary financial support for Highway 2000, now that the contract has been awarded to French construction firm Bouygues.

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ODPEM, MOH ready for the worst
Group to ask for PM's help after mall fire
11-y-o slain by cousin
Imports, weather hurt farmers

Business
Unrest will be costly - Hundreds of millions in lost revenue

THE CIVIL disturbance in Western Kingston and its environs is likely to cost businesses as well as the Government hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, not to mention the repercussions it will have on the tourist industry and direct foreign...

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FINSAC's bad debt portfolios attract Cargill
Gov't macro economic policies bearing fruit - Davies
Healthy increase in revenues for RJR Group
Technology an engine of future Jamaica

Sport
Gayle on the double

HARARE, (Reuters): A CAREER-BEST 259 not out from opener Chris Gayle gave West Indies total control after day two of their three-day match against a Zimbabwe Cricket Union President's XI yesterday.

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Wonderful opportunity for WI's young batsmen
Uphill task for Jamaica
Ottey pulls out
Race meet postponed

Commentary
GSAT placement
THE GRADE Six Achievement Test, which has replaced the Common Entrance Examination, has just gone through its third run. The Gleaner has carried dozens of advertisements from schools in which students have been placed for them to come in. What is not...

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Trade, investment and poverty
Reaping the whirlwind

Letters
Letter of the Day - Upsurge, a suicidal cycle
THE EDITOR, Sir: I RESENT the rule of mobocracy. I resent the continued uglification of my country here and abroad, seeing the sensationalist images of people who don't represent me in deeds, words, manner or level of civility, portraying our nation...

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Stop the guns
We are all victims of the violence
The culture of 'divide and rule'

Entertainment
Venezuela celebrates 190 years of Independence

HER SOFT captivating voice echoed over the microphone and compelled guests into silence as she stood under the gazebo of her Jack's Hill residence. It was the celebration of the 190th anniversary of Venezuela's Independence and Ambassador of Venezuela...

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Breezes wins prestigious hotel award

Profiles in Medicine
Taming the beast - Focuss on HIV/AIDS

Entrenched stigmas, myths, discrimination and irresponsible sexual practices are some of the factors working in tandem to perpetuate the spread of HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, according to health experts. As the disease enters its third decade, its...

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The Jamaican Situation

Star Page
Entertainment Diary
Now showing Shrek - The Greatest Fairy Tale Never Told at Carib 5.Also go see the movie Sword Fish at Carib 5, Harbour View, Palace Cineplex and Island Cinema.The movie Tomcats starring Jerry O' Connell, Shannon Elizabeth and Jake Busey is at Carib 5...

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Crying over a cop