Lead Stories
Tourism, Air J bail-out - Government announces measures to avert more damage

THE GOVERNMENT yesterday announced a slew of measures to avert further damage to the local tourism industry with the allocation of an additional US$8 million. Principally it will go towards advertising but there will also be financial support...

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Gleaner presents profit from 'One Love' to Red Cross
Seaga hits at PM's address
Airlines set to increase fares
United against terrorism
Breast cancer in Jamaica

News
J'cans languishing in US lock-ups
SCORES OF Jamaicans awaiting deportation from the United States, some of whom have committed no criminal offences, are reportedly languishing in county lock-ups across America because of neglect and bureaucratic delays by Jamaican authorities.

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Two to serve life sentence for murder
Soldiers, cops at hearing loss risk
Mail service delayed - Two weeks after terrorist attacks on US
Seaga blames PNP for tourism fall-out
Trelawny residents stage peaceful protest

Business
FINSAC still negotiating LoJ sale

VICE-PRESIDENT IN charge of the individual line of business at Life of Jamaica (LoJ), Paul Lalor, will be leaving the company ahead of a final agreement to sell the island's largest insurance firm to Barbados Mutual Life Assurance Society.

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Go-Local hits Manchester
Increase in JAMPRO investment projects
Highway 2000 due to begin construction in November
Tech know - Tourism in more trouble - how the Net and Technology can help

Sport
Brown, Cargill take command

THE NATIONAL Stadium resembled a ghost town yesterday. Despite the fact it was the first day in charge for newly-assigned temporary technical directors of the national football team Carl Brown and Peter Cargill.

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Samuels' XI restrict Hinds' XI
STETHS, Munro overcome rivals
St. George's hold Bridgeport
Campbell aims for WI berth

Commentary
A call to unity
IT IS going to take bold and innovative thinking, inspired leadership and unparalleled unity for this nation to weather the ill effects of the events of September 11 in the United States. What happened in New York and Washington on that date is, in the...

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The economic fallout
Disasters waiting to happen
Focus on Trinidad and Tobago politics - Robinson's 'backing down' presidency
Religious fundamentalism and the scourge of violence
On being eighty
Flying in the face of terror

Letters
Re patois and Anancy
THE EDITOR, Sir: As a Jamaican who lived in England for some years, I was accustomed to using patois at home and English elsewhere. I arrived in Australia just before the demise of the White Australia Policy, so you could say there were few non-whites...

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Letter of the Day - Testament to the Jamaican spirit
New York firemen hailed
Retaliation and revenge
In memory of a KC old boy
Women, men and standards
In praise of J'can Men's Summit
Let us rebuild
No political favouritism
Strengthening the John Public-JTB tie
The ganja report

Entertainment
John Jones remembered

THE LATE John Jones, singer, actor and radio announcer, was remembered yesterday as Mediamix presented the first John Jones Bursary to Othneil Halliburton, a student at the Jamaica School of Music (JSM). This took place at the Jamaica School of Music...

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'Heroes' telethon raises US$150 million in pledges

Profiles in Medicine
Focus on Abortion - Is the foetus a person? - exploring the issue of abortion

THE COMPLEX abortion issue hinges on the essential philosophical question: "Is the foetus a person?". Many medical practitioners and bioethicists say that there is no question that life begins at conception when the human egg is fertilised by the sperm...

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Complications of 'botched' abortions
A pro-life perspective

Star Page
Claudette Lindsay has the gift

THE ABILITY to deal with children is special, to be able to teach them is a gift. That is what Claudette Lindsay of the Broadleaf Basic School in Manchester, who has been teaching for over 10 years, believes. "You have to be patient and tolerant to...

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Covering up not a lack of creativity but a yearning to be known
Dumbstruck!
Little big girl