Lead Stories
Ministry to spend millions on teacher upgrading

THE MINISTRY of Education is to spend $400 million on two programmes to help new and diploma-trained high school teachers upgrade their qualifications. Education Minister, Burchell Whiteman, who made the announcement yesterday at the Lasco Teacher of...

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Taxi-drivers vent anger - Block Corporate Area roads to protest colleague's killing by cop
Unruly J'can workers threaten hotel jobs in US
Region seeking joint approach to mail pile-up
Henry-Wilson, Robertson to be paid as party workers
Jamaica joins in promoting peace through tourism
Why am I not eligible?

News
House haggles over witness protection
THE HOUSE of Representatives on Tuesday approved the Justice Protection Bill, which aims to give a legislative framework to the Witness Protection Programme. However, passage of the Bill was not without controversy as Government...

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Commission hears oral submissions on minimum wage
Cop challenges dismissal from Police Force
Counsellor stresses importance of family values
Health authorities on the net
Two 'missing' Jamaicans found

Business
'A Touch of France' - More exhibitors flock to business exposition
THE FRENCH Embassy in Kingston and the Alliance Francaise in Jamaica yesterday launched the annual cultural and business exposition dubbed 'A Touch of France', to be held from October 8-11.

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InfoChannel acquires JOL Internet access business

Sport
Grange Hill shock Rusea's
WESTERN BUREAU: A NUMBER of upsets highlighted the end of the first round of the Pepsi/Sports Plus daCosta Cup competition yesterday. Grange Hill Comprehensive created the biggest surprise when they beat seven-time champions Rusea's Comprehensive...

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Crucial trial match starts today
New Boys' Town programme kicks off
Wakonda shines in feature
Jarrett's blasts rock Anderson

Commentary
Youth reform
IN RECENT weeks we have seen the results of just what a little love, support and discipline can do for our males, if only someone took the time to show them how to tap into their buried potential and channel it productively. Last week, five inmates at...

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The choice is clear
The next great depression?
Where is the tourism dollar?
Terrorists, Osama bin Laden...and Garwin Davis

Letters
Letter of the Day - Tourism deserves a Commission of Enquiry
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE RECENT terrorist attacks in the United States of America have once again highlighted the vulnerability of our tourism sector. A serious analysis is now imperative if tourism is going to remain an important pillar of our economy.

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Plaudits on tourism alliance
In praise of PM's speech
They shouted 'Put it on'
Rastas and religious liberty
Improving local agricultural infrastructure
Evil as entertainment

Entertainment
'The Annihilation of Fish' for Jamaican premiere

"HE'S A national treasure. Tony writes the best scripts," said producer Paul Heller of writer Anthony Winkler, writer of the movie The Annihilation of Fish,which is set to have its world premiere at Island Cinema in New Kingston, tonight.

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Port Royal Seafood Fest beckons
'Sumfest Seven' for court today
Gala affair at Scotia Awards

Cornwall Edition
Crackdown on knives at schoolboy games

WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST. James police's 'special squad', an arm of the Area One Operational Squad', has launched a new initiative aimed at disarming youngsters who take knives and other offensive weapons to schoolboy football matches. "We have to...

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Fast food fever
Two men charged in kidnapping case
Youth Link party, 1,000 strong
Red Cross in need of help

What's Cooking
Figure Friendly Fabulous Fast Food
WHOEVER SAID fast food has to be fatty and sugar-laden? Fast food was so named because a meal could be had in a hurry, usually inexpensively, yet provide satiety because of the quick-frying cooking method used in preparing large quantities of food.

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The spice of Jamaican cuisine

Star Page
Celebrities' privacy

"IT comes with the territory", is the common consensus among many of our Jamaican celebrities in relation to the invasion of their privacy via phone calls, video-taping, and uninvited guests at their homes. "It come een like a daily routine," says...

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Sister Melva - poet, screenwriter, mother

Festival 2001
Jamaica Spice - the best of Jamaican cuisine

FOOD FESTIVALS in Jamaica have become eagerly anticipated events not only for those who love to cook Jamaican food but particularly for those who enjoy eating it. The Jamaica Spice food festival, organised by the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) and presented.

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Love to cook? Come spice up yu life!