'I'm frustrated'
JUSTICE CHESTER Orr, chairman of the Corruption Prevention Commission, yesterday described as "frustrating" the length of time it has taken to get the commission up and running. The former High Court judge expressed his...

Von Cork goes to prison
Possible drug link to double murder - Police
Tourism fallout looms
Decriminalising drugs could cut crime - US expert
PNP has healthy lead in the West

AIDS agency gets $1m
THE NON-GOVERNMENT organisation, Jamaica AIDS Support (JAS) got a much-needed boost yesterday, when it received $1 million from the National Commercial Bank (NCB). The money was handed over in a ceremony at the NCB's western office...

Last-minute crowds swamp SLB offices
Provident societies talk tough
Dennis Joslin has mystery venture

Strikers, JDF set for final
UNBEATEN teams, Millennium Strikers and Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), will feature in today's Credit Union Junior League semi-finals at the Leila Robinson Courts. The matches will be played simultaneously starting at 5:40 with...

Elite umpires off to poor start
Tivoli, Nets in Berger showdown
The problem with Friday racing

Tuberculosis
TUBERCULOSIS IS hardly known among the general population today. Annually, only about 114 Jamaicans contract the disease, and 80 per cent are cured. In one of our closest neighbours, Haiti, there are almost 9,000 cases per year. Haiti has just received...

Let the Prime Minister speak
A loss of values
Responding to suicide

Spaldings riots, the law and policing
THE EDITOR, Sir: AS A serving member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force I was quite alarmed and fearful as a direct result of the incident that unfolded in the Spaldings community two weeks ago. Frightened because of the actions of the misguided...

Jamaicans excel at US college
Where is the accountability?
Jamaica a hardsell
How did 'Titchfield' get its name?
Carmen Wilson
Cricket academy needed

Good show at 'An Evening of Excellence'
ON SUNDAY evening, children from the Meadowbrook Preparatory School, thrilled friends, parents and others by lifting their voices in song. The performance, titled 'An Evening of Excellence' was held at the Meadowbrook United Church...

Jamaicans in Trinidad hassle media personnel

J'can delegation visits MIT and Veracruz
A DELEGATION of representatives from the local port community left the island on Sunday, April 28, on a five-day fact-finding mission to the Manzanillo International Terminal in Panama and Veracruz Port in Mexico. The team will assess electronic...

Port community salutes secretaries