Crop damage rises - RADA estimates loss at $435m
PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES for crop damage and livestock loss following eight days of heavy rain have been put at $435 million by the Rural Agricultural Development Authority...

Met Office extends flash flood watch
Manufacturing sector hard hit
EVENTS POSTPONED
Flood damage round-up
'Enough funds for flood relief' - Peart

RADA develops a 'one stop shop'
THE RURAL Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) is developing an Agricultural Business Information System (ABIS) to provide stakeholders in the industry with data on crop production and marketing. The computer-based information system is...

Teenage mothers get second chance
USAID help for region
Green Expo June 7-9

Rains spell first shock for fiscal year - Cost put as high as $10 billion
THE devastation caused by flood rain that has been affecting the island for the past nine days will likely be registered as the first shock to the island's economy for the current fiscal year, and could plunge the country...

PSOJ recognises three top job creators
PM impressive on the world stage but not quite so at home
Chris Cargill and Brian Chung - An entrepreneurial success story
Auditors' independence from clients
How new Bill will affect companies
Vendor blockade - A symbol of general indiscipline
UNDP, ILO champion small businesses

World Cup kicks off
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP): ON THE eve of France opening their defence of the World Cup, coach Roger Lemerre saw one gain from the injury keeping 1998 hero Zinedine Zidane out of...

New Zealand full of confidence - Fleming
Argentina to go all the way
Training centre coming soon

Land utilization
THE LEVEL of devastation wrought by the flood rains is slowly unfolding. Precise estimates will take some time as the priority must be on emergency relief of those who have been flooded out of their homes or lost their means of...

Don't write off the sugar industry yet
The changing face of the rude boy

Is this not oppression and wickedness?
THE EDITOR, Sir: MY LATE mother was a fanatic about paying her property taxes. She 'knotted' and saved until she acquired the total amount and then off to the local post office she would go, to make sure that the payment reached the collectorate by...

Bert Cameron and the Wall of Fame!
Curbing national decadence
When did society sink so low?
Shame on talk-show hosts
Call in the Fraud Squad on the Gov't
A word for Mr Seaga

Two contrasting productions
BESIDES BEING playwrights with very different sensibilities, Roger Guenveur Smith and Anthony Wisdom are connected to the Caribbean in quite different ways. Two of their plays which I saw over the weekend reflect some of these...

'Tongues of Fire' lick the word