Five disaster areas -Worst-affected parishes identified for special help
FIVE PARISHES were yesterday declared disaster areas by Prime Minister P.J. Patterson during his report to Parliament on the recovery effort following last week's flood rains which devastated much of the country's infrastructure...

Missing Mico student in UK jail?
US trade policies a barrier to CSME - Moss-Solomon
'Butch' appeals for int'l help
Rights Bill a step closer
NWA to build new bridge in Portland

Privy Council to rule on juveniles on murder cases
KENT PANTRY, Q.C., Director of Public Prosecutions who is challenging a ruling by the Court of Appeal that it is unconstitutional to detain juveniles at the Governor-General's pleasure, said on Monday that he did not know if a date...

No problem with immunisation programme - Ministry of Health
Portland cleans-up in resheduled Labour Day
Jamaican tops graduating class at Howard University

NetServ is back
NETSERV COMMUNICATIONS (Jamaica) Limited is back in business, servicing a number of contracts and earning revenues since the first week in May. But the receivers refused comment yesterday on the amount of business the teleservices...

C&W sees a dark future
More than marketing to fix tourism - US Ambassador
Passage to India is quite an experience
Getting under an 'umbrella' for the hurricane season
US fortune vs Jamaican bureaucracy
Guardian aiming to dominate the region

Windies on revenge mission
THE FIVE-match one-day series between the West Indies and New Zealand gets under way at Sabina Park today with the home team on a mission of revenge. Two years ago in New Zealand, the West Indies lost all five...

South Korea humble Poland
Costa Rica make bold start
The class of the LA Lakers

Ban go-fast boats
DRUG-LADEN go-fast boats are so called because of their incomparable speed and ability to manoeuvre which enable them to outrun easily, other boats which are not similarly powered. For this reason, maritime law enforcement agencies have difficulty...

Environment weak!
Human failings

Religion is free, but...
THE EDITOR, Sir: ADDED ENTERTAINMENT last Sunday comprised a dozen or more comments on the Internet concerning Mr. Otis' astounding discovery that God isn't stopping by us, because Jamaicans make him uncomfortable!

Flat Bridge dilemma
Worried students
Thank you JADF
A dredging matter
ot about glory and fame

'Old Fire Sticks' make a merry bonfire at Calabash
WESTERN BUREAU: FOUR 'OLD fire sticks', as they were billed, created a merry bonfire in the Saturday evening sun at the 2002 Calabash International Literary Festival. However, as the original dub poet Oku Onoura pointed out...

'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones' - Great adventure film

Puffing away your health
"As it was reported almost 10 years ago in a risk behaviour survey, the prevalence of tobacco smoking in Jamaica has been estimated as 36 per cent among males and 11 per cent among females...

The anti-smoking lobby