PNP breaches 'Code'
'Baby Seaga' coffin at rally; Party apologises to family
POLITICAL OMBUDSMAN Bishop Herro Blair ruled yesterday that the display of a coffin bearing markings about 'Baby Seaga' at a People's National Party (PNP) meeting in Clarendon on Wednesday was in breach of the Political Code of Conduct. He also demanded..

High price tag on North Coast Highway
GLEANER-DON ANDERSON POLL:-
PNP not favoured for a fourth term
Disability law coming
Another farm worker dies tragically in Canada

JTB's Mignott quits post in NY
NOEL MIGNOTT has resigned as the Jamaica Tourist Board's (JTB) Deputy Director for the Americas, amid investigations into operations at the JTB's New York office, but this was not asked for by Tourism Minister Portia Simpson Miller, the Ministry...

Cops intensify search for more death pits
Disability law coming
Police crack illegal house rental ring

Illegal street vending a problem in St Elizabeth
BLACK RIVER: IT'S NO secret that the St. Elizabeth Parish Council has been struggling to deal with the problem of illegal street vending in the major towns of the parish. The problem, councillors admit, is most prevalent in Black ...

Repairs under way at MoBay's Abattoir

FOOTBALL:
Schoolboy football kicks off
THE 2002 SCHOOLBOY football season gets under way this afternoon with an opening ceremony and double-header at Jarrett Park featuring the champions from last season's Pepsi/Sports Plus daCosta Cup and Manning Cup competitions. Triple champions Cornwall..

ATHLETICS:
Jones hits golden jackpot
HORSERACING:
Dancing Flames gets the nod

No fixed election date
WE ARE not surprised that the leaders of the two major political parties are against a fixed election date. After all, changing the present system would eliminate one of the more powerful levers a Prime Minister can wield to maintain his status as primus.

Rescuing a lost generation in Tower Hill

LETTER OF THE DAY -
Homophobia and Jamaican music
THE EDITOR, Sir: A RECENT article in the media in the USA indicated that international artiste Janet Jackson has been receiving much criticism for her professional association with Jamaican reggae star Beenie Man.

Apparently Janet and Beenie are collabo

Intellectual excellence and mental slavery
Making solar energy work for Ja
Our self-imposed 'pigmentocracy'
Mr Patterson erred on Gonsalves issue

'1962' exhibition unexciting
AS IT SHOULD, the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ) has been celebrating the island's 40th Independence anniversary. One form the celebration has taken is the mounting of an exhibition, simply titled '1962,' in one of the Institute's exhibition rooms...

OUT & AROUND

New sugar factory for western Ja
WESTERN BUREAU:

PLANS ARE well advanced to build a new sugar factory complex in western Jamaica that will serve the sugarcane growing areas of Trelawny and St. James. The final hurdle being is to present the project to the Planning Institute of Jamaica

Growing callaloo for export and local market

Portland water revenues lost to unaccounted for water
The National Water Commission thinks it is losing about 70 per cent of the water it supplies to Portland, but really doesn't have the infrastructure in place for a true estimation of unaccounted for water (UFW) to the parish.Nor does it know ...

Sustainable drainage urgently needed

Education is the way out
A few years ago the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), in partnership with the World Bank, built a mini community centre on the land which houses the St. Paul's Anglican Church and basic school. The community centre was turned over to the Tower Hill..

USELESS FACT OF THE WEEK