Tax axe falls on churches
CHURCHES ACROSS the island will now be required to pay General Consumption Tax (GCT) on all goods and services purchased for which the tax is applicable.

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Murder rampage
12 slain in weekend attacks
Security costs bleed firms
Going, going, gone...
Exodus of companies cripples island's production
Communities march for peace
Cruise ship visitors set to break one million mark
PNP conference powers off this week

Grinding to a halt
One local manufacturer's struggle to stay in business
THE FACTORY is empty. The fans are dusty and all signs of production have come almost to a standstill. All that is left for manufacturers Lloyd and Patricia Heath to do is close their doors, send home their two remaining workers and return to England...

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Cabinet to decide on St Thomas bridge
Ministry to speed up work on Spanish Town intersection
Food for the Poor gives drops for pink eye
Résumé make-over

H&L merges with Rapid & Sheffield
HARDWARE & Lumber Limited and its subsidiaries including H&L True Value and H&L Agri-Marine Limited have merged with Rapid & Sheffield Company Limited and Agro-Grace Limited, according to John Mahfood, chief operating officer of Grace...

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Jamaica should go it alone in cruise tourism
Fair Trading Commission slams bid-rigging corruption
Lara to speak at Carib Entrepreneur Conference

Portmore United kick off against newcomers Cosmos
CHAMPIONS PORTMORE United, formerly Hazard, aim to open their title defence on a positive footing when they kick-off the new Wray & Nephew National Premier League season against promoted Star Cosmos at Ferdie Neita Park today.

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Perfect Ten's Pick-3
Gleaner clip JUTC 2-1 to reach final
Commentary - It's now king football, not king cricket
Western-based teams ready to roll
Vauxhall shock KC
Double Wicket Champs set for Discovery Bay

Editorial - The 9/11 watershed
EVEN THE harshest critics of the United States and its foreign policies would have felt much sympathy for the people of that nation when in a matter of an hour and a half on September 11, 2001, three terrorist strikes hit at the symbols...

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The empty promises of free trade
Open more factories, not prisons
Terrorism and a state of panic
Crime and punishment

Letter of the day - Welcome Corporal Fraser and thank you!
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE NEWLY-FORMED Taxi Association wants to extend a long-deserved welcome and thank you to Corporal Fraser of the Spaldings Police Station.

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Keeping dolphins in captivity
Why factories close
Insurance still hurting

Kulcha Knox - Remembering a dark day in history
ON THE night of September 11, 1987 Peter Tosh was at his Barbican home with his common-law wife, Marlene Brown, popular disk jockey, Jeff 'Free-I' Dixon, his wife Joy and herbalist Winston 'Doc' Brown.

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AJ Brown lives art and music
Seretse jazzing with dancehall
Social - Chicago: A gateway to high culture and finance

White River Valley - A photographer's paradise
IN 1494 when Christopher Columbus set foot on Xaymaca, the land of wood and water, he would soon discover the most beautiful isle in the Caribbean, inhabited by the peaceful Arawak Indians. The Spaniards also came upon a hidden valley in the hills...

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Artie and the minimum wage
Book review - The roots of teaching
Going to Hollywood

Cover Story: Ian Boyne - Man of charisma and magnetism
IAN BOYNE, one of the most prolific interviewers himself, is camera-shy when the subject is himself.

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A young deejay in the making
Gretel Lawrence, Parliament's grand dame, departs

Ja, Cancun and the int'l economy
THE APPRECIABLE levels of media coverage which have been given to the Fifth Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Cancun, Mexico, should make a dent in the degree of ignorance displayed by some commentators here... (Boyne)

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Confronting the trade issue
Human cargo! Modern day slavery, or what?
Reconstructing black masculinity