Record settlement - Ezroy Millwood gets billions for breach of contract
THE GOVERNMENT is expected to pay a record $4 billion in damages to the Ezroy Millwood-led National Transport Co-operative Society (NTCS) for breaching a bus franchise agreement.

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Anti-extortion plan
GLEANER/DON ANDERSON POLL - Public wants statues to stay
Phillips seeks help overseas - 'Guns and drug flow needs to be stemmed'
...While more weapons are smuggled
Montego Bay expo Oct 17-20
Traffic cops crack down on fake IDs

CXC results: total disaster
THE Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) results for 2003 continue to be disastrous and provide statistical evidence that the nation's education apparatus is in deep trouble, with frightening consequences for the future of Jamaica.

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GLEANER/DON ANDERSON POLL - Addressing the inequities in the education system - Striking a balance
New NIS rate now in effect
Senior citizen freed of manslaughter charge
JPSCo cuts 300 illegal connections
Highway dangers concern Nat'l Road Safety Council

Tanya Ho-Shue set to boost DB&G Merchant
THE PROTRACTED acquisition of Issa Trust and Merchant Bank (ITMB) by Derhring Bunting & Golding (DB&G) leads to one question - who would head the merged entity? ...

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Joslin looks to dispose of US$26m in local real estate
New gaming colossus emerging
The cess : How effective was it, and does it work?
Neysha Soodeen puts Maco on the world stage
Churches launches innovative credit line
'Bully diplomacy'

IAAF blocks Bolt's record
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, CMC: JAMAICAN USAIN Bolt's sizzling run at this year's Junior Pan American track and field championship in Barbados is not being recognised as a world junior record because the track was not officially certified.

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It's now president Teddy Griffith
Finding the winning edge - Part II
More JRTA proposals
Latonia to make winning debut
Rio launches Pan Am Sports Congress, Expo
Wray & Nephew on the ball
Strong Jamaica face Leewards

Tightening the purse strings
WE MUST applaud the Minister of Finance for moving to control the wage bill in the public sector. Perhaps as bad as sucking salt through a wooden spoon, is the tart pulp of the tamarind fruit which can force a Finance Minister to purse his lips with a...

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The God, the Black and the Scotland Yardies
Sick soil syndrome
Oh , the noise!

Uneven playing field
THE EDITOR, Sir: I WOULD like to note my support for the article written by Dr. Lloyd Prince about the recently-conducted World Trade Organisation (WTO) conference and its implications for Jamaica and other developing states.

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Who is crazy?
Turning a blind eye
Great job, Mr Hendrickson
A full-time bowling clinic
Improving the Force
Helping farmers
Ferry for the Forum
Crime control
No respect for life
May the best man win
Green light for Dolphin Cove

Album call rescues Reggae Grammy
THE REGGAE Grammy died last night. Cause of death - negligence. That could have been the headline if the record companies that handle reggae did not pull up their socks.

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'One Love' for Oslo Film Festival
The Venetian does a great Italian job
From cancer to Christ
'The Fighting Temptations': A Cuba Gooding revival?