Cops in the classroom Police initiate truancy programme
IN A bid to curb truancy and violence in schools, the police will next week implement a new community relations programme that will see members of the force being placed in certain schools to use persuasion...

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Double murder prompts shut-down threat in Sp Town
Structured recruitment for teachers
Officials tour inner-city housing sites
Tools for Development, Ledermode, sign MoU
UWI students in loan quandary
Air J cancels flights

Chevening Scholarships extremely tough this year
THREE LAWYERS, a journalist and a dermatologist are this year's recipients of the British 2004/05 Chevening Scholarships.

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Unusual occurrence in reading finals
'Deportee' study coming
French diplomats leaving

Shell to spend $400m on operational facilities here
THE SHELL Company West Indies Limited, (Shell) will spend over $400 million this year to improve its operational facilities in Jamaica says its country chairman, Mario Vulinovich.

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Government to build exclusive housing for 'Go-Gos'
JEF being rebranded - Hinchcliffe
Closing the manufacturing gap
JN posts $2b in profits
Can Ja learn from the Asian economic experience? (Part I)
Ja to benefit from $B Cricket World Cup income

Powell set for Brussels
IF SHAWN Crawford lives up to his words, Jamaica's fastest man, Asafa Powell, will have to break the world record to win the 100m dash at today's Memorial Van Damme meet, the fifth of this summer's TDK Golden League series in Brussels, Belgium.

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Matching up against Panama
Well done, well said, Minister Simpson Miller
Bank on Valid Reason

Ominous tourism warning
THE JAMAICAN economy is showing some signs of recovery, an important element of which is the role of the tourist industry both in terms of increased tourist arrivals and foreign investments in new hotels.

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A comeback for bananas
A party's right to privacy
Pump pain gets worse

One approach to the crime problem
THE EDITOR, Sir: I CAN'T imagine that I am the only person that thinks that our attitude to crime is what is killing us. We have a problem, but the attitude that flings hands up in the air in desperation is annoying.

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Congrats for a job well done
Preserving our oral history
Time to go, Mr Forbes
Assamba's statement no surprise
Our business persons are heroes
Jesus died for the inner cities too
Three family members

Miss Jamaica World 2004 hits the road
RESIDENTS OF central and western Jamaica will have an opportunity to see the contestants in the Miss Jamaica World Pageant, as the Miss Jamaica World Roadshow stops in Mandeville, Manchester, and Montego Bay, St. James, this weekend.

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Carlene Davis and Stitchie a hit in Canada
Elmareta banks on personality