Farm work rush
SCORES OF persons from across the island showed up at the Ministry of Labour's Overseas Employment Centre in Kingston yesterday, hoping to be selected to participate in the Canadian Farm Work Programme.

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Fifty persons detained in inner-city crackdown
Mayor McKenzie blasts JPSCo for poor street lighting
Haitians to know fate next week - Seven have so far been granted asylum
Caribbean nations support declaration against human cloning
All set for SA/Caribbean diaspora conference
House passes Fingerprint Act

Nicholson comes under fire over CCJ legislation - Squabbling continues between Government, Opposition
JUSTICE MINISTER Senator A.J. Nicholson came under fire from Opposition parliamentarians yesterday when he refused to halt the proceedings of the joint select committee on the new Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) legislation.

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CCJ, CSME fears - Issues create confusion among Carib population
Ja not ready for CSME ­ Baugh
Guyana fights back after the flood
Public places, dangerous spaces
Two men freed of murder charge

First Global officially opens Mandeville branch
FIRST GLOBAL Financial Service (FGFS) will launch its Mandeville office at Shop 28a, Midway Mall, Mandeville today.

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... Businessman gets decision over state

Allan Rae remembered for serving cricket
ALLAN RAE, the former Jamaica and West Indies cricketer, former president of the Jamaica Cricket Board of Control and former president of the West Indies Cricket Board of Control ...

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JFF HITS BACK ... Challenges Burrell for 'constantly undermining organisation'
Smith leads Ja charge at NCAA
Facey on the double
J'cans grab third places at Cross Country Champs

A wind of change through the Mid East?
SOME NEO-CONSERVATIVES in the Bush administration dreamed that they could light a fire of democracy in Iraq that would then blow through the Middle East. Of course, that's not the reason they said they were going into Iraq. - John Rapley

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Women and children ­ and men
There is no democracy
Another Portmore intervention

LETTER OF THE DAY - Portmore dialogue should continue
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE MARCH 2 meeting on the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 was an emotionally charged one that in my opinion raised more questions than answers.

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Verbal and physical abuse in school
Standardise the dating format
No more than $30 for toll
Poor taste, Mr Phillips

Culture or lack of responsibility? UTech students debate dancehall
THOUGH IT was created in the 1990s, the film The Darker Side of Black, proved extremely relevant to the current situation of dancehall, and Jamaican society.

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Mutabaruka launches 'double-barrelled' poetry
Yasusafari generating funds for charity

HOT TAMALES
THE STORY of the 'discovery' of Cuba runs much the same as that of several islands in the Caribbean that Columbus touched.

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A bite of Cuba at El Compay Gallo
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