Call for tourism to replace sugar
WESTERN BUREAU: KINGSLEY THOMAS, chairman of the National Housing Trust, is dismissing the late scurry by sugar interests to head off the European Union's (E.U.) bid to end preferential treatment to African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries...

Venezuelan crude oil deal - Patterson to sign MoU with gov't today
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson will today sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Venezuelan government at Puerto La Cruz in Venezuela to provide crude oil and refined products at favourable credit terms.

'Trelawny becoming unsafe' - Residents fear crime will derail development
WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS AND other stakeholders in Trelawny are concerned that the escalating crime problem will railroad the impending multibillion-dollar developments that are earmarked to elevate the economic viability of the parish.

Violence in Ja is preventable
THE COST of violence in terms of lives lost, injuries, health care cost, law enforcement, human pain and suffering is enormous. The majority of perpetrators are young males, many of whom are marginalised, disenfranchised and locked out of the opportunity

Delinquent patients eating away at hospital budget
THE PATIENT spending the most days in the intensive care unit (ICU) at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) in 2003 was a case of domestic violence. The patient was so badly injured that she stayed 87 days in ICU...

UK Privy Council clears Justice Cooke
JAMAICAN JUDGE Howard Cooke who at times has been criticised by the local courts and some attorneys-at-law of unduly intervening in cases in which he presides, has been vindicated by the United Kingdom Privy Council.

Man shot dead on way to visit mom
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: A PALL of gloom hung over the Jones Avenue area of Spanish Town yesterday following the killing of a 21-year-old man by a gunman. The dead man has since been identified as Ricardo Davis...