More showers - MET OFFICE URGES EVACUATION
THE METEOROLOGICAL Service has forecast another wet weekend for the island as weather systems bringing more rainfall continued to close in yesterday. Streets were transformed into canals in sections of Trelawny, Hanover, and St. Elizabeth yesterday...

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Balanced budget target now tougher
Gov't to increase subsidy on drugs
WTO spikes EU banana tariff - Ruling sends Europeans back to drawing board
Trelawny champion blows away rivals
Rains hamper blood drive
$1 billion to repair roadways
Cut consumption - PM
Cayman visa fees announced

ACCESS DENIED! Access to what?
IT IS becoming difficult. Increasingly difficult. Like pulling teeth. Pardon us for believing that because we made the requests under the Access to Information Act, that it would be a simple matter....

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ACCESS DENIED! Given the runaround - Still no answers
ACCESS DENIED - What are they hiding?
NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY WEEK - Acting Assistant Superintendent Samuel Wright Recalls horrors of Maxfield Avenue blaze
PAC chides Electoral Office for wasting money
LaTouche says police tardy in crime fight
Ramcharan, Williams appeal extradition orders
PM could miss youth awards again

Jamaican investors need to diversify - Chang
AS CHAIRMAN of CI Financial, the third largest investment fund company in Canada, Raymond Chang is one of Jamaica's most successful sons in the diaspora. CI Financial has total assets under management of approximately $70 billion...

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Digicel has big plans for Haiti - Delves
Carib businesses need better disaster plan
Make strategic planning work for you
NCB takes Blue Cross
Air J aims for profitability - Melhado
Berger could see improved profits later this year

WI let Bulls off tether
BRISBANE, Australia (CMC): HANDICAPPED YET again by inconsistent bowling and unimaginative leadership, the West Indies compounded their woes with a puzzling selection policy, and a sub-standard effort in the field...

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Hinds breaks 'pinky'
'I'm feeling stronger' - Powell credits fitness trainer
FROM THE BOUNDARY - Windies cricket needs management
Controversy hits schoolboy football leagues
Tivoli, JC in Walker Cup quarter-finals
No conspiracy - St. Jago
Roll with Ital Queen
Dibbs booted out of office

Taking hard decisions on sugar
WE UNDERSTAND that the All-Island Cane Farmers Association will seek to protect the interests of its members and the sugar industry. But its president, Alan Rickards, is off the mark with his criticisms of aspects of the Government's plan ...

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Calling on the authorities
Mike's magic for Air J

LETTER OF THE DAY - A 'Rosa Parks' story - New York version
THE EDITOR, Sir: I THOUGHT it might be interesting to your readers to hear what I call my 'Rosa Parks Story'. In 1965, British Airways (then called B.O.A.C.) hired five Jamaican girls to be stewardesses. I was one of the five selected...

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CARIMENSA excellent intiative
Even-handed commentary
Alternative energy sources
In search of my family

Rayon Baugh continues 'The Journey'
POWERFUL IN voice but humble in demeanour, Rayon Baugh was born in Gordonwood, St. Catherine. He grew up in a stable Christian home and, though not forced, he was encouraged to attend church.

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'Into The Blue' absolutely inane
Weak 'Marley Inspiration'
Enthralling poetry from Heather Royes

Latinos let Loose!
LAST SATURDAY evening the pool side of the Colombian Ambassador's Jacks Hill residence came alive with cheerful conversation and dance. The occasion was the Latin American Women's Club's Wine and Cheese Party...

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Expressions of love
Ja places fourth in 'Miss India Global' contest
Retirement is in the air
Global governance
CAUGHT ON CAMERA! - Fun and frolic with Andrews Triple Action
New president for Kiwanis Club of Constant Spring

Another bomb blast rocks capital
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC: A BOMB blast rocked upper Port of Spain shortly before noon yesterday forcing police and army officers to block off the area as panic-stricken pedestrians scampered to safety.

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Sugar era ends... tourism now priority

Thousands of firms paid Saddam bribes, kickbacks - report
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters): MORE THAN 2,200 companies, including major concerns like DaimlerChrysler, Siemens and Volvo, made illicit payments totalling $1.8 billion to Saddam Hussein's government during the U.N. oil-for food programme, a report said...

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Sharon says UN should expel Iran
Bush's Supreme Court nominee Miers withdraws
UN payouts for Gulf War claims top US$20 billion

'HAIR' IS THE HAT

DARAIN HOUSEN HAS not taken off his hat for the last 20 years. He bathes, he sleeps and does everything possible in it. It is a perfect fit.