PAJ, shipping line seal $13 billion deal
THE PORT Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) yesterday sealed a $13 billion deal with Maersk Shipping Line to provide mainly trans-shipment services at the Kingston Container Terminal over five years. The contract was signed by Prime Minister P.J. Patterson...

GLEANER HONOUR AWARD RECIPIENT: PAT RAMSAY - 'Lovely blur of headlong energy'
IT'S NOT easy being Pat Ramsay. She will be the first to tell you she can't paint, write or hold a musical note with anything resembling true talent, but what she does have is a nose for detecting the latent genius in other people.

Waters rising in Wakefield
FLOOD WATERS continue to rise in Wakefield, Trelawny, as the serious flooding situation which developed there nearly two weeks ago has worsened. Three communities in Wakefield have been under water for over a week following flood rains...

New HIV vaccine trial launched
THE HEALTH Ministry yesterday launched a new vaccine trial as part of its efforts to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The trial, which is being conducted at the ministry's epidemiology research training unit...

KRAAL TRIAL: DAY 14 - 11-y-o witness no-show
THE PROSECUTION had to call other witnesses to testify yesterday because 11-year-old Shanice Stoddart failed to appear in the Home Circuit Court for further cross-examination.

Sub-committee to examine damage islandwide - PM
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson told the island's mayors yesterday that a sub-committee of Cabinet will meet next Monday to examine the totality of the damage to the country's infrastructure. -