Cop killed in crash
A 42-YEAR-OLD police corporal was killed in a three-vehicle collision along Highway 2000 in St. Catherine, yesterday. Three other persons, including two policemen, were injured in the crash which took place between the Portmore and Spanish Town exit...

J'cans ready for the regional job market
The target date for the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market (CSM) is January 1, 2006. Under the CSM, specified occupational and professional groups will be allowed to work in other CARICOM territories without work permits.

Sangster International eastern concourse opens
WESTERN BUREAU: THE SPANKING new $6.7 billion eastern concourse of the Sangster International Airport (SIA) was officially opened on Friday.

More jobs for teachers?
RUEL REID, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) told The Sunday Gleaner that his organisation did not anticipate an influx of teachers migrating to other Caribbean countries when the CSM takes effect. According to Mr. Reid, teachers...

Potential and preparation
ACCORDING TO Robert Gregory, executive director of the HEART Trust/NTA, the CSM presents a great potential for the region and Jamaica is geared up to take full advantage of the benefits of the new market. "We are more prepared in terms of...

UWI graduates eagerly await CSM
FOR MANY years, students from the Eastern Caribbean have settled in Jamaica once they graduated from the University of the West Indies' Mona campus. With the CARICOM Single Market finally getting off the ground in January, their Jamaican...

Tourism and the CSM
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE THE CARICOM Single Market (CSM) seem poised to catch many Jamaican workers off guard, Montego Bay-based scuba diving instructor Valentine Reid is ready.

Wolfe sums up
CHIEF JUSTICE Lensley Wolfe on Friday pointed to gaps in the prosecution's case, as he continued his summary of evidence in the Kraal murder case in the Supreme Court.

CARICOM Single Market: barriers on the brink - $billion market beckons
THE AGRICULTURAL sector has been weakening for nearly a decade, recording large declines in its production index since 1996 and declines in the production of selected traditional imports.