People's National Party delegate nominations trickle in
WITH THE deadline for groups in the People's National Party (PNP) presidential race to nominate their delegates just two days away, nomination forms came in at a trickle on the weekend, according to Maureen Webber, the party's deputy deputy general secret

Anti-crime community initiative to be launched
THE 'SAFE Communities Campaign', an initiative of the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), a network of organisations working together to prevent violence, will be launched today at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston.

Schools in limbo - Hurricane-ravaged buildings yet to be repaired
MORE THAN one year after Hurricane Ivan ripped through the island damaging hundreds of schools, some are yet to be repaired. Alphansus Davis, principal of Spaldings High School in Clarendon, yesterday said sections of his school that were damaged...

More houses coming for civil servants
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson has announced that a number of new housing projects are to be executed this year and that special consideration is to be given to civil servants to own their own homes.

400 days and counting
EVERYONE INVOLVED in preparations for Cricket World Cup 2007 must be keenly aware of how much work remains to be done and use each of the 400 days, left until the opening ceremony on Sunday, March 11, 2007, to achieve as much as possible.

Roads & RESISTANCE - THE TOLL GATE RIOTS OF 1859
JAMAICA'S FIRST toll roads did not arrive with Highway 2000. They appeared over a century and a half earlier, around 1838. The history of tolls themselves stretches back much further, all the way to Greek mythology...