Christie demands sanctions - Contractor General calls for tough penalties for contracts breaches
In a caustic and comprehensive review of the public sector's contract awards process for the year 2005, a dissatisfied Contractor General Greg Christie called for punitive sanctions to be taken against individuals who breach the Government's procurement..

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Broilers launches $1b ethanol plant
Boycotters to up tempo
Police restive as wage talks falter
Home, sweet home for Rocky Point residents
New crime task force
Paulwell censure bid fails
Portland Parish Council in turmoil - White moves to oust new mayor

Child rights lobbyists laud new sex crime laws
Convenor of Hear the Children's Cry, Betty-Ann Blaine, and Children's Advocate, Mary Clarke, have welcomed the move by the Government to retable two pieces of legislation that will see persons committing sexual crimes against women and children...

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Safe Schools probes teen gangs
Builders decry cement increase
Government to audit Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS)
San José funds tied to Whitehouse payments
Baha'i celebrate
Deacon stays put

Shake-up at GraceKennedy
GraceKennedy has moved John Mahfood from his role as chief operating officer (COO) for its retail and trading division and has told the executive to concentrate on the troubled HiLo supermarket chain. Yesterday GraceKennedy told the Jamaica Stock...

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Patterson starts new consultancy
Caribbean carriers to split duties
WTO breakdown not fatal - Bernal
EU talks start in Kingston
Seprod to expand dairy farm on Belvedere land - Looks to mango exports
Stewart's sees good sales from BMW line
Politics, loyalty and competence
Jamaica Broilers share rise on ethanol plan

Tough times for Jamaicans
JAMAICA WERE having trouble getting the better of their opponents at the XX Central American and Caribbean Games being held in Cartagena, Colombia, last night. In the 100-metre hurdles, Toni-Ann Doyley got into the final after finishing second...

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WILLIAM CHIN-SEE - Keeping racing on track at Caymanas
Downswell's stint to end next week
Hyatt replaces Brown in Jamaica's Twenty/20 squad
Simpson and Powell shine in Stockholm
Juvenile cool Blazers heat
Special traffic system for Cricket World Cup 2007

Dr Lawrence's resignation and public accountability
Dr. Vin Lawrence has finally done the right thing, which he should have quite a while ago, in stepping down as chairman of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) - and his directorship of other government agencies - over the Sandals Whitehouse...

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Changing the face of Grants Pen
Power problems
If it feels good, do it!

LETTER OF THE DAY - Lucrative market for child pornography
THE EDITOR, Sir: Permit me to provide some factual answers to questions raised by Mrs. McCalla Sobers in her most recent article. She asked if there was a commercial aspect to our child pornography, the extent of the involvement of schoolchildren...

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History of Fort Augusta
Employing foreigners
Poor show in the valley
Give Jamaica a chance

'Clergy in Comedy' serves up holy jokes
Members of the clergy loosened their collars for an evening of laughter and limerick on Saturday as Clergy in Comedy played at the Karram Speid Auditorium, Constant Spring Road, Kingston.

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Puerto Rican crowned Miss Universe, collapses
'Little Man' - big things in small packages

Sweetly acid pomegranate
Breaking open the tough, leathery skin of the pomegranate brings the expectant eater face to face with numerous small, tangy, (sometimes sweetly acid when fully ripe), juicy sacs, deep pink or rich red in colour.

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A slow flow of urine
Am I pregnant? - How do you know if you are pregnant?
Can older women use the cervical cancer vaccine? (response to reader's query)
Gender and mental health

GUYANA: US revokes top cop's visa
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): President Bharrat Jagdeo has called on the United States Embassy here to justify revoking the visa of acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene. The U.S. embassy cancelled Greene's visitor's visa last Friday...

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TRINIDAD: A-G wants probe on Court of Appeal jurist

MIDEAST: Israeli forces close in on key Hezbollah stronghold
JERUSALEM (Reuters): Israeli forces battled to take over a second Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon yesterday and an Israeli commander estimated at least 20 guerrillas had been killed in the fighting.

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Olmert vows to crush Hezbollah