PRISON HEALTH SCARE - Rats run free at Fort Augusta, leptospirosis outbreak looms
Huge rats have overrun the Fort Augusta Adult Correctional Centre for women, prompting the St. Catherine Health Department to call for its abandonment, fearing an outbreak of leptospirosis.

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Government low-income housing project cost balloons
Jamaican youth appeals for better prevention methods
Student body calls for improved security measures
Crush of new students stresses educators
Health workers more willing to provide HIV/AIDS care
Garvey - the most important Jamaican
Remittances the lifeblood for many

Police kill four in Clarendon
The Clarendon police yesterday shot and killed four alleged gunmen and recovered three firearms during an early-morning operation in Alexandria, Chapelton.

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EX-IM bank braces for CSM, focuses on tourism-based small businesses
Back-to-school preparations: the tale of two families
Who's Who award for Ex-Im Bank head
Reggae icon, Joseph Hill, dies
Teachers' book allowance still in limbo

900 housing units, lots for Rose Hall
Local developer, Gore Development Limited, plans to break ground on a multimillion-dollar housing development in Rose Hall, St. James, next month, to add more than 900 houses and serviced lots to the market over three years.

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No takers for net billing licences - renewable energy providers say price a turn-off
Barita tightens internal controls after $1.6m fraud
Moody's warns Jamaica's finances weak
Havana Club rum subject of lawsuit

Jamaica go treasure hunting
Jamaica enter today's final day of the 11th IAAF World Junior Track and Field Championships at the Chaoyang Sport Centre in the Chinese capital with hopes of winning four more medals.

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Baugh blasts Melbourne into semis
Barbados, Guyana seek place in final
Recharged Pakistan try to salvage a win
WI women U-19 tour ends on high note
Sport briefs
MIND YOUR BUSINESS
Performers of the week - Powell, Spencer on top of the world
Harding rejoins Henry with three-timer
Junior Reggae Boyz cruise into quarters
Woods and Donald set up classic showdown

EDITORIAL - Careful, Madam PM
We suppose that we will be numbered among those to be accused by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller of being uncaring and opposed to any initiative in benefit of the poor. Nonetheless, we are willing to risk the wrath of the Prime Minister to advise...

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We've lost our way
Councils, Central Government in same mess
Tolled out, sold out
Garvey: The mindset and the economy

Letter of the day - Reid right to cry shame on corporal punishment
The Editor, Sir: The Jamaica Teachers' Association's outgoing president, Ruel Reid, is right in saying that corporal punishment of children is an outdated approach to raising and educating children.

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Religion of war
Thanks for the good vibes, PM
Excusing Israel
No room for defensiveness
Improve RGD service
No bed of roses

TOUGH LOVE for artistes
Entertainers don't have it easy. In between dodging the stalkers and partners looking for a quick buck, it's often hard to sift through the proverbial haystack to find true love.

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Finding Miss Lou's fitting final 'tenky'
Touring not an easy road
Two sometimes better than one
Billboard a moving target

Short story - Turn Around
The last time I saw my wife was at the Norman Manley Airport. I had kissed her again as I let her out of the car and she walked to the entrance with her one travel bag, showed her ticket to the officer and joined the Air Jamaica economy line.

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When Miss Lou
Book review - A retrospective
Short Story - Love's Last Messenger

Welcome home - William Chong returns to Jamaica
Fifty-eight years after having migrated to England from Jamaica, 78-year-old William Chong returned home for the first time to celebrate Independence here.

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Learning to breather again
Diets of the Bible (Part II)
Paul Norman's flair for fashion
A home for friends

Portia's race with time
The euphoria over the leadership of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is dissipating and political pundits are saying she had better call the elections sooner rather than later for she faces a reenergised, fighting-fit JLP. (Boyne)

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Borrowing for growth
Guyana's elections: issues of ethnicity and territoriality
US demonstrates commitment to Doha

... And the groom sang for his bride
The historic University Chapel was the venue for yet another high profile wedding last Sunday. This time, it was for attorney-at-law Pearnel Charles II and Eleasia Lewars, daughter of Monica and Vincent Brewster.

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Wines heat up Blue Beat
Leos create lasting maritime memories

Raul Castro warns US against threats
Acting president Raul Castro says Cuba remains open to normalised relations, but warned the U.S. government that it will get nowhere with threats or pressure.

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Lebanon conflict