CAMPUS BEAT: UCC readying Jamaicans for regional market
AT THREE years old, the University College of the Caribbean (UCC) is one of Jamaica's youngest tertiary institutions. For its new term, the school is looking to prepare its students for the CARICOM Single Market (CSM) which was launched on January 1.

Cement crisis eased
The cement-starved construction sector is now experiencing relief following the importation of more than 40,000 tonnes of cement by two private sector entities last week.

35 entries for the Jamaica Broilers Fair Play Awards
A record 35 entries have been received from 24 journalists for this year's Jamaica Broilers Group Fair Play Awards; up from a total of 22 sets of entries that were received last year. The winners will be announced this morning...

Feisty veteran on comeback trail
IN THE cut-and-thrust politics of the 1970s, Joan Gordon-Webley often went for the jugular. Two weeks ago, during a campaign speech in South East St. Andrew, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate showed she had lost none of her bite.

ICON: Peter Tosh: The Stepping Razor
LAST week marked the 20th anniversary of Peter Tosh's death. Unlike the events that mark the birth and death of Bob Marley, his former colleague in The Wailers, there was little fanfare for one of pop music's true revolutionaries.

Jamaica on US drug blacklist
WASHINGTON (AP): Jamaica was again named on a United States blacklist of drug-transit or drug-producing countries in a White House document released yesterday. The list remained unchanged from a year ago, with 20 nations cited...