Confession of a corrupt cop
"The kind of money that was out there made it easy for me to influence even the most upstanding individual. However, I identified those that were morally weak and always complaining of money problems.
Christmas is just around the corner
By the time she was five years plus, my eldest daughter, Michelle, had accompanied her mother and me to two of the annual Times Store Santa Claus Christmas Parades in downtown, Kingston. She had sat on Santa's knee and received a personal...
Low mortgage - Scotiabank offers 11% loans to public sector workers
The Scotia Jamaica Building Society (SJBS), a subsidiary of the $200 billion Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Limited (BNS) is to offer public sector employees low interest mortgages in 2007 priced well below current rates in the marketplace.
Powell tops them again
NEW YORK (Reuters): Jamaican world record holder Asafa Powell and American sprinter Sanya Richards were named Track & Field News magazine's athletes of the year on Friday.
Reaffirming the Christmas message
After the bustle and frenzy of recent weeks, with social gatherings and parties and preparing for the grand celebrations, Jamaicans will, by and large, sit down tomorrow to reflective dinners, shared with friends and family.
LETTER OF THE DAY - Reminiscing on Christmas Sunday shopping
The Editor, Sir: "The beginning is the half of all things," as the Greek proverb goes, so I'll start by using a similar convention to that used by Abraham Lincoln in his famous Gettysburg Address (four scores and seven years ago, etc.):
Songs for the season ... For profit or presence
Christmas comes once a year, and while some artistes cannot be bothered with recording Yuletide songs, claiming it is unprofitable to do so, others say they record such songs, simply for the 'feel'.
A feast of art & craft
The showers of rain were ignored by the hundreds of Jamaicans continually filtering through the gates of the Forestry Department, last weekend. They were drawn to the annual Arts and Craft Fair - a creative clay feast - by the Potter's...
Feast on good things this Christmas
If you believe that the terms 'feast' and 'proper dieting' cannot be used in the same sentence and that, inevitably, you will end Christmas Day stuffed as a duck with digestive problems, you are wrong.
Commitments at Christmas
It's the time of the year for fun, frolic and friendship. If we could add some food for thought to that trio, then perhaps we can retain something from this season which should be high on not just cheers, but commitments.
The odd man out
WESTERN BUREAU: Unconventional and self-described as "the odd man out", ceramist Jag Mehta has artistically infused his non-functional contemporary concepts at his exhibition at the Mutual Gallery and Art Centre in Kingston.
