Strachan blasts Finance Ministry
A frustrated Auditor General Adrian Strachan has lashed the Dr. Omar Davies-led Ministry of Finance and Planning for the role it has played in facilitating and perpetuating the perennial breaching of government guidelines. A stern Strachan said...

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INSPORTS foul play? - Auditor General's Report highlight financial breaches
Man barred from having a girlfriend
Remember Dad this Sunday
Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) gain is Northern Ireland's loss
Portmore resident on gun charge
UK diaspora lobby group to be formed
Pathologists dead beat - One doctor performs up to 11 autopsies per day!
'Don's' brother killed in shoot-out
Costa Rica imposes visa on Jamaicans

Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) hosts open day on greenhouse production
The initiators of the Domestic Food Crop Production of Marketing Projects, presented an open day on greenhouse production at High Pride Enterprise in Highgate, St. Mary yesterday. The function marked a significant progressive move for farmers....

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Volunteerism still alive
New school spaces promised
Nat'l Works Agency to tackle flooding on Montego Bay main road
Tourism bodies condemn assault, robbery of visitors
Possibility Programme reaches out to street boys
Atkins Shelter won't turn homeless away
'We are often stereotyped as thieves, rowdy, ignorant and desperate'
Exploring the beauty Canada has to offer

Broilers hangs on to fish division - Predicts turnaround in loss-maker
Jamaica Broilers Group expects a turnaround this year from its unprofitable fish segment, which has operated at a loss for most of the division's 25 years in business. "We anticipate to be in profit situation with agriculture - it's going to be a relatively small level of profit...

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Big-spending refinery nets small profit - $1.13b more for Petrojam plant upgrade
Impaired UK investment erodes Radio Jamaica's profit
Jamaica Producers Group (JP) to invest $590m in operations
Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) director critical of 'onerous' SME lending policy
Regional indebtedness and emerging market risk
Antigua hauls US$3min World Cup revenue - Spent US$1.5m to host matches
Delta adds NewYork-Montego Bay flights to schedule
Finance company launches share offering
Sampling errors and the fantasy of polling
Alcan expected to mount counterbid for Alcoa - Says considering 'all options'
Government of Jamaica puts rein on spending in April
Broilers reports $910m ethanol expenditure

West Indies keen to move forward
CHESTER-LE-STREET, England (CMC): THE WEST Indies will be out to prove that their competitiveness at Old Trafford was no false dawn, as they face another severe challenge in testing conditions in the fourth and final Test today atChester-le-Street. There were signs of improvement...

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FROM THE BOUNDARY - Trelawny's money and many home grounds
Hardaway teams with Upliftment Jamaica
Chambers aims for variety as he turns pro
Beckham wants to bow out with crown
Hot Honduras trounce Cuba
Man U start against Reading
Black River fancied
HORSE SENSE - What went wrong (Part v)
Lack of vision hurt Ja football - Barnes
Stewart takes top college title
Asafa aims for fast time in Norway

EDITORIAL - Better late than never
We have had reason, in the past, to criticise the tendency of former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson to set up committees and commissions of enquiry as a method of defusing public anger, only to have his administration shelve the findings and recommendations.

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Discovering Jamaica
Iraq: still on the brink
NOTE-WORTHY: Financial Ombudsman

LETTER OF THE DAY - Pathologists prone to error in poor working conditions
The Editor, Sir: Now that the police have officially closed the Bob Woolmer case and all the blame has been laid squarely at the feet of pathologist Dr. Ere Seshaiah, let us consider some other factors. In all the post-mortems by the press, I have not heard a balanced commentary...

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Prayers, prophets and politicians
A nation of laws, not of opinions
Jamaica and Japanese education

Fashion for food at Caribbean Fashionweek (CFW)
Who would have thought that models would work for food? Yet, this is just what they did in last Saturday's second show in the Pulse Caribbean Fashionweek (CFW) series. The night was dubbed 'Catwalk the World Evening', as this year Pulse partnered with Catwalk the World...

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Performers, audience dare to care at UWI
Super Plus adds 'Overstanding Rastafari' to library's trolley
VIPs only at Temptation Isle
'Hot Fuzz' heavy on laughs
Japanese Pushim records her sixth album in Jamaica
Orville Hall teaches as he dances

Bajan invasion!
Even though it's held in Jamaica, Caribbean Fashionweek (CFW) was taken over by Bajans last Saturday as a delegation from the Land of the Flying Fish hosted a reception as part of the CFW experience. Under the patronage of Deputy Prime Minister of the Eastern Caribbean island...

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Hot like fire!
Colombian art comes calling
Mixing justice with art

ANTIGUA - Bird condemns decision to put out journalists
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): Leader of the Opposition Antigua Labour Party Lester Bird has condemned "in the strongest terms" the government's decision to ask two Caribbean journalists to leave the island this week. Bird, in a statement, said Wednesday's...

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... Immigration boss stands by his action
CARICOM countries on trafficking watch list
'No major fallout yet from alleged terrorist plot'
Chief Justice Sharma suspended again
Survivor: heated argument preceded crash
Man on corruption, theft charges

Abbas dissolves gov't
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP): A beleaguered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared a state of emergency and disbanded the Hamas-led unity government after the Islamic militant group vanquished its Fatah rivals and effectively took control of the...

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Immigration bill revived
Andean leaders preach unity
Quake hits LatAm neighbours