POSH HOMES FOR PENNIES - Public officials pay cheap rentals for state houses in upscale areas
While rental for privately owned housing is going through the roof, government-owned houses in up-market neighbourhoods are being rented below market rates to dozens of public officials, including several Members of Parliament of the governing People's National Party.

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Battle for classes - JLP grabs at working-class voters, PNP keeps middle-income electors
Performance-based pay to lift education quality - JEF
Living is easy with Jamaican Government as landlord
... JLP protests cheap housing for some officials
Political Ad Watch - PNP nah change course
Whose side is Seaga on?
Losing paradise - Negril's beaches eroding
A gesture for peace

Brazil's President to visit Jamaica
President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, arrives in the island next week Wednesday for a two-day working visit.

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Cheap-housing occupants react
Old-timers reflect on past elections
NDM candidate pins hopes on ganja legalisation
St Ann welcomes Cash Plus development
45 MILESTONES (1962-2007): 45 years of nationhood

$200m Denbigh hotel - JAS to develop property under $1b plan
The Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) is to build its own hotel on the same property that hosts the annual Denbigh show, and is investing $200 million in the venture. The project breaks ground Monday at the site in a formal ceremony with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on the final day of the three-day Denbigh show.

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Shareholders still uninformed on bids for RBTT
Big spending cut contains deficit in June quarter
That 'bad taste of Finsac' - Squaring all the facts
Building a viable pension sector for Jamaica
The complexities of crime and foreign trade

Tough task for Jamaica
Leaders Guyana will hope to move one step closer to retaining their TCL West Indies Under-19 Challenge title when they battle Jamaica in the fourth round of the tournament at the Edgar Gilbert Park in Molineaux starting today.

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Come on, Mr Gordon, let's get it right
Kensington off the mark in all-island one-day
Sunday Chat - Kelly still thinking positively
Big win for Circle Drome
T&T seeking redemption
Meadhaven, Maverley clash in women's KO feature
Akhtar, Asif among 26 drug-free Pakistanis
Pakistan trio say no to new series
Antigua's golden boy Christian returns home to big hero's welcome

EDITORIAL - The missing manifesto
The real general election campaign has only just begun and the tendency for it to degenerate into a carnival of motorcades, personal abuse and worse is already far advanced. It is the duty of both political parties to scotch this tendency immediately. But they must go further. They must ensure that the campaign focuses on the real issues facing the Jamaican people so that an informed choice can be made come August 27.

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Mastering English
Aboard the Portia train
Numbering our leaders
On police shooting, education and irresponsible politicking

LETTER OF THE DAY - Prime Minister, control your troops
The Editor, Sir: Last year during the investiture of our first female Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, a feeling of euphoria swept over me... Alas, my sense of pride and joy has now turned into bewilderment.

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Good job, HEART Trust
Better future

Gospel artistes seek prime time's pearly gates
Trumpeting the message of the Lord comes with many trials and tribulations. Gospel artistes try their best to spread their message through music, but they are often thwarted by the lack of prime-time airplay they receive on radio compared to their secular counterparts.

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Roots reggae enjoys growth spurt
Echo chambers - Musical all-in-one at Tuff Gong
Harry Potter turns pages in Jamaica

National Visual Arts Competition - Showing off national pride
Although sympathetic to popular culture, as an art historian I have been taught to be critical and discriminating. This is not always a good thing because that education can also turn you into an art snob, dismissive of anything that does not follow the respected canon of fine art.

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Art at the heart of the city
Book review - Heavy with nostalgia, nuances of life in rural Jamaica
Literary arts - After the incident

A family of artists
Artist, Philip 'Ambokele' Henry says that his marriage to Marcia, was a match made in heaven. The pair met at art school and now have been married for 26 years, raising a family of four girls, all of whom display a growing love of art.

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Single in the city - A romantic getaway
A story of spousal abuse
Doctor's advice - What do men prefer in a bride?

The Jamaican electorate grows up
When Jamaica started electing leaders in 1944, most of the populace was probably illiterate, there was only one national newspaper, and there was no radio or television. Those who did not attend political meetings often knew nothing about constituency candidates except their name and party. (Chang)

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Assessing the Jamaica Labour Party manifesto
National independence, global interdependence
Alternative criminal justice and human rights in Jamaica

Blairs in The Bahamas
Ninety-four year old Mortimer Blair did not witness his youngest son Antonio's wedding last Saturday afternoon, neither was he there to hear the tributes bestowed upon him and his late wife Geneva.

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We could have danced all night!
Wedding 2 remember