IN RUINS - Hurricane Dean claims one life - State of emergency declared - Blackouts for at least 48 hrs
JAMAICANS TODAY awoke to scenes of destruction in the aftermath of Hurricane Dean, whose outer bands ploughed through southern parishes claiming one life and damaging the country's housing stock. The police also reported two deaths but could not yet confirm they were related...

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Election date hangs in balance
More than disaster for some residents
Prisons damaged
St Thomas battered by Hurricane Dean
Looters, gangs use rain for gain
Caribbean Terrace takes another whack
Portland hard hit
Storm shelters stretched - Problems rain down as centres struggle to cope

Burning bridges? - Port Royal residents turn heat on firemen
As Hurricane Dean barrelled south of Jamaica yesterday setting off flooding fears in Port Royal, residents were up in arms as the town did not have a single fireman. While firefighters heeded evacuation warnings in the peninsular town which is particularly prone...

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Big stink in August Town
Storm in a teacup for some
'Blasted mad!' - Fishers marooned on Pedro Cays
Cops injured in crash
Evacuees find refuge at the National Arena in Jamaica
Portmore stays put
Dog is love
Voter registration notices - distributed by postal service

Hurricane Dean delivers big blow to EC banana
CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP): Hurricane Dean has delivered a potentially fatal blow to a once-vibrant banana industry on three Eastern Caribbean islands, authorities said Saturday. In St. Lucia and Martinique, two adjacent islands that caught the brunt of Dean's 100 mph...

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... but tourism industry survives
Petrojam oil sale resumes evening
Hotels on Jamaica's north coast spared

Six Jamaicans in U-19 squad
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (CMC): A 20-man training squad, comprising several players with first-class experience, has been selected to prepare for the Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Malaysia next year. Six Jamaicans have been named in the provisional squad, including Horace Miller....

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Brilliant Miller blasts Jamaica to U-19 title
'We played with a plan'
... WICB puts up team in Antigua
Beijing beckons in Osaka - Who will head into Olympics as world champions?
Fuller scores
Warner vows action against JFF
Manchester City make it three straight -Geovanni goal extends miserable start for United
Sports club 'summer rally' finals on Friday

EDITORIAL: After the storm - the road to relief
In the absence of a sitting Parliament, the two major political parties have fittingly showed national solidarity even before the onslaught of Hurricane Dean. Prime Minister and president of the PNP, Portia Simpson Miller, and JLP Leader Bruce Golding have agreed to cooperate...

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Is Jah Cure cured?
Restoring the faith in voting
Let the figures speak

LETTER OF THE DAY - Facing the literacy problem in schools
The Editor, Sir:While most Jamaicans are caught up in the web of electioneering, educators and parents are busy trying to get our house in order before the next school year which begins in less than 21 days. Each school year brings some age-old problems such as overcrowding...

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What the debates achieved
Accountability is what we need
NOTE-WORTHY: Calming colours

Women invited to get 'WILDE'
After hosting its writers' retreat in Negril,Westmoreland, last year, the U.K.-based Women into Literature, Enterprise and Development (WILDE) International Network is expanding its reach in Jamaica with its second National Creative Writing Competition. ...

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Chuck & Larry is no laughing matter
It was not Rhames' dogs
Jay-Z is richest hip-hop cash king
Britney's loneliness gets out of hand

Styling a star
You see them on television looking glamorous while singing their hearts out to prove that they can be the next "Digicel Rising Star." And for the four years since the competition's inception, women have always been dominant, but none has ever walked away with the coveted title....

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KELLY'S WORLD - Still in the Dark Ages
Dr Kaye Reid Lombardo
Consortium - Is it only a man's right?
MIDAS TOUCH IN MEDICINE
Make a good first impression
Spinning your way to good health
Kimberley Mais - Japan's Jamaican darling ...
The secret to surviving
'It was meant to be'

181 Chinese feared dead in flooded mines
XINTAI, China (AP): Angry relatives protested and demanded answers yesterday as rescue efforts sputtered ahead for 181 miners trapped underground for more than two days after a collapsed dike flooded two coal mines in eastern China. Rescuers finally managed to repair...

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Dean scours Haiti, death toll hits 11
Storms kill 15