Financial Services Commission (FSC) beefs up security
The Financial Services Commission (FSC) has beefed up its security measures amid its ongoing battle with high-risk investment schemes. FSC Deputy Director George Roper yesterday confirmed that the firm has intensified its security capacity. Mr. Roper was, however, unwilling...

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Strachan demits office
The prophetic word for 2008
Church plans more inclusive approach - 'The Church failed the people of Jamaica in 2007'
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) manifesto promises to get parliamentary preference
Buchanan ends stint as People's National Party (PNP) general secretary
Police destroy 125,000 weapons
Education stakeholders target school violence

New year's messages - Let's make a fresh start, Jamaica
The beginning of a new year brings with it renewed hope and recharged expectations. As individuals, we reflect on how well we did last year and where we did not do so well. We focus our minds on what we must do to make this a better year than last year. For a nation it is no different.

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A year of hope and renewal
TYRONE'S WATCH - HWT traffic lights send mixed signals
It's a cold war this New Year - Part 1
Benefits of muscular strength
Victims of tragedy

US new home sales drop to lowest level in 12 years
The housing market in the United States plunged deeper into despair last month, with sales of new homes plummeting to their lowest level in more than 12 years. The slump worsened even more than most analysts expected fears that the country might be thrust into a recession....

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World Trade Organisation (WTO) gambling award 'absurdly low' - Antigua
Regional media body upset over CARICOM skills certificate
YEA keen on developing entrepreneurial spirit

Premiership uncertainty
CAPTAIN Horace Burrell, who recently yanked the reins of the Jamaica Football Federation from Crenston Boxhill, yesterday counted his words, refusing to delve into the uncertainty now surrounding sponsorship of the Cash Plus Premier League. With the league's title sponsor ...

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Fairclough getting the vibes back at Waterhouse
Take Mucho Gusto today
Bridgmohans star up north
Regional players rise in ICC rankings
FROM THE BOUNDARY - Well played, West Indies (and especially so Marlon Samuels)
Serena gunning to regain number one ranking
Aiken quits scholarship
Wilmot, Beckford glide away with series

EDITORIAL - New year, new possibilities
It is usual at this time of the year for people to lay out their wish list and declare their resolutions for the New Year. Our wish for Jamaica is that it will be a safer, prosperous and more caring country, and that we will all resolve to work towards those ends; all of which, we concede...

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New Year's wish: PM and Portia forgive
Can Arthur make it four in a row?

Lessons from Rosie's story
The Editor, Sir: The Flair piece about Rosie was beautiful.I find that people don't understand that when a person gets the HIV virus they have to go through all she described. Hence, they don't understand and act insensitively. I pray that men read this and understand...

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A 'cheap shot'

Superb 'Moment' with Beres
THERE WERE handclaps as a countdown from 10 seconds started on the large screens above the stage on Sunday night at the National Indoor Sports Centre (NISC) and a huge cheer as it was complete for Beres Hammond's 'A Moment In Time' to begin....

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Brandy off the hook in fatal car accident case
Garner honoured by hometown newspaper

Kwanzaa: Another way to celebrate the season
Some were dressed in African garb, some in regular clothes, but they all came to Ashanti Restaurant in Hope Gardens on Saturday to celebrate Kwanzaa, the 41-year-old non-religious African-American holiday. They shared stories, music and food in a family setting that focused...

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Corporate gifts: Useful and thoughtful

100 killed in Kenyan election violence
NAIROBI (Reuters):Kenyan police battled protesters in blazing slums yesterday after disputed elections returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and triggered turmoil thought to have killed more than 100 people. Riots convulsed pockets of the nation...

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Officials make poll day decision today in Pakistan
Nomination papers in for January 15 voting