Messy affair - Health Fund poured cash into JUTC security
The multibillion-dollar National Health Fund (NHF), which provides financial support to the national health-care system, was being inappropriately tapped to foot private security bills. Security guards were hired for its former chief executive officer, Rae Barrett....

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Christie to probe NHF contracts
Americans queuing up to vote in Jamaica
Informal settlements set back community policing
Rape doubled in September
Teachers sign salary deal
JPS bills to drop 10%
Wayne Chen to head UDC
Financial fallout for fertiliser firm in Jamaica

RADA groups empower women
Give them a jackfruit and they'll find a hundred ways to cook it, bake it, stew it, and squeeze it into drinks.In fact, hand them any kind of local fruit or vegetable and the women of the Home Economics Division of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority ...

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Jamaican state of mind: Obama vs McCain
Steffens' response to Chen
A BOY'S BEST FRIEND
The Gleaner Honour Awards - Molly Rhone Queen of netball
It was an experience

Preparatory work begins for multibillion-dollar oil refinery
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC): Preparatory work has begun for the construction of a multibillion-dollar oil refinery here by the global energy company, Hess Corporation, Communications and Works Minister Guy Joseph has announced."Quite a substantial amount...

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Focus on human resources, urges SAJ vice-president
Warnings of fallout coming from Mottley
Country worse off says Barbados opposition

Jamaica College (JC), Calabar showdown
Jamaica College (JC) will make yet another attempt to leap clear of the Calabar hurdle en route to their first Walker Cup title when the teams meet in the competition's semi-final at the Constant Spring Field at 3 p.m. today. In the early encounter of a double-header...

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Duckie resigns from Portmore
Joseph says Superstars need improvements
WICB confirms ODIs against Pakistan
Majesty, Knights in battle of wills
Wehby moves to settle horse racing impasse
Hayles commends Harbour View for winning 'rough game'
Pitterson, Bidwell-Wallen steer Bullets into final
'A tremendous feeling' - Champs admit greater joy for winning tough event
Safin contemplates future after Paris Masters loss

EDITORIAL - Placing debt negotiation on the agenda
Earlier in the decade, with the Government's deficit running at nearly eight per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), driven substantially by the requirement to service a national debt of about 150 per cent of GDP, people thrashed around for solutions...

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LETTER OF THE DAY - Corporate Jamaica and youth employment
The Editor, Sir: In all the euphoria and public celebrations of our athletes' accomplishments in the Beijing Olympics, I could not help but marvel at the support of corporate Jamaica for the country's youth. Many organisations were ready ...

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Let the salvaging job proceed
Seaga right re US election & Jamaica
Port strike sets dangerous precedent
Seeking justice in a case of rape
America near the final turn
Time for change re gays in Jamaica
JTA has failed the teachers
Query re youth programme
Requiem for Judaeo-Christian values

Voting to a reggae beat
WITH ONE week to go before the historic election in the United States, music by Caribbean artistes is helping to push the vote for Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate. Obama, an Hawaii-born, African-American senator from Illinois, is running against Republican Senator ....

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Something extra

Obama should not celebrate too early
UNITED STATES Senator Barack Obama is being advised to avoid any inclination to pull off a Usain Bolt stunt by celebrating before the race is over."He needs to continue doing what he is doing and run through the tape; no easing up in any way," Dr Paul Robertson, three-time campaign...

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Jamaicans abroad back Obama's foreign policy