Lead Stories
De Oliveira boots five - Overseas-based players dumped for indiscipline
FIVE overseas-based members of Jamaica's national football programme were unceremoniously booted from the team just hours before the country was due to play a friendly match against Barbados at the...

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JLP jolted again - After Samuda firing...
Blythe warns squatters
'Shots fired into cell block'
Background to the firing of Samuda

News
Divine rites - Disunity a turn-off to outsiders
SIN AND whispers of scandals, though an inescapable part of the Christian church, is not the biggest problem faced by the institution, says Rev. Oliver Daley of the United Church of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Disunity within and between churches is.

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HOLY SMOKE! Legalise the weed, say church officials
We are not a cult, says Jehovah's Witnesses
Chamber raps Council over market closure
Walsh tapped for Net fund-raiser

Business
Record year for AAT membership
FIGURES ISSUED on May 9 show that 1999 was another record year of growth for the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), with membership and student figures combined exceeding the 100,000 mark. A release from the AAT said that highlights of 1999...

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Dominica wants to join EU
EU Commission seeks banana solution by October

Sport
Ottey vows best to come

SPRINT queen Merlene Ottey has promised a scintillating return to the track. The former world 200m champion, who was cleared of any doping offence by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) on Monday, cannot wait to match strides with her...

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Dr. Wright happy for Merlene
Boyz thrash Bajans 5-0
WI ready to roll over Zimbabwe

Commentary
Mexico's political earthquake
SOMETHING LIKE a major earthquake has shaken Mexican politics. The 71-year grip of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) on the presidency has been decisively broken by the National Action Party (PAN) and its candidate Vicente Fox. Victory at the...

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The Human Genome Project
Whither Hellshire Hills?
Training for the police
Triumph before the storm (Part 1) - Through the 20th century with The Gleaner

Letters
Crime is the issue
THE EDITOR, Madam: AFTER READING the short-sighted comments/solutions to invigorate tourism in Jamaica from Senator Brian Wallace, I felt compelled to respond.

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RGD responds to customer complaint

Entertainment
International Reggae Day presses ahead
THE INAUGURAL International Reggae Day suffered a financial setback, but organiser, Andrea Davis, says that will not daunt her plans for making the event an annual affair. "I can't even begin to talk figures, but we lost money.

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Fourth of July celebration at Grand Lido Braco
Silvertones' winning formula at work

Cornwall Edition
No jobs out West
WESTERN BUREAU: FACED WITH a competitive job market and a sagging economy, students leaving high schools will be hard pressed to find meaningful employment for themselves.

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New taxi centre opens in MoBay
MoBay targeted for new cruise ship calls

What's Cooking
Shrimp à la king for the happy couple

HOW MANY people know that the white wedding dress is a tradition that began as recently as Victorian times? In fact, most of today's traditional wedding customs originate from that era. With one notable exception - the ring.

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Food hygiene and safety

Star Page
Lady G's body

Yes massa wen neyga a fly dem mout den betta watch out who a hear for Lady G seh wat neyga people might a tink is not so eh go. She seh har pickney is one-yearold and a changes har body a go through. Yes changes so uno betta tap believe weh uno hear....

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Reggae ... top music in Panama