On right track - Legal expert supports Jamaica's move to reform libel, defamation laws
ONE OF the Caribbean's leading legal academics yesterday hailed the report of the Justice Hugh Small committee as providing the "skeleton of a modern defamation law", but suggested that new legislation should include mechanisms for the "speedy, cheap and effective...
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Chin caught Kern on tape, says DPP
DIRECTOR OF Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has hinted that audio recordings done by former co-accused Rodney Chin suggest that more persons may have been involved in the Cuban light-bulb affair. "It is a pity that we had not known ...
YEP, first loans granted to young entrepreneurs
Movet Murphy, Raniel McGregor and Richard Durrant are the first three young school leavers to be granted loans under the Young Entrepreneurs Programme (YEP) announced by Prime Minister Bruce Golding during this year's Budget Debate. "We are happy to...
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Francis steers St GC past Charlie Smith
Former Ardenne High forward, Jhuvon Francis, scored twice to lead defending champions St Geroge's College to a 3-1 win over Charlie Smith Comprehensive High in their top-of-the-table Group F clash in the urban area ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel Manning Cup schoolboy football competition...
EDITORIAL - Is this the transformation of Mr Golding?
When Prime Minister Bruce Golding sat with editors of this newspaper last month, he made a surprising and, some would claim, hardly politically astute admission.It could be considered "fair comment", Mr Golding conceded, that his administration was slow in responding...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Frustrations of using Highway 2000
The Editor, Sir: There are those of us who saw the May Pen leg of Highway 2000 as an opportunity to live beyond the hustle and bustle of the Kingston Metropolitan Area (KMA) and still be able to commute daily to the city. There are those...
Mixed bag at 'Tenky Miss Lou'
The third time around, 'Tenky Miss Lou', a birthday celebration for the Honourable Louise Bennett-Coverley in Gordon Town Square, St Andrew, was a mixed bag.After the daytime activities, which included tours of Miss Lou's former...
Lazy days at the market
I honestly felt as if I was being squashed between the curvy woman with the expansive bosom and the younger one in the short skirt and matching heels. No, I wasn't dreaming. Although, if I'm to be perfectly open about this, I do vaguely recall an eerily lifelike dream...