Lead Stories
Patterson, business heads meet today

PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson will go into talks with business leaders this afternoon, following a lengthy emergency Cabinet meeting yesterday. It is expected that the business leaders will present specific proposals to stem the current rate of crime as.

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Street people report ready
14 given JNBS awards
JPSCo to cut staff
SRC, Shipping Association to develop Waste Reception Facility
Minibus operator loses appeal

News
Tourism sector fears US travel advisory
TOURISM INTERESTS are worried that Jamaica's crime problem could force the United States, the sector's leading market, into issuing a travel advisory that could be damaging to this country. The US State Department, last year, issued a travel advisory...

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Congested streets of Downtown Kingston
Dons extort millions - Businesses, sidewalk vendors said paying $400m a year
Campaign under way to reduce vehicular emissions
Cement Company donates cash to UTech's Sculpture Park
Shaw decries government's performance at NAJASO parley

Business
'Details' slow Union Bank sale

A process of accounting for all of Union Bank's fixed assets and pricing the institution's $20 billion plus Government paper is delaying the long awaited sale of the merged bank to Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (RBTT). The sale of the bank was...

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New rules for execs
Cash for JF Mills investors at last
Grace profit set to hit $1b
Compliments and comments

Sport
Honours shared on first day

LONDON - THE fifth and final Test between the West Indies and England got off to an exciting start at the Oval yesterday with the tourists, thanks to legspinner Mahendra Nagamootoo and fast bowler Nixon McLean, finishing in style to share the honours...

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Rusea's hard to beat
Glenmuir ­ the talented bunch
New strike force to lead Holmwood
Peace & Love a safe banker

Commentary
Extortion racket
THE EXTORTION racket, with downtown businesses and higglers as the primary targets, has flourished to finance crime lords with millions in protection money. The 'protection', supposedly, is to ensure that the premises of the victims are not broken into...

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Crime: putting ideas on the table
Dear school children
Is the Internet revolution over?
News as a tool

Letters
Crime a reflection of injustice
THE EDITOR MADAM: I APPLAUD Mr. Gordon 'Butch' Stewart coming out and saying what most of us are feeling. The level of fear in this country is making living here untenable. Few would disagree with his analysis that what the Government is doing is not...

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An energy solution for Jamaica
Country Duppy: a most entertaining play
A response to Burke and Butch
Six questions for the PM

Entertainment
All-time top ten singles
Western Bureau: IT TOOK over half-a-century for a record to outstrip Bing Crosby's 1942 White Christmas as the top-selling single of all time.

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Sashi good for economy

Showtime
Music industry flays Minister
KEY PLAYERS in the entertainment industry say the appointment of a Minister of Entertainment is a joke. In fact, many say Minister Portia Simpson Miller has been given a "basket to carry water."

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Hotel management says 'thanks' to staff
Getting it on at The Ritz

Star Page
32 years of marital bliss

GILBERT and Henrietta Williams got married on August 28, 1968, in the grand traditional Indian style. She was 16, he 26. It was so grand a wedding, it lasted for three days.

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Unidentical identical twins
Vibrant J'can actress