Race on to rule post-war Iraq
THE UNITED States plans to install the first stages of a civil administration to run post-war Iraq in the southern port of Umm Qasr within days, a U.S. official said yesterday. Members of the Pentagon's Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian...

Female applicants to fire brigade getting raw deal
WHILE HUNDREDS of male applicants to the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) are flunking literacy tests annually, their female counterparts have been passing in droves. However, due to a lack of adequate facilities for these women, many have had to give up...

Big bucks for Corruption Commission
WHEN IT comes to fighting corruption, the Government seems to have put its money where its mouth is. According to the 2003/2004 Estimates of Expenditure, tabled in the House of Representatives last Thursday, the P.J. Patterson-led administration...

CARICOM heads to discuss impact of Iraq war
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP): OCEANS AWAY from the United States-led strike on Iraq, Caribbean countries yesterday were to begin mapping out ways to deal with the economic impact of the war in the Middle East.

Pro-peace or anti-everything?
FOR THE last two months the world's citizens have demonstrated against a United States-led war against Iraq. Two weeks into the current campaign these anti-war protests continue. In the English Midlands more than 1,000 people came out, onto the streets.

The US embassy in Jamaica responds to Iraq issues
MORE THAN a fortnight since United States President George Bush declared war on Iraq, CARICOM's public condemnation of the attack, and the reports of massive loss of civilian lives in the Gulf, The Sunday Gleaner sought an up-to-date reaction from the...