Fever pitch! - Olympic legend calls Champs atmosphere the stepping stone to greatness
Boys and Girls' Athletic Championships, outside of bringing tremendous excitement to a full stadium of Jamaicans once a year, provides unforgettable moments for those the competition is all about - the athletes. Champs began yesterday and action gets under way ...
- Agents wanted for community change
- Royal welcome for quiz champs
- Scalpers selling Saturday's grandstand tickets for $3,000
Hunting a giant lizard
It was a warm, lazy Tuesday afternoon and John, Rusty and Donald were lounging in the shade of an old common mango tree in the hills of Grove Town, Manchester.Grove Town is a red-dirt community of only a few hundred residents. It's close to the more popular Cross Keys...
- Student loans to be focused on areas critical to national development
- Fake cop walks free
- Thursdaytalk - Hottest topics on the cocktail circuit
A financial apocalypse?
Almost every couple of years, the world has faced a new 'apocalypse', and for each one we have rightly wondered and worried how these larger global rumblings might affect us in Jamaica. This was true for the millennium bug, the tsunami disasters...
St Hugh's, Wolmer's lead
St Hugh's High were the surprise leaders among the girls while Wolmer's Boys were in front of Kingston College in the boys' race at the end of competition on the first day of the 2009 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletic Championships at the National Stadium...
EDITORIAL - Strong vision must accompany tough budget
Although he will table the estimates of expenditure in less than a week's time, Audley Shaw, the finance minister, and his boss, Prime Minister Bruce Golding, still have time to refine, or even rewrite, the budget they intend to present ...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Councillors are elected representatives too
The Editor, Sir:Every three years, or at a frequency dictated by Parliament, Jamaica conducts national local government polls which brings with it the election of 227 parish councillors and, since 2003, a mayor in Portmore...
Mary Isaacs shines at Redbones
In the later stages and in the second outfit of her concert at Redbones the Blues Café last Friday night, Mary Isaacs pointed out that the Braemar Avenue, New Kingston, restaurant is a special place. She said that when she returned to Jamaica ...
Food for champs
Outside of the Olympics, Boys and Girls' Champs is one of the most anticipated sporting events for most Jamaicans. This is when alumni come out of the woodwork and school loyalty really counts. But like the athletes on the field giving their all, as spectators...