Obama set to ease Cuban ban on travel, money
The Obama administration intends to allow Americans to visit relatives in Cuba and send money back to their families in the communist island nation, senior US officials said yesterday.

'Threats to security, economy are worldwide'
From terrorism to the economic meltdown, problems menacing the United States' security and economy also threaten an increasingly interconnected world, President Barack Obama said yesterday.

Michelle Obama dodges protesters
It was perhaps not what Michelle Obama expected on her first presidential foray to France. But it was certainly French. Anti-war and anti-capitalist protesters tangled the streets of the Alsatian city of Strasbourg and thwarted her planned visit to an anti-cancer research centre with other spouses of NATO leaders.

Inside the city of Riverton
FROM THE northern hills overlooking the city of Kingston the view is panoramic, breathtaking. Kingston sizzles, and the sea in the distance is mesmerising. On a clear day you can see forever. The dream then is to live in a mansion on those hills. Yet, that dream might as well fester as a sore for some of the residents of Riverton City and its environs.

Budget '09 - No decrease in money for constituencies
THERE WILL be no reduction in the money allocated to members of parliament (MPs) to spend in their constituencies this year despite the financial downturn in Jamaica.

LOST GENERATION - 'Ananda will never be forgotten'
THE GRADE Six teacher at the Swallowfield Primary and Junior High School in St Andrew, Dale-Ann Motta-Rady, had Ananda Dean for only three weeks. But in that short time, she could ascertain that Ananda would have done well at her Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT).

Rusal's health worries Jamaica
ALUMINIUM PRODUCING giant UC RUSAL, which is based in Russia, may widen output cuts to up to 20 per cent - 11 per cent more than it originally announced - as it takes steps to reduce costs and save the beleaguered company from bankruptcy.