AS Christians prepare for the 40-day period of the Lenten season, they should also prepare to pay a high price for fish.

Thursday, February 23, 2012NEW YORK—A day after Dow 13,000, investors took a break. Stocks closed lower yesterday for the first time in four trading days.

Thursday, February 23, 2012DALLAS  — American Airlines says that because of job-sharing and other steps, it won't have to furlough 500 flight attendants this spring.

Thursday, February 23, 2012Guyana-based ANSA McAL Trading Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Guyana government for the establishment of an ethanol production project.

Thursday, February 23, 2012Overall market activity resulted from trading in six securities of which three advanced, one declined and two traded firm.

ROSEAU, Dominica -- A superb knock by Merissa Aguilleira took West Indies Women to a hard-fought victory over India Women in the third T20 International at Windsor Park on Wednesday. The courageous captain remained calm under pressure.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua -- An astonishing 45,000 kids from 1,500 primary schools all across the Caribbean are now equipped to play cricket through the donation of 1,500 Kiddy Cricket kits funded by Scotiabank. The Kiddy Cricket kits, which include bats...

The Windward Islands will not be worried about the “mystery spin” of Trinidad and Tobago off-spinner Sunil Narine when the teams meet starting tomorrow in Round Four of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Four Day Tournament.

Thursday, February 23, 2012 

Thursday, February 23, 2012 

Last Wednesday's staging of Reggae Wednesdays, at Emancipation Park in New Kingston, brought fresh talent to the city. The event, which is hosted every Wednesday for the duration of February, pulled hundreds of patrons to the park...

The community of Treasure Beach will kick off its celebrations of Jamaica's 50th anniversary of Independence with the inaugural staging of Treasure Beach Culturefest 2012 this weekend...

Every now and then a great party comes along, giving you a euphoric experience to remember.On Saturday, Club Privilege alongside Natalya Jackson and Lawless Event's Sherilla Gordon are promising just that with Worthy Gold Chrysalis, The Mystical...

Bolivia declares a state of emergency in response to severe flooding in the Amazon lowlands, where thousands have been forced to abandon their homes.

The director of a Mexican prison and 28 guards are arrested on suspicion of helping a mass breakout and the murder of 44 other inmates.

Chile reopens its main border crossing with Peru after closing it earlier this week when rain washed landmines onto the road.

At least 49 people have been killed in a train accident in Buenos Aires.

Abstract: New report puts Caribbean Community in crisis.

Dear Editor, Ken Chaplin's piece in your February 21 edition, "Jamaica House press briefing bastardised", was somewhat off course. At our first media briefing (not attended by Mr Chaplin), it was clearly stated that the post-Cabinet press briefings would be revamped as, among other things, we did not wish to have a situation as obtained previously, where partisan political matters, which have no place at such briefings, end up being included or even dominating post-Cabinet briefing sessions.

Dear Editor, Having a child can significantly alter the working lives of more than half of the women who are between the ages of 30 and 44. They are obliged to reduce their working hours, or in other cases, to leave work temporarily or even permanently. Children alone do not explain the difficulty of reconciling work and family. It also depends on female employment rates and on the low fertility of 1.34 children per woman. Member states of the European Parliament have a high fertility rate and

While we know that television broadcasting is financed by ads, I would think that in an effort to make the coverage of Carnival as complete as possible, an occasional recap of what viewers had missed would have been appropriate.

After 50 years, and as much as we would like to think otherwise, Jamaica is, in several respects, worse off than it was at the time of Independence in 1962.

Jamaicans should not allow the most recent fire at the Riverton City dump to become just another poorly managed crisis that fades from memory with its last embers.

Perhaps Jamaicans will be told soon what has motivated Mr Danville Walker to leave competitive politics just over three months after he was formally introduced with much fanfare as the Jamaica labour Party (JLP) candidate for Central Manchester.

Crisis can be precipitated by real or imagined events. This is particularly the case when information is incomplete or incorrect or when everyone does not have the same information.

THE visual evidence appears to suggest that Mr Courtney Simister, the losing boxer in the opening bout of the Wray & Nephew Contender Boxing Series at the Chinese Benevolent Association on Wednesday night, has a point when he suggests the contest was marred by unpunished technical fouls.

After "The Greatest Show on Earth" comes a most solemn time for reflection. Today, Ash Wednesday is the start of the six-week season of Lent.

On New Year’s Day 1998, the Independent newspaper, where I was a columnist, published a front page photograph of the decapitated head of Thackoor Boodram, a line of policemen standing behind, one grinning for the camera.

On the golden anniversary of Independence, Machel Montano has emerged as the golden boy of soca. In his clean sweep of the triple treat of Groovy Soca Monarch, Power Soca Monarch and Road March King titles, Machel is quite literally, monarch of all he surveys, at least in the kingdom of soca.

In my last article on “Our violent society” I wrote: “During a presentation to the Commission of Enquiry into the events of 1990 it was suggested that the organisation which attempted to overthrow the Government was able to attract many young people to what they saw as an ideal which would give meaning to their lives.

I was quite disturbed by a February 9, 2012 report by Caribbean360 at the following weblink:http://www.caribbean360.com/index.php/news/grenada_news/553956.html#ixzz1lzRjTKxP The report raised an alarm about the likelihood of the Maurice Bishop