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News
Leaders in the making
MORE THAN 2,000 young people from various inner-city communities, clubs, schools and the Jamaica Combined Cadet Force, are vying for gold, silver and bronze medals in the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme. "This figure could increase to 4,000 or 5,000...
Riders in chain collision
WESTERN BUREAU: TWO PEOPLE were admitted to hospital in a critical condition yesterday following a collision involving three motorcycles from Kingston on their way to a beach trip in Montego Bay, and a motorcar.
Supersized
generation
XXL
CLOSE CONTACT with the eating culture of developed countries has produced the "supersize-it" generation in Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean. Dr. Manuel Pena, Country Representative in Jamaica of PAHO/WHO, calls them "generation XXL - the junk...
Fast foods dominating
Jamaicans' diet
THE JAMAICAN tradition of eating at least two meals at home is fast disappearing and faster foods are becoming the main diet of thousands of people. 'The Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions 1999', published recently by the Planning Institute of Jamaica..
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