Oct 16 is E-Day
SPECULATION AND anxiety ended for Jamaicans last night when Prime Minister P.J. Patterson announced the date of the general election as Wednesday, October 16. Nomination Day will be next Monday, September 30.

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Senate wraps up business
WHAT appeared to have been its final sitting before general election is called, the Senate last Friday completed a heavy schedule, passing five Bills in a marathon session.

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FROM THE JLP'S MANIFESTO
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Munro in key showdown
FORMER CHAMPIONS and zone leaders Munro College, will travel to Black River in today's feature game of a rescheduled round of matches in the Pepsi/Sports Plus daCosta Cup schoolboy football competition.

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Injury and indiscipline wounding Cumberland
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Young Boyz march on

Oaths of Allegiance
INDEPENDENT SENATOR Douglas Orane said it simply: changing the Oaths of Allegiance makes common sense and "represents what the Jamaican nation is all about." So why all the fuss and heated debate between Government and Opposition legislators?

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Ethics in public life
Dancing on the ceiling
The poor - our first priority

A word to 'Sister P'
THE EDITOR, Sir: KINDLY ALLOW me to address an issue which has been troubling me since I read Portia Simpson Miller's response to Audley Shaw's argument regarding the debacle at the JTB's New York office.

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In praise of Allison Fletcher
This is usury
The hurt of victimisation
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TVJ and the trivialising of serious issues
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Election promises and debt

Artistes sing for peace
IN THE hope of promoting a peaceful election, the song Together We All has been released. The single, along with a video, was released last Thursday at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. Although rains from Isidore continued to pour...

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Optimist of the Year named
Rastafarians plan for Emperor Selassie's grandson's visit

Is society unkind in the way it treats mature women?
MAISIE LEWIS smiles and tells us today that she turned 51 in December. The young widower, noting that her children are grown, says that she is just ready to 'live'.

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