'Good summit'
Patterson, Seaga agree on 7 points
COMING OUT of their summit at Vale Royal yesterday, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson and Opposition Leader Edward Seaga have agreed that any change to the composition of the Police Services Commission (PSC), must be part of the agenda for Constitutional...

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JEF wants changes to Redundancy Pay Act
Air J faces bleak winter prospects
Bird faces sex charges

NORMAN MANLEY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE AWARDEE WOODROW MITCHELL:
Wants greater say for those at 'grassroots'
THE PRESTIGIOUS Norman Washington Manley Founda-tion Award for Excellence for 2002 was presented to 53-year-old managing director of Walkerswood Caribbean Foods Ltd., Woodrow "Woody" Mitchell, in Kingston,...

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Prices of chicken meat jump again
Consumers to pay more as of Monday
NWA issues ultimatum to slow-pace contractors
Gunmen on rampage in downtown Kingston

MoBay expects boost from new flights
WESTERN BUREAU: TOURISM OFFICIALS in Montego Bay are optimistic that the addition of three new flights to the number coming into the Sangster International Airport will significantly boost the city's ailing tourism industry.

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Ja, US reach 'Open Skies' agreement

CRICKET:-
Windies take command
KOLKATA, CMC: SHIVNARINE CHANDERPAUL stroked a superb sixth Test century and shared in a bossy unbroken 191-run stand with Marlon Samuels as the West Indies took full command against India on the third day of the final Test match at the Eden Gardens...

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FOOTBALL:-
Wolmer's, KC in KO semis
HORSERACING:-
El Matador for Grooms Trophy

A high level of analysis
THE RECENT election campaign was outstanding for the degree of analysis and punditry that it engendered. Prompted no doubt by the proliferation in media, the electorate was subjected to polls, the prognostications of a psephologist and opinions, not all..

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A retrospective on the general election of October 16

LETTER OF THE DAY:-
Improving the tourism product
THE EDITOR, Sir: I WAS always concerned about our total dependency on tourism as our main foreign exchange earner as this industry is so fragile. I always wish that we could come up with more ingenious ways of earning foreign exchange or to look to other

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Be proud to be Jamaican
It was a pleasure to live in Jamaica
Malvo and the US media
Now is not the time to hide

BCCI celebrates 40 fantastic years
THE BRITISH Caribbean Insurance Company (BCCI) celebrated 40 years in fine style at The Lounge at the University of the West Indies, Mona on Thursday night.The setting was posh, even without the gold curtains that adorned the columns...

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Molineaux 'jazzes up' the Grogge

Farmers unhappy with PNP record
WESTERN BUREAU: THE PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) is in Government for an unprecedented fourth term. By a reduced margin, the majority of voters considered the incumbent party as best suited to run the country for the next five years...

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Negotiations progress over GM papaya

JPSCo boosts capacity
...but unaccounted for supplies also rise

THE JAMAICA Public Service Company generated some 607.1 megawatts of electricity in the second quarter of 2002 to improve the dip in production it has experienced within the last year. Its present performance is only a slight 0.6 per cent change over...

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Three months to report defects

Christmas CASH Jingle Bells, debt toll knells
There are eight weekends left before Christmas. If you haven't started already, you need to get thinking about how you're going to afford the bill for the biggest spending spree of the year.

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