JUTC to axe 300
SOME 300 employees of the state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit (bus) Company (JUTC) are to be sent home next week, as the first phase of a retrenchment based on recommendations made by Swedish experts comes into effect.

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New process to speed up civil cases revealed
THE SUPREME Court has introduced new measures that will allow the settlement of civil cases through mediation. This is a departure from the previous system where cases were heard in a series of trials.

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Lord Mayor in favour of UK visa system
Men in bus driver murder case remanded
Briton freed of ganja charge
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Drinks up! - Devaluation leads Red Stripe to increase price of its products
A 34 PER cent devaluation of the Jamaican dollar over the past four years, as well as rising expenses for haulage, security and insurance coverage have all combined to push Red Stripe into increasing the prices of its products.

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PriceSmart to pump another $55 million into J'can operations
DB&G/ITMB merger gets conditional approval
GTN facilitates trade deals in Jamaica
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Granville Taylor's Wood Products stays unbowed
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Turmoil at Reno, JFF steps in
WESTERN BUREAU: WESTERN STRIKERS Football Company Limited (WSFCL), the company that ran the affairs of former Premier League champions Reno FC until they were relieved of it on Monday night...

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Hooper, Lara and Windies confident
Service gets WICB job
Hooper upbeat on World Cup
Rush on for final berths
Harbour View on the prowl
Indoor netball court on target

On nuclear research
THE BUSH Administration should be relieved to hear that the nuclear research being conducted on the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies has nothing to do with military objectives.

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Parliamentary salaries
The machinery of death

Exporting trained labour good for Ja
THE EDITOR, Sir: I AM alarmed that the Ministry of Education continues to think in the past, seeing the recruiting of educated Jamaicans for overseas employment as being bad for the country.

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JUTC should be in private hands
What about our 'reciprocal rights'?
J'cans...victims of UK public relations
Are there loopholes?
Thank you officers
The slaughter house

Less than 'Thrilled' singer departs
IT IS said that all good things must come to an end, save salvation. That rule of thumb holds firm once again, as Leroy Smith, lead male vocalist, has decided to sever a 23-year-long love affair with the renowned gospel group, the Grace Thrillers.

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An interesting combination

BLURRED VISIONS Signs of diabetes
The eyes are said to be the windows of the soul but they may also present early signs of diabetes USUALLY THE average person begins to wonder if he has developed diabetes when he is urinating too frequently...

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Control diabetes