Air Jamaica to seek US$35m
AIR JAMAICA needs US$35 million in working capital to soar above its post 9/11 baggage, chairman Gordon "Butch" Stewart, confirmed yesterday. "We are going to the market to seek US$35 million in another few months, that all I can say for the time...

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Golding demands clear policy on US Marshals
More med techs get summonses
Nicholson to push for courthouses rehabilitation

MPs renew call for new Parliament
LEGISLATORS have once again complained about the inadequacy of the facilities at Gordon House and called for the hastening of plans to build a new Parliament. The issue surfaced at Wednesday's joint meeting of the House of Senate committees...

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British, local youth share experiences
Farmer shot dead in Trelawny
Kingston School of Nursing students to get stipends

Trinidad & Tobago spikes gas plans - Hylton blames politics for new position on LNG
ENERGY POLICY adviser to the Government, Anthony Hylton, yesterday attributed Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Patrick Manning's denial that he had offered to sell natural gas to Jamaica at concessionary rates, as the result of political cleavage in..

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Big bucks earmarked for minor roadways

Windies down and out
THE WEST Indies' dream of winning the World Cup of cricket and breaking the drought that stretches back to 1979 was all but over when they lost by seven runs to Sri Lanka in an exciting day/night contest in Cape Town yesterday. Set a victory target...

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Opener Parchment shines for Jamaica
Pick-9 fever at the Park

Editorial: Value of Joint Industrial Councils
THE DECISION of the Jamaica Society for Industrial Security (JSIS) to pull out of the talks on the formation of a Joint Industrial Council (JIC) for the private security industry is unfortunate. The JICs came into being in 1952 to promote...

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The demise of Jamaica Mutual Life
Europeans hijacked Black history and pride
Organic agriculture: an alternative for the future

LETTER OF THE DAY: Justice for the common man
THE CIVIL Procedure Rules came into effect on January 1, 2003. The rules govern proceedings in the Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica and they are one big step in the right direction. The Act seeks to eliminate time-wasting, to always espouse the...

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Victim of KSAC parking racket
Talk show host unfair on pay issue
The scope of downtown Kingston's redevelopment
Review the Spelling Bee
The media set the precedent
Bush's insane war cry on Iraq
Colin Powell should take his own advice

VC didn't fall short
SINGER VALTON Craigie popularly known as 'V.C.' did not fall short on his promise to make his performance worth the audience's while when he did the songs that are to be on his upcoming album Between the Doors. The show, which saw V.C. singing a number..

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Farmers benefit from eastern Jamaica agricultural project
FOUR THOUSAND nine hundred (4,900) farmers in St. Thomas, Portland, St. Mary and St. Andrew, have now benefited from financial and technical assistance under the Ministry of Agriculture's Eastern Jamaica Agricultural Support Project (EJASP), while the...

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Fostering greater interest in poultry rearing
Scientific Research Council produces disease-free plantlets
Markets guaranteed for local nutmeg
Banana workers benefit from training course

Bogue records progress
THE JAMAICA Public Service Company (JPSCo) is now in the final phases of construction on its 120-megawatt combined cycle generating plant, which will put the company in a better position to "provide consistent electricity supply to customers", the...

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Two decades of the Kingston Restoration Company
My plan for downtown

A different class
It's GSAT crunch time for nervous grade 6 students across the island who are scheduled to sit the annual exam March 27 and 28. At ages 10, 11 or 12, their GSAT results could decide their path in life. Most will perform competently, but not the ones like..

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Help for exceptional children - These children are not slow, dunce or rude, says educator
In the garden with...Millie Braham