Urban renewal scheme - PM outlines $multi-billion housing programme
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson announced a multi-billion dollar urban renewal programme yesterday but he insisted that he had no plans to create political or social "garrisons" through it.

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KSAC offers alternatives to Jubilee market vendors
Publishing industry calls for review of new taxes
New NHT changes
Cops suspended after prisoner escapes
Met Service explains the solar halo

Banana industry gets boost
THE STRUGGLING banana sector yesterday received J$278.9 million (4.7 million euros) in financing from the European Union-funded Banana Export Programme.

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Clarke bats for use of local potatoes
New basic school opened
Police launches 'Torch Run'
Mail tender case to be heard at trial
Patterson scoffs at impeachment proposal
Security guard shot dead by gunman
New crime-fighting plan in St Andrew South

Share objectives will be met - Andrew Cocking
DEPUTY PRESIDENT of Capital & Credit Holdings, Andrew Cocking, says he expects Capital & Credit Merchant Bank (CCMB) to achieve the objectives of its share offer.

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Patrick Hylton, Ravi Rambarran headed for NCB
Ernst & Young rewarding top entrepreneurs
Consequences of a car accident while using a cell phone
Lending profitably to agriculture
Guardian boosts insurance presence
Lending small is good business
Rebuild Jubilee Market - Chamber of Commerce
'Palm Pilots', personal digital assistants at your finger tip
Local television claws back market share

Sunshine Girls shoot for tie
THE England netball squad will no doubt feel at home in Mandeville's cool climes...

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Play Lawson and Best, says Holding
Adams says thanks to Lara, Walsh and Kanhai
Ferron spins Manley to victory
Business House netball gets a home
Win, draw, or else
STETHS, Holmwood battle for Headley Cup
Berbick cleared of burglary charge
Reggae Boyz ready for SA

School expulsions
GROWING INDISCIPLINE in our secondary schools is becoming a national problem and, in the absence of any clear policy guidelines, decisions by school boards on what action should be taken to control it are often overruled by the Ministry of Education.

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North Korea's nukes
Marriage and 'the kept woman'
Disappointing budget

Honouring our true heroes
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE BABBLE engaged in by the politicians, in the southwest St. Ann constituency, would be comedic if these fellows were not in deadly earnest.

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Whither the San San Beach
The only true path
So near, yet so far
Confused
Performance pay for teachers
Thanks to the citizens of Clarendon
The family of Gregory Clarke

J'ouvert : Get painted or stay home
THERE WAS a sea of people last Friday night at the National Housing Trust's (NHT) parking lot in New Kingston, just opposite the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel.

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'X2' is 'X-cellent'
Jazz sparkles in the garden

National Health Fund Crackdown on chronic diseases
The National Health Fund (NHF) will have far-reaching impact - Dr. Winston Davidson, past president, Medical Association of Jamaica.

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Case study: Diabetes + GCT
Herbal teas edge out medicines
Travel advice lifted