Down and out
Local firms lose multimillion$ contracts
SEVERAL LOCAL garment manufacturers have lost lucrative contracts valued at millions of dollars as more corporate firms ask overseas companies to make and supply ...

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Cubans deported
Multimillion$ upgrade for MoBay Cargo Terminal
The Gleaner and The Voice in acquisition talks

Speeding main cause of deaths
Lack of equipment makes it difficult for police to monitor traffic violations
A SEVERE lack of equipment used to monitor traffic violations has made it difficult for the Jamaica Constabulary Force to carry out its work. According to the JCF, they have ...

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St Catherine, Clarendon parishes with major black spots
Common policy needed on region's cruise industry
Mona moves to increase access

Jamaican dollar fixed income market
THE JAMAICAN dollar fixed income market experienced tight liquidity conditions this week. There were inflows of J$1.729 billion from BoJ COSH maturities, LRS maturities and LRS coupon payments. Consequently, secondary market repo rates trended upwards....

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Why a Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Back-to-school budget bust

Jamaica Under-23 team takes on Cuba
JAMAICA'S NATIONAL Under-23 football team tackles hosts Cuba in a first round Olympic qualifying game this afternoon at 4:00 p.m. in Havana. The team left the island on Friday evening in a bid to increase its chances of representing Jamaica at the 2004..

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Powell to lead Jamaicans at Grand Prix meet
Royal Run captures feature
Rusea's, St. George's victorious
Manning and DaCosta Cup action gets under way

The enigma of Bolt in Paris
SO USAIN Bolt was not mentally prepared for competition in Paris. This is the youngster who has been described in superlatives in media reports and who touched the hearts of many Jamaicans when he tore up the track in the 2002 World Junior games on home..

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Simmering labour discontent
Rock-stone Labourites should have a say
Selecting the next JLP leader
UWI trends and policy needs

Letter of the day:
'The Mozart Factor'
THE EDITOR, Sir: I READ with great interest the Letter of the Day on August 26, 2003, which referred to the status of our music today, and this triggered my mind to recall a magazine item I recently heard on the BBC called the Mozart Factor. A school's.

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Crime Plan ­ with education
Concerned citizen
A terrific disparity

The multi-talented Howard Daly
IT WAS with amazement and delight that, 22 years ago, the multi-talented Guyanese teacher and performer Howard Daly heard about Jamaica's Cultural Training Centre ...

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Three a universe make
84 special 'BIBS' for Miss Lou

'Conversations' with three artists
THREE TALENTED female artists have joined forces to present Conversations at the Mutual Gallery and Art Centre on Oxford Road in New Kingston. And what conversation pieces ...

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Laugh and the world laughs....
Creatively brewed

Pearnel Charles has... Too many rivers to cross
TO SAY that Pearnel Charles has paid his dues is to be guilty of a gross understatement. The persecutions he has undergone in his own party, the attacks against him ...-...Ian Boyne

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Deadbeat dads and other losers
Party democracy: Local versus central power