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Pay up or else! - Heavy demands from extortionists halt several roadwork projects
EXTORTIONISTS ARE demanding that they be paid a permit fee of $5 million before major rehabilitation of the Tinson Pen Gully in Kingston can be carried out. The Sunday Gleaner has been reliably informed that a contract to correct the malfunctioning gully.
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Remittance inflows spiral
Tufton new G2K president
More women in workforce... cause for great concern?
Bad roads, unemployment top tasks for Parish Councils
Surgeons screen patients for HIV without consent
World Celebrates Teachers Day - Primary schools worldwide face shortage - UN
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Major changes to gun licence system coming
MORE THAN 250 guns belonging to licensed firearm holders islandwide are now in the hands of criminals. The police are describing this as 'alarming' and have said that the current review of the system under which licences are granted will see major...
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Robbery, extortion and murder
Unsafe food products in local marketplace - Experts blame breakdown of safety standards
'Taxes' hit workers on sites hard
NHT targets unscrupulous employers
Early winter tourist season predicted
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The cost of day care Juggling parenthood and a career
MORE AND more mothers of pre-school children are forced to find employment because of the prevalence of the single-parent household and the increasing cost of living. Although some parents can rely on relatives to play the role of babysitter, day-care...
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Heading for bankruptcy? - The solution may be to downgrade
Government blocks Joslin on Dorchester apartment sale
Fiscal figures are cause for concern
Karl Hendrickson inducted into PSOJ Hall of Fame
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Reno must win, says Maxwell
WESTERN BUREAU: IT IS only a month into the Wray and Nephew National Premier League (NPL) season but already former champions Reno and Tivoli are facing what they term "must win games" this afternoon.
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Ja ready to unleash on Windwards
'Charlie' trounce Jose Marti
Rear Admiral captures feature
William Knibb end Cornwall super run to advance
Two bad shots by the Windies board
Waterhouse ready to battle Star Cosmos
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The deep crisis of education
THE DILAPIDATED condition of the Ministry of Education building at Heroes' Circle which the Minister, Maxine Henry-Wilson, has pledged to rehabilitate, reflects the state of education in Jamaica, if Dr. Ralph Thompson's cogent analysis of the 2003 CXC...
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Public Affairs - Seaga - unchallenged all the way
The darlings of the media
For whom the roads toll
Interfaith relations
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Letter Of The Day - Moulding worthy characters
THE EDITOR, Sir: HOW ANY individual expects to be treated by his fellowman is not only a matter of reciprocity but rests largely on how that fellowman has been socialised. Over the past decade or two, the responsibility for the socialisation of...
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The roast breadfruit mentality
Love yourself, Dawn
Incensed!
A disconnected nation
Seeking some inspiration
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Balancing that baby - Having a career and a family
THE ADAGE 'The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world' gets a bit tricky when a woman juggles a baby (or two, or three) in one hand while balancing the world in the other.
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Money flies off the turntable
George 'Fish' Alphonse keeps St Lucian theatre going
New, more 'Graceful' after 32 years
Everything big, and then some
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Flowers - The Photographer's Favourite
SOMEONE ONCE said, "Flowers are the most beautiful things that God ever made and didn't give a soul." Every time I'm about to photograph a flower, I realise that I am face-to-face with one of God's most exquisite creations, even more so, when I view...
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Building Jamaica with greatness
'A wi language'
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Intrepid spirit
BERYL ANDERSON is said to be among the first three women in Jamaica to drive a car when the automobile was first introduced here in the early 1920s; she retired her Volkswagen Beetle when she was 90 years old. Until then, she was regularly seen on the...
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Beauty from hard labour
IN THE KITCHEN - Ital cuisine
Taxes and sex
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Mismanaging structural adjustment
TWO STATEMENTS from the Government in recent times should confirm for those who still had doubts, the exhaustion, nay bankruptcy, of the Government and the seemingly rudderless drift of development policy. The first occurred at the end of a recent...
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Rethinking the PNP
The PNP at a crossroad
In search of a 'generic God'
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