Maroons seek redress from C&W, Digicel
THE MAROONS of Accompong in St. Elizabeth are seeking compensation from the island's two leading cell phone companies, Cable and Wireless and Digicel for damage, they say, that was done to personal property when both companies set up separate cell tower..

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Students may benefit from US DREAM Act
Should overseas J'cans vote in our elections?
JUTC management worried over strike threat
Schools lose millions
Downpayments made but no computers
Cut in tertiary subsidy not the way - Sir William
UK rejects Jamaican teachers with diplomas

Tough going for some J'can teachers in UK
FOREIGN TEACHERS including Jamai-cans who arrive in England in search of jobs without having been directly recruited from their home territories are doing so at great risk, a teacher recruitment agency in London has warned.

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Clarendon agency says street people neglected
Courts Jamaica boosts local garment industry
Squabble over warders review

Tourism industry looks to 3 million arrivals
THE JAMAICA Tourist Board (JTB) is making attempts to streamline its organisation and broaden the perception of Jamaica as an all-inclusive/couples destination to incorporate all that Jamaica has to offer.

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Paymaster signs embassy deal
Record production at ALPART
JMMB's profits recover in Q2

Waterhouse on fire
HISTORY UNFOLDED yesterday when the two politically divided teams played a true home game for the first time in 24 years. When it was done, 'Firehouse' burned their way into the end-of-first round final with a 2-1 win.

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Portmore, H/View eye 'final'
Griffiths notches Caymanas three-timer
DaCosta Cup - Seaforth shock Dinthill
Manning Cup - Bridgeport, Excelsior set up big clash
Commentary - The Jermaine Lawson saga

Editorial - Presidents who soldier on...
MOST NATIONAL leaders, like old soldiers, seem to fade praised or reviled into the pages of history. Our own Prime Minister says he will make his exit sometime in the present term; his opposite number, the Opposition Leader, stays mum.

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Dangers of social unrest
George W. Bush is on the right path
Reformation or decline?

Letter of the day - A tale of inncompetence
THE EDITOR, Sir: HAVING HEARD of the death of Jennifer Brown, a young woman infected with HIV through the negligence of the state, and for whom they have accepted responsibility, I am appalled at the treatment meted out to her!

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Ja has broken my heart
We are not counsellors
Disappointed by the British Embassy
Searching for Sidney Innis
Moravians' position on homosexuality

Producers seek foreign screens
LOCAL FREE-to air television is still filled with material from the United States. While this makes it great for catching up on your favourite cable show, it leaves producers of local content without support for their products.

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Don't cry for me my Ja
Jamaicans top Hollywood championships
Social - A whale of a surprise

What's on your canvas?
THE CURRENT art exhibition at the Pegasus Gallery is titled 'Happy Times'. It represents the output of Jeffrey Grant, a Jamaican graduate of the School of Art at the Edna Manley College and Omoruyi Otalor, a Nigerian for whom Jamaica has been home...

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French Embassy honours Mutual Gallery curator
Remembering a visionary

Michael 'Ibo' Cooper's visions of a great Black society
INSIDE the office of 'Ibo' Cooper, head of the department of Popular Music, the dim afternoon light fails to hide the highly polished, though worn, wooden floors and the gleaming piano.

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Baby blues: men have them too
A humble J'can millionaire

Do not ease up on criminals
THE GOVERNMENT and the hierarchy of the police force have been seized of the gravity of the disastrously and terrifyingly low levels of trust between the Jamaican people and the police force... (Boyne)

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Policing a high-crime society
Early education in Jamaica - Cheating poor children
Horsing around - Jamaica in embarrassing situation
Fighting party and government corruption