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Bouygues gets nod - Portmore leg of Highway 2000 on schedule
TREVOR JACKSON, managing director of TransJamaica Highway, said yesterday that the construction of the Portmore leg of the ambitious Highway 2000 project is on schedule and toll collections will begin as planned in January 2006.
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Peruvian smuggling ring smashed
Hospital shortage tackled
Access to Information Act enters second phase
Gleaner salutes teachers
Tributes pour in for 'Sir Coxsone'
Region still premier cruise destination
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BNS ex-employees on fraud rap face court
WESTERN BUREAU: THERE WAS a dramatic start to a fraud case in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday in which four former employees of the Bank of Nova Scotia, Ltd., Westgate, Montego Bay...
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Free Media Pioneer Award winner named
Bruce 'under fire'
Transport Authority urges taxi operators to get stickers
Hundreds of cell phones taken from prisoners
Principal calls for student code
Lack of water causes major damage
Businessman freed of charges
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BoJ lowers interest rates... again
THE BANK of Jamaica (BoJ) has once again lowered the rates on its open market instruments. Following the pattern of its last rate decrease on April 19, the central bank has dropped between 20 to 50 basis points.
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Dollar weak vs euro
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England level series
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP): MARCUS TRESCOTHICK blazed 82 runs to catapult England to a comfortable five-wicket victory against West Indies in the seventh one-day cricket international at Kensington Oval yesterday.
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Track stars start arriving
The fans and West Indies cricket
Simpson boots home four winners
Holmwood take the initiative
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A music icon passes
THE SUDDEN passing of Clement Dodd, the man celebrated in the music industry as 'Sir Coxsone' of Studio One, has left a vacuum in the Jamaican cultural scene which will not be filled easily.
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Globalisation and language
The wealthy ones
Disappearing babies
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Looking for a new dawn on the education horizon
THE EDITOR, Sir: AT THE National Validation Roundtable on April 21, 2004 the National Vision for Education was articulated and validated by a wide cross section of concerned Jamaicans.
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Education, a casualty of politics
Will Simpson Miller still become PM?
Give teachers some credit
US foreign policy
Ridiculous manslaughter sentence
Mandeville's inadequate water supply
Commodore forgotten
Demon possession
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In his golden years
SOMETIMES, IF carefully nurtured, a dream deferred can ripen into a beautiful fruit. Raymond Mair deferred his dream of writing full-time most of his life. Now, in his golden years, it is finally happening.
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Low turnout at Musicians Week launch
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Cure for crime - Chang proposes social programmes for inner cities
WESTERN BUREAU: MEMBER OF Parliament for North West St. James, Dr. Horace Chang, has renewed his call for a social intervention programme to address the upsurge of violence in the parish...
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Frome factory on track to meet sugar crop target
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Against the grain
Forbidden! Rice so good it was once reserved exclusively for the emperors of China ACCORDING TO Chinese legend black rice was once reserved exclusively for the emperor, hence the name Forbidden Rice.
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Wine and dine your mom
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