Stampduty relief - Gov't slashes taxes on imported meat, vegetables
Parliamentary Reporter THE GOVERNMENT yesterday announced the slashing of duty on several food items in order to stave off the high costs of imported meat and vegetable...

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Sangster's gives big
Haile Selassie student excels in CXC exams
Noel DaCosta elected new JCC president
Consumer Act gets go-ahead

Appointment of police inspectors to Federation's Branch Board - Judgment reserved to quash election
JUDGMENT HAS been reserved in the application brought by Inspector Max Marshalleck and several other inspectors who are seeking leave to go to the Judicial Review Court for orders to quash the election this year...

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Reconstruction office launches public campaign
More financial support for hurricane victims
US responsibility for J'can problems

Ja fails to make top 20 World Bank investment list for 2005
'DOING BUSINESS in 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth', a report co-sponsored by the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector lending arm of the World Bank Group fails to list Jamaica this time around...

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Island Grill expands local operations
Starapples and ValuCard win PSOJ employment award
Inflation targets will shift
ABCs of 'getting back' some insurance dollars
Microsoft to invest further in Jamaica
Global Development Learning Network launched

Change of format for NPL
A CHANGED format with all clubs playing each other once in the third round ranks among major alterations implemented for this season's Wray and Nephew National Premier League, which kicks off on Sunday.

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Total Motion for Royal Crest Trophy

Mayors talk tough
IN THE wake of the hurricane damage to building property in at least five parishes the Mayors have adopted a zero tolerance approach to prevailing laxity in enforcing preventive measures.

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The weapons controversy
A storm in education system
Distributing hurricane relief

Lesson from cricket on Caribbean unity
THE EDITOR, Sir: IT IS interesting that Barbados, the island that is far ahead of the other Caribbean islands on the human development report, should be pushing unitedly for the integration of the Caribbean into one social and economic unit...

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Swift action by NWC
New model police service needed
A. J.'s hum-a-long
The judging of beauty contests
No conflict between God and science
Mr Knight extremely ill-advised
Seeking J'can stamps
Jamaica in social lull
JPS Ruthven Road team

Acrobats thrill at Arena
WESTERN BUREAU:THE HAND is really quicker than the eye. And, for those who really work at it, the spine is more flexible than a rubber band. It is possible for 14 chairs to make a vertical ladder for a human Spider...

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'Disbelief... Utter disbelief!'

Not all fats are equal
T HERE ARE fats and then there are fats with capital letters. The point is that not all fats are equal. Fat in food can be either 'good' or bad. The 'good' fats are said to have a positive effect on blood cholesterol.

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Prevent diabetes with exercise
Renal (kidney) stones
One man's medicine