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Rolling the dice
'Casino gambling would provide billions for education'
DR. RALPH Thompson, a member of the National Council on Education, said yesterday that the introduction of casino gambling would be the answer to funding the $52 billion per year needed to transform the education system over the next 10 years.
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Highway toll road opens
PM continues to wait for DPP report
Multimillion-dollar police, health facility for Grants Pen
Gov't to review cost-sharing proposal
Deputy Commissioner Owen Clunie resigns
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Take a child home for Xmas
PUBLIC DEFENDER Howard Hamilton is encouraging members of the public to take wards of the state into their homes this Christmas season.
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Call for regional plan to monitor HIV/AIDS spread
German ambassador gives relief assistance
Soldiers destroy makeshift airstrip
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Port backlog comments anger JMA head
FUMING FROM comments reportedly questioning her credibility and the way she has been handling the backlog problems affecting manufacturers at the ports in recent time, Doreen Frankson, president of the Jamaica Manufacturers Association,...
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Hoteliers optimistic as winter season opens
Remittance intake to swell this year
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Pick-9 sales go sky high
PICK-9 ACTIVITY intensified at Caymanas Park yesterday with sales going through the roof. However, for the eighth consecutive raceday, no punter was good enough to spot all nine winners.
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Bangladesh, India under tight security
Mighty Glenmuir reign supreme
Setting the record straight - JFF
Harbour View rule Carib turf
Jones sues BALCO head
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Editorial - Good education report
THE REPORT of the special Task Force on education chaired by Dr. Rae Davis and its findings tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, are a vindication of the voices which have been calling for reform, a range of opinions which this newspaper has championed...
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We don't need another hero (or holiday)
Blowing bubbles
From whence cometh rights?
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Letter of the day - Idiocy in government
THE EDITOR, Sir: JAMAICA IS indeed a strange place. We have a minister of education and we have two junior ministers of education, yet it was still necessary for the Prime Minister to appoint a task force to study and advise the government...
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Bedroom privacy?
Leaders must have guts
More care needed in media
Poor garbage disposal habits
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Joan Andrea Hutchinson tell it by the book
JOAN ANDREA Hutchinson is now live and in living black and white with the 'bussing' of her first book Mek Mi Tell Yuh. The anthology of poems and prose was launched at the undercroft of the University of the West Indies, Mona on Tuesday.
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Poets take root
Trees planted for Miss Lou, Mikey Smith
Experience 11 years of Stella Maris
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Fancy feast
'Tis the day to eat, drink and make merry and we've gone all out to help you make Christmas day dinner a memorable affair.
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Pairing food and wine for your Christmas day celebration
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Second chance
Cosmetologist, telemarketer told to settle differences out of court
TWO WOMEN who were arrested and charged for fighting in Sam Sharpe Square in October, got a second chance to settle things out of court when they were referred for a second time to mediation.
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Darliston market destroyed
Wayot for MoBay
Rekindling the flame
Village trounce Arlington
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