WORLD MOURNS POPE JOHN PAUL II - Death of an icon
Pope John Paul II, the Polish pontiff who led the Roman Catholic Church for more than a quarter century, died yesterday night in his Vatican apartment. He was 84.

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NATIONAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SAGA - The truth may never come out
THE CONTRACTOR-general and other groups called in to investigate irregularities involving millions of dollars at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) and allegations of corruption, could find the task arduous.

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Syringe found in juice carton
Pope leaves vacuum
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Low interest rates the key to 2005 budget
IT IS extremely important that interest rates continue to fall if the minister is to reach the balanced budget target this fiscal year.

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Gleaner releases financial results - $224 million surplus in pension scheme
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WI quicks rock SA
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): CAPITALISING ON a rare display of South African indiscipline that bore a tinge of arrogance, the West Indies trio of fast bowlers made the most of a severely shortened third day of the first Digicel Test yesterday...

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Young Jamaica off to flying start
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World mourns passing of Pope
POPE JOHN Paul, in the 27th year of his reign, the third-longest in the history of the papacy, has surrendered to the ravages of illness and died at the Vatican on yesterday. Elected in 1978 as the first non-Italian Pope in 455 years, John Paul's...

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GSAT six years later: Same song, different tune?
'Ganging up' on Portia?
Post-Easter tragedies
And there shall be rain!

LETTER OF THE DAY - Why the hype about condoms for carnival?
THE EDITOR, Sir: MANY ARGUE that the use of condoms will stem the spread of STDs especially the killer AIDS. Yet a report coming out of the Philippines indicates that despite an anti-condom campaign promoted by a Roman Catholic arm there...

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Ban visitors from prisons
Jamaica impressive, but ...
Church's 'anti-bling' stance long overdue

No mas for CD stores
AAH, YES. Carnival is here. The country's dancehall party venues gave way to the cymbal-clanging trumpet-blowing super-speed music of calypso and soca fans, as well as the euphoric, drunken revelry that often accompanies this music.

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Dancehall gives soca props
The Dragon to fade happily
Lima Calbio is all woman

Travelling places - PART I
FOR THE average person, travel photography means holiday photography. This can mean, to many of us, problems such as flight cancellation, not enough time, bad weather, children fighting in the back of the car, a bored partner yearning to get...

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Unpredictable, but obedient clay
Letters of misunderstanding

Lucien's feat - "I lost 138 pounds in two years"
LUCIEN WEE-TOM, 27-years-old and the assistant supermarket manager at the upscale Joong Supermarket in St. Catherine, is stopping customers in their tracks for more than one reason this year.

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First birthday party at 78 - and what a celebration it was!
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CORRUPTION & money-lust
IT MUST have been highly disconcerting for Prime Minister P.J. Patterson to have read the Don Anderson poll in last week's Sunday Gleaner that an astounding 91 per cent of Jamaicans believe that corruption has increased...

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Bipartisanship and the National Committee on Crime and Violence
How to die or not to die!
Achievement testing in the primary school system

NDTC thrills on Easter Sunday
MY DEARS, when the notion of an Easter Sunday morning performance by the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC) was first noised about, there were some who thought the idea quite absurd, as in their limited worlds, they never...

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What they wore to the House