Floods again! Portland Cottage braces for the worst
RESIDENTS OF flood-prone Portland Cottage in south-east Clarendon, many of whom are yet to recover from the devastating blows of Hurricane Ivan last September, received another trouncing from unrelenting rainfall up to yesterday.

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Rampage! Car thieves wreak havoc
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Gleaner Editors' Forum - Police concerned ...
The following is an excerpt from The Gleaner Editors' Forum held recently at the newspaper's North Street headquarters. The theme was 'Current Police Challenges'.

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Roving Caregiver Programme a success
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Writing a successful business plan
TIME AND again, bank managers lament the reluctance of entrepreneurs to create business plans to support their loan applications and the validity of their ideas.

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Residential developments booming in Liguanea
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Gordon House steps into the information age
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Miracle Man wins St Leger
IN AN epic duel from the half mile to the last furlong, the 1-2 favourite MIRACLE MAN outfinished his arch rival AD INFINITUM to win the 79th running of the Jamaica St. Leger over 2000 metres at Caymanas Park yesterday.

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JDF take lead in Super Cup semi-final
DaCosta Cup gets a boost
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Venus victorious in titanic clash for crown
Thomas finishes third in Paris track meet
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Francis sets sights on World Championships

Female criminality - Let's nip it in the bud!
TODAY'S FRONT-PAGE story, which describes the well-calculated hustle of one female con artist, points to what seems to be a new trend of cerebral criminality now on the rise in Jamaica.

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Latin America's populist tide
Free up ganja
Misplaced trust and rude awakenings!
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Letter of the day - Slaughter of the innocents
THE EDITOR, Sir: Some weeks ago, you were gracious enough to publish a letter I wrote to you pointing out the potential danger to babies of having their diapers stolen from them at gunpoint.

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Unruly drivers
More faith-based agencies needed
True philanthropists
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All 'Wright' with Raquel
RAQUEL WRIGHT is not just living her dream. ShEis on a roll. After winning the Miss Jamaica Universe 2005 pageant, 23 year-old Raquel represented Jamaica at the international pageant in Bangkok, Thailand on May 31.

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Boys take to dance
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Cecil Baugh - The moulding of a master
WHERE DOES the life of a master potter begin? Is he born with the talent, or is it moulded into him? Pottery master the Honourable Cecil Archibald Baugh, O.J., really complicates the answer to these questions.

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Dancing with degrees
Talk and taste yu tongue

Inez Blake - Secretary to two National Heroes
INEZ BLAKE is a perfectionist. The secretary who in the 1970s was the first to pass the Certified Professional Secretary examination was, in the decade before this, employed to the island's two first national leaders.

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Turning adversity into victory
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The IMF's turnaround on Ja
THE JAMAICAN Government received a ringing endorsement of its macroeconomic programme last week from no less a significant global player than the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with which it has had a stormy and turbulent relationship in the past.

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Engaging the diaspora
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