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LIVING LARGE? $21m in travel over four years
WITH A roll of pricy New York hotels, thousands of U.S. dollars in entertainment money, fuel costs for travelling on a private aircraft, personal butlers, assistants and advisers, P.J. Patterson has managed to rack up a bill of more than $21 million...
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Solid waste shake-up
New body to monitor solid waste contracts
Denbigh show rolls on despite rain
PJ Patterson's collapsing legacy
Portmore toll road controversy - Residents vow to fight on
Lessons for Air Jamaica?
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News
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Solid waste saga - Who is Courtney Rose?
AN UNSETTLING stench still hovers over the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NWSMA) in the wake of recent scathing reports delivered by the Auditor General and Contractor General to Parliament which detailed startling...
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Billion-dollar breaches
Police kill four in Portmore
Police 47-hour sick-out
New British High Commissioner Jamaica: high point of career
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Business
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'The stock market will come back'
THIS IS the message from Vernon James, senior manager, stock brokerage division of Dehring Bunting & Golding (DB&G).
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Clearing the Air J air
JCC/USAID launch new trade series
This week in Europe - Looming threat of Dominican Republic
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Sport
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Devastated! Star sprinter gutted having to sit out 100m
WORLD 100-METRE record holder Asafa Powell said he was "devastated" when he had to withdraw from his pet event at the World Athletics Championships which start on Saturday in the Finnish capital, Helsinki.
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More medals for Jamaica
Explosive Peak blasts way to RJR Classic
England make sun set on Jamaica's 'Girls'
Manchester, St Catherine start in superb style
Tony Burrowes Junior Hockey programme winds down
Commentary - Clive Lloyd and the vice presidency
Thrilling victory for Sri Lanka over India
'We won't stop the drive'
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Commentary
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Editorial - Leave the NHT funds alone
JAMAICAN GOVERNMENTS do not have a good track record of keeping their word in areas of financial commitments. Time and again, appeals are made to public goodwill to contribute to special funds for a special cause, only for the public to see the money...
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Who should pay? Lobby for state financing of political parties gathers momentum
Petty bourgeois intellectualism
Bearing the consequences
Time to cry 'cree'?
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Letters
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Letter of the day - Corruption is corruption
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE NSWMA scandal reached its pinnacle when the former executive chairman told us all to 'shut our damned mouths'. It was at this stage that I really started to take notice.
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Is there a phone policy?
Hold them responsible!
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Entertainment
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Red Flag
WHILE THE legal clamps seem to be tightening slightly on the slippery monster of piracy, at least a few artistes seem to be changing their views on the 'copycat' practice.
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Seen to be heard
And the gospel finalists are ...
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Arts &Leisure
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The summit of achievement - The JCDC National Visual Arts Exhibition 2005
AS THE number of entrants increase each year, members of various groups including schools and photo clubs across the island have performed very well in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) National Visual Arts Competition.
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Always starting over
Book review - Culturally relevant, short on magic
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Outlook
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Helene Coley-Nicholson: Quiet achiever
HELENE COLEY-NICHOLSON, in a simple black dress characteristic of women in her profession, sports neat locks, is a study in contradictions. Restrained gestures and a voice, which is never strident in tone, is not the image of the typical...
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Furnishing faith- Hank and Bobbie on a mission
Marriage: Who gets the better deal?
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In Focus
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BACKWARDNESS! Portmore, toll road and the lawsuit
The following article was written by the Current Affairs Committee, The Law Academy.
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Slavery and the next emancipation
Corruption and press freedom
If I were Prime Minister
Pandora's box is blown open
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Social
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Kingston welcomes Jeremy Cresswell
ON THURSDAY evening the lawns of Trafalgar House on the compound of the British High Commission buzzed with laughter and light-hearted conversation as diplomats, ambassadors, and some of the pillars of Jamaican society, gathered...
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An affair with wines
Adios, Ambassador Jover!
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