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Oil deal sealed 
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH ITS oil bill approaching US$1 billion for this year and international petroleum prices hovering around US$65 per barrel, Jamaica yesterday sealed an agreement to purchase oil from Venezuela on concessionary terms.
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 'A demonic statement' - Local clergymen condemn call by US televangelist to assassinate Chavez
Underground dwelling - St Thomas community still partially submerged since 'Dennis'
EU sugar consultants to assist local industry
'Hire more education officers'
Scotland Yard to visit next week
Mark Thwaites gets bail extension, allowed to travel
'Talk is cheap' - How will education transformation be funded? - JTA head
PNP vice-presidential candidates back out
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News
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Senator Spencer backs Phillips 
PEOPLE'S NATIONAL Party (PNP) caretaker for North East St. Elizabeth, Senator Kern Spencer, has defended the Government's crime-fighting strategies. Senator Spencer, who is also Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of National Security...
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Atlanta J'can Association gets the city's highest award
Tourism plan for Hellshire Beach
More Smart Card locations open
Group calls for Gov't to restart recycling project
Trafficking of Japanese migrants in Black River
Jamaicans abroad donate to police scholarship programme
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Business
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Blue Power revolution - Dhiru Tanna masters Jamaica's soap challenge 
THINK OF the Jamaican mass market manufacturer which easily undercuts its foreign rivals with a good product offered at a great price. A small company located in downtown Kingston does that. Dr. Dhiru Tanna structured Blue Power Limited...
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Companies: Treat training as investment
Courts (Jamaica) sale could take a while
LOJ gets big bucks from Winchester
Stuff happens, and guess who ends up paying for it?
Stand by your stocks, JMMB managing director urges
Ja tops region in certified facilitators
CCMB targets high net worth individuals
WEEK ON THE WEB - Where can you register a domain name?
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Sport
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King heads Win World Cup Committee 
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC: WEST INDIES head coach Bennett King has been appointed chairman of the West Indies Cricket Board's Win World Cup Committee, that also includes cricketing legend Sir Garfield Sobers and batting star Brian Lara.
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Free flow for WI players
Digicel voices 'concerns'
Shelton poised to join Burnley
Boyz tackle Guatemala in friendly
Foster-Hylton and Thomas shine in Austria
Riddim Girls face Guatemala
Upsets galore at Wata Amateur Champs
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Commentary
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The leptospirosis threat
THE URGENCY of the situation which prompted the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA) to issue a warning last week about the possible further spread of leptospirosis seems to have escaped public health authorities.
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Exporting Jamaica
Unequal before the law
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Letters
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LETTER OF THE DAY - Tourism needs priority support
THE EDITOR, Sir: I LISTENED to the 'Breakfast Club' on August 11, and I was amazed that the panel took so long to accept Butch Stewart's point that Jamaica's tourism business was a vital export, major foreign exchange earner...
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SLB and the brain drain
Where is the female support?
A fitting award for Fitz-Henley
Injustice to students
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Entertainment
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Super Jam semi-inclusive 
PULSE'S 25th anniversary weekend concluded with its latest instalment of Super Jam on Sunday. The event boasted performances from Beenie Man, Elephant Man, Voice Mail, Tami Chynn, and Jamaican rock band Downstairs.
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'Music is ...' beautiful
Magic in a pair of 'Pants'
Bebe leading the way
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Profiles in Medicine
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Ovarian cancer - Tummy on the rise 
OVARIAN CANCER symptoms are often vague, usually nothing as dramatic as pain or excessive bleeding that would send a woman running for medical attention. It is perhaps because of the vagueness of the symptoms...
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Marriages without sex
Afraid of lizards
Summer care for the elderly
My job provides no activity
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