J'can workers safe - 350 overseas hotel employees escape 'Katrina'
WHILE UNABLE to confirm the deaths of any Jamaicans, Government yesterday disclosed that about 350 overseas hotel workers in Mississippi, United States, were relocated to shelters as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
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Stories Gov't to block human traffickers
Hurricane's wrath still being felt - Rescuers bypass the dead to reach the living
Citizens' cooperation could aid crime-fighting
CSEC WHIZ-KIDS - 'God was by my side'
CSEC WHIZ-KIDS - Success despite the odds
Street light war looms
'Goody-goody' married women get AIDS too
Power hike rollback not in Gov't hands
THE OFFICE of Utilities Regulations (OUR) has said that the cries of the protesting public for a rollback of the rate increases recently granted to the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), cannot be met without the Government attracting a lawsuit.
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Stories Suspects in cops' murder identified
Tanker driver wage talks this week
De la Vega gets free services
'Hard work, 4-H Club boosted my career'
Island Village goes local
THE ISLAND Village shopping and entertainment complex should be minting money for its owners. It is not. Christopher Blackwell, chairman of Ocho Rios Beach Resorts Limited, the majority shareholder for Island Village, told Wednesday Business...
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Stories Career pathway - Initiative stopper?
Dyoll selling coffee operations
What are people searching for?
Oil bill weighing heavily on Jamaica
New deputy CFO at GraceKennedy financial services
Scotiabank to offer business customers Internet service
Portmore to play on despite row
DESPITE A rift between the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) and league winners Portmore United FC over prize money owing and a proposed sponsorship deal gone bad, Wayne Sinclair, chairman of Portmore United, said his team will be participating...
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Stories 'I am very happy - nothing comes easy'
Special day for the NPL champions
Johnson to meet Jones in title elimination
Rusea's, Cornwall face off
Franklyn out to bounce back
Take Herecomesfudgie
Why the foot dragging on teachers?
SOME FOUR years ago, the National Council on Education (NCE) prepared recommendations for the then Minister of Education which, inter alia, called for the licensing of teachers.
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Stories Leadership breeding poverty
Nicodemus rate increase
LETTER OF THE DAY - The case for mandatory AIDS testing
THE EDITOR, Sir: HIV/AIDS IS arguably the leading public health issue facing Jamaica today which, if left unchecked, could pose far-reaching impacts on the development of the country. With an estimated 24,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in Jamaica...
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Stories Saving the Palisadoes
Making student loans affordable
Putting up a resistance
The dum b-Dukes of 'Hazzards'
WHEN STEPPING into the theatre to see The Dukes of Hazzard it is probably wise to bear in mind that it was once a television show. Wiser still would be to bear in mind the knowledge that it features Johnny Knoxville, Sean William Scott..
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Stories Piracy hampering Ja's economic development
'The Transporter 2': Action, intrigue, suspense!
PASSIVE WOMEN, ACTIVE MEN - Sex, Gender and HIV/AIDS
WADING THROUGH heaps and heaps of information on HIV/AIDS, this time with the theme of this afternoon's Gleaner Public Editors' Forum (Passive Women, Active Men: Sex, Gender & HIV/AIDS) on my mind, some important bits of information...
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Stories AIDS is no longer a death sentence
Charting a path to wellness!
Back-to-school nutrition
Spiritual and occupational wellness