UNDER FIRE - Spn Town Cops Ambushed, Station Torched, Schools & Businesses Closed, Roads Blocked
MAYHEM GRIPPED Spanish Town, St. Catherine, in its deadly embrace yesterday as angry protests and running gun battles between armed thugs and the police forced the lockdown of most schools, shuttered businesses in the area...

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PNP linked to 'Bulbie'
Let's end rule of criminals!
Tight security as Kraal case opens
Mountain View stages vigil for peace
Kingston selects top speller, St. Catherine finals moves to Kingston
Golding wants policy for dual directorship
Donna Scott-Motley named as PNP Senator

A dollar for sugar
THE LONG Pond and Bernard Lodge sugar factories are up for sale for $1 each, but Prime Minister P.J. Patterson yesterday warned that money, and not 'sweet talk', would influence their divestment.

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Nominees for Gleaner Honour Awards 2005
Nominees for Gleaner Honour Awards 2005
Body discovered on Palisadoes road
Grey columns of smoke
Bankruptcy of the will fuels crime

RBTT announces profits hike
MR. J. July, group chairman of RBTT Financial Holdings Limited, is reporting pre-tax earnings of US $88 million and profit attributable to shareholders of US $72 million for the six-month period ended September 30, 2005.

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B'dos interest rates boosted

New format for Carib Beer series - JCA president very disappointed with change
THE FORMAT for the 2005-2006 Carib Beer cricket regional first-class league championship has been changed. Countries down to participate in the upcoming season will only play each other once, after which the top four teams on points will battle...

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Brooks' red card hurt Reno
Harbour View no one-man band - Says coach as NPL front-runners qualify for End-of-Round Final
King scores in Watford win
New dress code don't suit some of the NBA stars - ... but retired players back change
FROM THE BOUNDARY - What's all the fuss about?
Richer Red Stripe Superstakes

The PM's visa bluff
THE GOVERNMENT of the Cayman Islands has not sugar-coated the imposition of visa requirement with diplomatic niceties. The visa requirement for Jamaicans has been introduced as a means of screening out undesirables.

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Taking time to remember a great American
Red, white and BOO!
Sleeping dogs and fleas

LETTER OF THE DAY - Celebration of tragedy and the meaning of life
THE EDITOR, Sir: I WENT to a remembrance service for the two Brothers of the Poor who were shot and killed last Thursday night. They were cut down with a single bullet to the head while washing dishes.

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Kudos to Kingfish
Dangerous falls in Ocho Rios roads

Tackling dancehall and identity at UTech
THIS SEMESTER'S instalment of Warner's corner at the University of Technology on Thursday evening saw Donna Hope, Tanya Stephens and Brian Schmidt discussing the topic 'Reggae Music: It's Role in Developing a Jamaican Identity'.

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Armond, McDonald 'Warm and Easy' at Flames
Roots, rock reggae from St Kitts
JLo's 1st ex drops lawsuit

Freestay Caribbean Programme launched
THE OFFICIAL press launch of the Freestay Caribbean Programme took place at the Hilton Kingston in September, under the distinguished patronage of Tourism and Industry Minister Aloun Assamba.

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Maritime body committed to ISO-quality standards

Centre of hope
THE INTERIOR walls of the Myrtle Ferguson Skills Training Centre, off Hagley Park Road in St. Andrew, are filled with past students' flyers. The flyers speak to graduates' preferences in food, colour, and ambition.

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A past student shares her story... Sophia Sterling, proud past student of Ferguson Centre
A past student shares her story - Bridgette Roberts launches Crystal's Hair and Nails
'The Acropolis: An entertainment experience'

Carib urged to take quick action against Avian Flu
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): THE CARIBBEAN is being urged to take immediate action to ensure its national response mechanisms are fully in place to ward off the social and economic effects of invasive pests and diseases.

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More division in UNC

Parks honoured at US Capitol
WASHINGTON (AP): MORE THAN 30,000 Americans streamed through the U.S. Capitol Rotunda to pay tribute yesterday to Rosa Parks, filing by her casket in hushed awe of the woman whose defiant act on a city bus inspired the modern civil rights movement.

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Coalition plans in turmoil
UN unanimously adopts resolution on Syria cooperation
Donors fear giving aid to Latin America
Prime minister faces further woes
'Wilma' dampens spirit of Halloween
Doors open to 300,000 immigrants per annum
Bush picks Alito for Supreme Court
Test of 'Britishness' for UK citizen hopefuls

'HAIR' IS THE HAT

DARAIN HOUSEN HAS not taken off his hat for the last 20 years. He bathes, he sleeps and does everything possible in it. It is a perfect fit.