Ja shines in UK - Island bags three top world travel awards
LONDON, England: JAMAICA TOOK centre stage at the World Travel Awards in London yesterday. The island pocketed the coveted Caribbean Cruise Destination, Leading Tourist and Conventions Bureau and the region's Top Airline awards.

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Fire razes Azan's Supercentre
Keeping the elderly in the limelight
Kingfish nets some doubting Thomases
Ministry, JCF to discuss recruitment
Trelawny's Service gives plan thumbs up
Greenfield's future safe - PM
Community service sentence for principal
Merl Grove to launch four scholarships - In honour of crash victim

Crippled woman gets motorised wheelchair - Part of settlement in police shooting case
WESTERN BUREAU: ST. ELIZABETH businesswoman, Viola Barrett, who was awarded $17.6 million in damages against the Govern-ment, after she was shot in a taxicab by a policeman, and left crippled, has received a motorised wheelchair...

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Secondary schools to get laptops
Moving toward equality of the sexes - Bureau of Women's Affairs hosts workshops to form nat'l gender policy
Health Ministry under heavy criticism
Seventy-seven Sunset Strip
Lucea Mayor, Cauldwell councillor at loggerheads
Extensive discussions held at parish council meeting
St Mary drains still in need of repair
Binns lauded at PC meeting

THE MONDAY INTERVIEW: THE AMMARS - New era for retail kingpins
IN JAMAICA, the name Ammar is synonymous with fashionable clothing as well as dry goods. Like most businesses operated by descendants of Lebanese immigrants, Ammar's has grown into the most successful department store in the island.

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Ja to be HQ for pharmacists body

Bushrangers whack WI
MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC NOT EVEN weather conditions, sights, and sounds more in keeping with their homelands than the land Down Under could inspire the West Indies on a day that first saw them trail on first innings to the Victorian Bushrangers...

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Tivoli sink goal-shy Boys' Town
Valiant Girls fall against hot Kiwis
Beckford in Jamaica 20-man squad
This tie is far from over - Yorke
Waterhouse cool Arnett
Rivoli, Spring finish goalless
Bryan scorcher turns game for Village

The brain drain
BOTH THE World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have recently released studies indicating that Caribbean countries are among the hardest hit by what has come to be called the 'brain drain', the migration of skilled professionals.

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Time to take a stand for Jamaica
Reinventing the Jamaican pig
Grim reality of Pakistan quake

LETTER OF THE DAY - On highways and the weather
THE EDITOR, Sir: IN MY letter of September 17 last, I pointed out the danger of having no suitable alternative to entering the city of Kingston from the Spanish Town end outside of the Mandela Highway.

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Keep roving, Mr Lalah
Gov't's duty to control crime

'Chicken Little' scores big at the box office
LOS ANGELES (AP): CHICKEN LITTLE remained number one in the pecking order, taking in US$32 million in its second weekend to beat back a flock of new movies.

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50 Cent saddened by fatal shooting at movie theatre
'Kung Fu Hustle' big winner at Taiwan's Golden Horse film awards

Saint model appears on Oprah
SAINT INTERNATIONAL Model Jotasha Turnbull continues to make appearances including her latest on the Oprah Winfrey show for the House of Dereon - the new fashion line from music superstar Beyoncé Knowles.

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An angel in disguise - Sister Elin Gabriel - 40 years of Service to St. Joseph's Hospital
LAWS OF EVE - Revisiting aspects of the Property Rights Act (Rights of Spouses)
CHRISTMAS WARDROBE CHECKLIST - 'Real clothes for real people'
Birth & older women
FLAIR WEDDING
AFTER THE FUNERAL - A mother's path to healing

British troops to leave Iraq 2006
LONDON (AP): BRITISH TROOPS could leave Iraq by the end of 2006, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has predicted. In a television interview to be broadcast in Britain yesterday, Talabani said no Iraqis wanted foreign troops to remain...

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Unrest spreads beyond border
Tropical depression forms; nears Jamaica by weekend
Chavez to Fox: Don't mess with me

'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.