Saving schools - Churches want more influence in classroom
CLERGYMEN HAVE voiced their desire to reassert influence in schools to reduce widespread social decay as well as the escalation of violent crime. While discussing the issue of lawlessness, and the role the Church should play in tackling the problem...

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Pickersgill censure motion stalls
Long Pond begins production early
Lawyer and Chief Justice in legal row
Shooting survivors fighting to erase scars
Jamaica's Prime Minister in Barbados for Cuba Summit
Alleged gangsters slain - Men linked to Clansman gang
Three held for 'Bulbie' stash theft
Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) boss wants Flankers road repairs fast-tracked

Human rights jamboree for Emancipation Park in Jamaica
JAMAICA'S GROWING human rights community will observe International Human Rights Day on Saturday with an eight-hour jamboree at Emancipation Park. Joyce Hewitt of Woman Inc. and Nancy Anderson of the Independent Jamaican Council...

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Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) to broker street light agreement
Zekes' trial postponed
Lydford Park residents served notices
Peter Phillips wants regional regime against drug trade
Antiretroviral drugs contracts approved
330 students graduate from College of Agriculture Science and Education (CASE)
Man plunges to death over bridge in Portland, Jamaica
Food for the Poor to pay fines for prisoners

Crime clobbers Red Stripe sales
RED STRIPE Jamaica has seen a fall-off in the demand of its products on the local market because of the continuing crime and violence in the country, according to the chairman of the brewing company, Patrick Rousseau.

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Late financial reports bedevil stock market in Jamaica
Redundancy pay - big disincentive
Peter Lawson quits Dyoll
Digicel takes on new territories
Picture this business
Jamaica Employers Federation (JEF) touts youth employment
IGL on expansion drive

Jamaicans outclass Trinidad and Tobago side
THE ALL-Manning selection scored an easy 3-1 win over the Trinidad and Tobago All Schools team in the first leg of the Jamaica/Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Friendship Trophy at the Constant Spring Complex yesterday.

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Wolmer's scrape past St George's
'Lloydie's' vision
Jamaicans shine at US meets
FROM THE BOUNDARY - Jamaica in the lead - no thanks to batsmen
The Smoker to burn 'em

Churches, dons and the inner cities
PERHAPS THE church leaders who suggested at the Gleaner Editors' Forum this week that they might be able to wrest power from community dons by outfinancing them may want to rethink their position. Their desire to see depressed inner-city communities...

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Fat pension scandal
Where is the money?

LETTER OF THE DAY - More on health risks from cemeteries
THE EDITOR, Sir: REGARDING YOUR 'Letter of the Day' published on December 5, 2005 with the title 'Siting of cemetery seen as health risk', I would like to proffer the following as a matter of public interest...

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Music and the savage breast
FAME road party a nuisance
Security at University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI)
Dr Albert Forsythe, a pioneer of black aviation

Message in movement
'PHYSICAL LABRISH: Body, Sound, Power' admirably lived up to its name. It was a vibrant conversation in dance that celebrated the body and was (re)soundingly powerful in message. The show took place at the School of Dance last weekend...

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New Super Fashion Faces of the World
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The GLOBAL economy: Is it good for our health
WHEN I think of the term 'globalisation', I think of other concepts such as 'economic integration', 'trade liberalisation' and just generally, receding barriers - real or artificial - between states that will impact trade...

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Taking care of caregivers
Asthma and exercise
Drinking over the festive season
Sweetheart life at Christmas time
Billings Method - a natural approach to avoid pregnancy

Latortue steps down on Feb 7
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): HAITI'S INTERIM Prime Minister, Gerard Latortue, says he will resign from office on February 7 next year. But Latortue said he would continue to see after the country until the inauguration of a new elected leader.

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PM addresses walkout of Cabinet by senior minister
...Opposition Leader blasts gov't's fiscal measures
Ralph Gonsalves confident of victory
Vincentians vote today

Zuma on rape charge
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP): SOUTH AFRICA'S popular former deputy president, already facing corruption charges, was indicted for rape yesterday in a case that could destroy his chances of taking the helm of a country seen as a political and economic.

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Plane crash kills 116
Cameron is new Tory leader
Woman testifies that she was tortured
More big hurricanes next year
'Opposition campaign caused low turnout'

'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.