GREAT EXPECTATIONS! - 88,000 workers await end of MoU
COME MARCH, some 88,000 public sector workers will seek a major salary hike after holding strain for two years under the Public Sector Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

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As world celebrates 2006 ...
Thumbs up for top cop!
Teachers on the mark!
New Prime Minister within the next two months
Jamaica Tourist Board efforts boost stop-overs
Jamaica Teacher's Association president touts special fund for education
A bittersweet agreement

Prime Minister's last New Year's message: Work hard, look to God
OUTGOING PRIME Minister P.J. Patterson is urging Jamaicans to identify issues that can unite us all in 2006. In his New Year's message, the Prime Minister said citizens should carefully consider the effects of their action on their families...

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Sir Howard, Golding urge serious action on crime in 2006
St Andrew south: a community at war
DCP Shields tours war-torn areas
The mother of all verdicts

Six BIG stock picks for 2006
LOCAL EQUITY prices receded in 2005 against the backdrop of challenging economic conditions largely arising out of a twin shock from spiralling oil prices and two hurricanes.

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CABLE AND WIRELESS (JAMAICA) LIMITED
PAN-JAMAICAN INVESTMENTS
DEHRING BUNTING AND GOLDING
NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK
JAMAICA PRODUCERS GROUP
CARRERAS GROUP LIMITED
Achieving financial independence for 2006

Heavyweights clash today
THERE IS no game bigger than the Waterhouse/Harbour View clash in today's 20th set of matches in the Wray and Nephew National Premier League. It features the top two teams in the second round of the competition and this game could also be a warm-up...

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FROM THE BOUNDARY - A New Year's wish for West Indies cricket
Haber clinches title
Federer ruled 2005
Man U, Chelsea buoyed by wins

New year - new challenges
ONCE AGAIN the calendar changes and we face a new year with all its uncertainties. It has become the custom to speak of our way of life in terms of 'crisis', forgetting the definition fashioned by the Chinese, it is said, who define the word...

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Let women keep the lamps
Happy New Year my foot!
Bhutooism: Our new ideology
New Year, old rules?

Reggae 'Xplodes' in Ocho Rios, Jamaica
THE HISTORY of Jamaica's music, covering reggae, ska, rocksteady, dub and dancehall, is preserved in the Reggae Xplosion Museum at Island Village, Ocho Rios, St. Ann. On entry, there is a strong sense of nostalgia...

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The theatrical year that was
Violence-free 2006 - Artistes wish for peace

Art and society
D R. EDDIE Chambers is curator of the exhibition Curator's Eye II, Identity and History: Personal and Social Narratives in Art. The exhibition is currently on show at the National Gallery. Here he discusses his work with Dr. Jonathan Greenland...

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Hot Spot - A healthy dose of laughter
The view from the edge
Artie writes to Santa Claus

What's right with Jamaica
IT'S A new year. Why start it by handicapping ourselves with all the negatives, what-might-have-beens and by reciting the litany of things which are truly wrong about Jamaica? What harm would be done by reflecting on some positives?

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Every woman's best Christmas present
Freedom, single market and Caribbean civilisation
Parliamentary politics and the PNP race

Absolutely Pulse-ating
My dears, the night belonged to celebs, the buffed and the un-buffed, the cosmetically enhanced and the absolutely fabulous. And pumpkins little wonder here as it was one sin-sational event!

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Kellonds' Christmas soiree
Manpower fetes friends

Where's the 911? Who cares?
LET'S BE clear. The rear of the car is no place for an engine. I know there are a few Porsche 911 moonies now snapping off their rubber gloves and leaping to their keyboards to fire off a strongly worded dissent - Ginger!

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Hold the death knell...- New SUV models are rolling out everywhere
What all drivers should do in 2006

'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.