Murders plunge - Homicides drop 23% in January
NEWS THAT murders plummeted nearly 23 per cent in January, compared to the same period in 2005, has bolstered the police force's confidence in light of plans announced yesterday to reduce the homicide rate by five per cent in 2006.

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Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) trade row power kicks in
Soapberry sewerage project begins
Cops quiz Welsh over Golden Spring murder

Will the target be met? - Uncertainty lingers as cane, worker shortage plague production at sugar factories
WITH JUST a few weeks into the new sugar crop, the shortage of cane at some factories and poor infrastructure could place stress on the island's efforts to meet the production target for this year's crop.

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Three strikes and he won - Dexter Anderson, Trelawny
Winning with confidence - Janielle Richards, St. Ann
Following in her brother's footsteps - Jody-Ann Allen, St. Elizabeth
Young journalist - Khandae Wright, Kingston
Facelift under way at Holland Bamboo
CORETTA SCOTT KING: 1927 - 2006 - A woman of grace, dignity

Women taking over management - JEF
CHARLES CLAYTON, research and co-operation manager at the Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF) predicts that in the next ten years, there will be more female than male managers in the labour force.

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Supreme Ventures gets ready to roll
The economics of crowd control
Youth opportunity in tourism
Mainland to grow in 2006
Single Market pillars need support
FirstCaribbean gets nod to boost capitalisation
Bauxite land opened up for housing
RBTT sees good growth ahead
Armstrong's 'Seven Laws of Success'

HAYNES QUITS - National coach resigns after team's dismal showing in Carib Beer Series
ROBERT HAYNES has tendered his resignation as head coach of Jamaica's senior cricket team, following the team's dismal performance this season. Brian Breese, chief operations officer at the Jamaica Cricket Association, confirmed Haynes' resignation...

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FROM THE BOUNDARY - A season to forget from start to finish
Arnett eager to test Harbour View's mettle
Holy Family retain Primary schools title
Rigmarole to atone
Draw pits champions Portmore against Village
Exciting Milo Relays loom
Powell's spike rakes in huge dough
Big bucks for schools competition

Sleepwalking to disaster
IN A little over two weeks time the European Commission will recommend the amount that it will make available to support the restructuring of the ACP sugar sector in all 18 sugar protocol nations. Last November the European Commission's Trade...

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Rebuilding our inner cities
Unity needed on key issues
Life after sugar

LETTER OF THE DAY - William Foster - Doctor of EVERY Year!
THE EDITOR, Sir: IN JANUARY 2005, I visited the UHWI for an appointment with the Cardiac Unit as I was experiencing cardiac-related problems. I was diagnosed with rheumatic fever as a child.

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Future of the Middle East
End corporal punishment
Excellent obituary

Purple Love keeps Three Miles 'Grooving'
NORMALLY, NOBODY waits on anything much in Three Miles, at Portia Simpson Miller Square, in the midnight hour. A few taxis congregate at the Texaco gas station and the sound of the traffic signals changing is audible as a few stragglers.

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Syriana - A true picture of life
'Last Holiday'... a few weeks of fun
AND THE NOMINEES ARE...

CHINESE MEDICINE comes to town
BUSINESSWOMAN GLORIA PALOMINO once went to visit her children in Hawaii with only one of her arms working properly. She used to play a lot of tennis and developed 'tennis elbow'. She was not interested in the steroids, which her doctor recommended...

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The problem with 'DIETS'
Alcohol and sex
Addicted to the INTERNET

UNITED STATES: Coretta Scott King dies
ATLANTA (Reuters): CORETTA SCOTT King, who surged to the front of the fight for racial equality in America after her husband Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, died at age 78, friends and family said yesterday.

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