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published: Sunday | February 12, 2006
Lead Stories


Delegates' roll call
PEOPLE'S NATIONAL Party (PNP) insiders say the contest to succeed P.J. Patterson as party president and Prime Minister has come down to a two-man affair. But the competition among the two ­ Portia Simpson Miller and Dr. Peter Phillips...

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Mayor McKenzie is livid! - Lashes organisers of World Cup Cricket 'We will not mortgage the city to private individuals!'
'Major financial windfall'
Know your tickets
Big benefits for business
Sponsors only may display at Sabina
Church dumbfounded
J'can judge takes the bench in Florida
Changing of the guards - Could the PNP elect a president who is not Prime Minister?

News


Not just rooms - Cricket fans to be wined, dined and wooed
LOCAL HOTELIERS and other tourism interests are planning to roll out more than just warm beds to some 20,000 cricket fans expected to share the island with Jamaica's regular crop of tourists during the ICC Cricket World Cup West...

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'Blood Lane' - Guns, drugs, deportees and a cry for help
Booted from the lands of opportunity... - Deportees a criminal link
Florida judge calls for tougher crime fight in Ja
JLP councillor threatens legal action against his party
It's 'Christmas' for PNP delegates
Omar: No rum bar - Mrs Davies takes 'prosperity' to the street
Book ship makes fifth visit to Kgn Harbour

Business


Little appetite for Supreme Ventures' IPO
THE NUMBERS for the Supreme Ventures (SVL) initial public offering (IPO) are finally in and they are less than encouraging: The public took up less than 40 per cent of the shares.

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Facey Commodity eyes European market
Government moves to sell Don Crawford's properties
2005: The year the stock market fizzled out
'Tax collection on target'
Are entrepreneurs born or made?
TALKING TAX - Tax relief for farmers
Capital & Credit provides scholarships for youth

Sport


Sinclair breaks national 800 metres record
KENIA SINCLAIR broke the national 800 metre record, while Veronica Campbell achieved a world-leading and personal best at Friday night's Tyson Invitational meet held at the Randal Tyson Track Complex in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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Young WI crash out
That's a good move, president Gordon!
Jamaica's hopes dashed again
Mona clinch Alberga Cup
Hedrick shines for US first day
Futz romps Lester Davidson Mem Cup
Hot action in western Jamaica today
Records galore at Western Relays
Middlesbrough stun Chelsea
Waterhouse, Boys' Town ready for clash
National coach pleased with athletes' performances

Commentary


The deportee crime link
THE CHALLENGE to our society of what to do with the number of persons deported to Jamaica each year from the United States, Canada and Britain remains, notwithstanding reports of a decline in the numbers. While a definitive link has not been...

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PUBLIC AFFAIRS - A nation ADRIFT
...The people are PJ's legacy
Patterson's legacy
The rule of law
Performance versus PR

Letters


LETTER OF THE DAY - Pyrrhic victory
THE EDITOR, Sir: OUR COUNTRY Jamaica has so many problems, the latest being that of Spanish Town, and it is really a mind-boggling experience to realise that the persons who are aspiring to lead our country are adding to our problems.

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The missing link in education

Entertainment


Theatre lip service gives serious
THEATRE'S JOB, depending on who you ask, is to reflect the world. To hold up a mirror to the society, whether to send back a pimple-besmirched visage or a smooth-faced belle. In a sense, theatre, like all the other arts, can act as the...

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Free concert ends JCDC's Marley celebrations
Thomas Glave, a man in between
Alerta nurtures reggae in Colombia
Dancehall's flair fades
Selectors 'read' audiences

Arts &Leisure


Aïda of Nubia - A resounding success
DESPITE ITS many theatrical awards, Jamaica Junior Theatre was surely ambitious in staging Aïda of Nubia, a musical adaptation of the story first penned over a century ago by the French Egyptologist, Mariette Bay, and used for the famous...

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Respect: 'In Praise of Differences' - Dancing for the hearing impaired and deaf
Achromatic reds
'Class of '73' starts rural tour
The healing of Kilancholly

Outlook


A First Family reflects
THEIR EXCELLENCIES Sir Howard Felix Hanlan Cooke and Lady Cooke will be moving house this month, leaving behind the palatial rooms of King's House for their own home.

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'Til death do us part ...
I am Mr Love
Kiss me and shine ... My sweet Valentine
A nanny you can trust

In Focus


Facing the finish line
AS THE four contenders for the presidency of the People's National Party (PNP) enter the home stretch, there are unmistakable indicators as to where they will be at the finish line. It has been a long and strenuous campaign which has taxed to the...

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Mother - the new leader
Political leadership - Pt III - The Prime Minister as CEO
Reinventing the Governor-General
Muslims, Christians and free speech
Empowering the poor

Social


Polo, polo, polo!
PLAYERS CAME from all over the globe, as far as Zimbabwe, Kenya and Scotland, to participate in the ICWI International Polo Tournament, held last Sunday at the Caymanas Estate.

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A new breed of entrepreneurs
FAREWELL FUND-RAISER

Portia Wins the PNP Presidential Race
Final Results
Portia Simpson-Miller Peter Phillips Omar Davis Karl Blythe
1775 1538 283 204

News

It,s Portia! PNP's First Female President

Portia Simpson-Miller New President of the PNP

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