Hall takes office - New Governor-General embraces youth - Commits to building social capital
PROFESSOR KENNETH Hall, former Pro-Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona, was last night installed as the fifth Governor-General of Jamaica, during a lavish ceremony held at King's House...

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Sir Howard says goodbye
No same sex unions says Government of Jamaica
New hope for Glenhope
Gomes objects to Bank of Jamaica blackout

Schools will close for Cricket World Cup - 5 days for schools, 7 days for vehicular traffic - JUTC to alter bus routes
SCHOOLS WITHIN close proximity to Sabina Park are to be closed for five non-consecutive days while vehicular traffic along sections of South Camp Road will be impeded for seven non-consecutive days during the staging of the Cricket World Cup...

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Big discovery in Stony Gut
Cuban revolution, in lightbulbs
Call for secretariat for access to info tribunal
Cop loses appeal, to serve seven year sentence
Port Antonio gets Valentine's present
Derelict notice served for two Montego Bay buildings
The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) has new plans for Hellshire enviro project
Model missing

Immediate economic prospects good - Bank of Jamaica (BoJ)
BANK OF Jamaica (BoJ) governor Derick Latibeaudiere says the central bank is expecting the economy to show improvement in the first three months of this year. The bank is expecting that the positive developments observed in the December quarter...

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Pension seminar today
Hardware & Lumber profits dip
Sandals Whitehouse reduces prices to attract guests

West Indies resting Lara for World Cup - 'We can't push him too hard' - Shiv
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (CMC): IN THE wake of comments from Sir Vivian Richards questioning the selectors' decision not to consider Brian Lara for the first half of the New Zealand tour, West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul has come out in defence...

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Big trio register knockout wins
Local Organising Committee (LOC) wants Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 training area shifted to Trelawny
Tivoli pound out huge win
Granville coast into end-of-round final
Campbell to officiate at Commonwealth Games
Campbell to run 200m
Jamaica to meet Guatemala in crucial play-off
ICC executives batting for Twenty20 World Champs

Straining at gnats
THE NATIONAL Church Alliance and the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship have let fly a volley of concerns over what they see as inadequacies or dangers in the proposed Charter of Rights regarding the right to propagate religious - specifically Christian...

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A joint message from Spain and Turkey
The next President Clinton?
Building relationships

LETTER OF THE DAY - 'NW was no street brawler'
THE EDITOR, Sir: IN THE Sunday Gleaner of February 5 your columnist Orville Taylor has Norman Manley engaged in a knock-down fist fight with H.C. Buchanan and Stanley Vernon. This story, interesting but not entirely correct, should be clarified by the aut

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Christians and laws
Jamaica's future
School closure, wrong move
Kingston - A symbol of our nation

A man for all seasons
DOES BEING a politician who is a disc jock/radio host and a teacher sound odd? Winston Barnes has a passion for all three. If you remember the days when JBC existed and there were only two radio companies...

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Major changes for BET Jazz
Carla Campbell graces Sports Illustrated pages
Mariah blames her dress

New boost for sugar forecast under Brazil/Jamaica partnership - ambassador
WESTERN BUREAU: HIS EXCELLENCY Cezar Amaral, the Brazilian Ambassador to Jamaica, is predicting that the Jamaican economy will derive significant benefits from the use of Brazilian expertise and technology...

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Colombian competition causes reduced thyme sales
Agriculture ministry seeks to boost local sheep production
Flavour extraction plant for 'St Bess'

A celebration of food in Florida
IT WAS Gari Ferguson of Rib Kage in Kingston who excitedly spoke to me about the South Beach Food & Wine Festival. That was 2005, after he returned from assisting Cindy Hutson at her booth at the Grand Tasting Village.

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The Bahamian way
THE BLACK IN FOODS - Peas and beans

HAITI: UN police ordered to recover election materials
(AP): U.N. POLICE were ordered yesterday to recover election materials, including numbered bags apparently used to carry results, from a garbage dump near the Haitian capital amid charges that last week's presidential elections were marred by fraud.

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UNITED STATES: Report says US govt unprepared for Katrina

GPS/Galileo Project: Advancing vehicle tracking and navigation
JAMES BOND, a well-known fictional secret agent, uses a gadget that looks like a pen to track the movements of terrorists by placing the pen in their car. He then tracks them on a small hand-held tracking device and finds out that they are heading...

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