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IT'S PORTIA! PNP'S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT 
PORTIA SIMPSON Miller yesterday emerged as the next president of the People's National Party (PNP) and, within weeks, will be crowned the first woman Prime Minister of Jamaica.
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 Crime, the economy and youth: Facing our priorities
Golding offers congratulations
'Things will be better' - Peter Phillips supporters give full backing to candidate
Waiting for the last laugh
Portia Simpson Miller - Heart, soul and guts
A long day at Jamaica College
Expectations from new PM
More is not a strategy
Security of Jamaican workforce raises concern
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Tight security!
A STRONG contingent of security personnel from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) enveloped Jamaica College (JC) and its environs along Hope Road for yesterday's staging of the People's National Party (PNP) presidential elections.
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PNP PRESIDENTS' CLUB
Giving the people what they want
Behind the murders - crime connections?
Two teachers perish in road accident
Jamaica Child Evangelism Fellowship celebrates 60 years
One person injured in Windalco explosion
Plane crashes in MoBay
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Timing the bull market 
NOTWITHSTANDING THE fact that the market rallied by just under one per cent for the week up to Thursday of last week, there has been predictable speculation even among financial professionals that the bear market has bottomed out...
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Large turnout for Money Expo 2006
Harmony Cove MoU signed with US company
Extra classes and conflict of interest
Private sector must play central role in development
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MVP team pushed at Relays 
WORLD 100 METRES record holder Asafa Powell had to work overtime last night for MVP to win the men's 4x100m relay at the 30th Gibson Relays at the National Stadium.
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Johnson wins all-Jamaican battle
Jacobs at the double against Manchester
Cordite obliges in CTL Claiming Series
Hillel retain swim title
Another tough task for Waterhouse
Arsenal go down 1-0 to Blackburn
Woeful Windies tumble again
Do-or-die for men's senior tennis team
Commentary - Cricket's minnows send a warning
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Editorial - Time to put Jamaica first
THE DELEGATES of the People's National Party (PNP) have spoken and finally a new party president has been chosen. We congratulate Portia Simpson Miller on having emerged victorious and now urge the new president, the rivals and all those persons...
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From Stonewall to Brokeback Mountain - A rising flood not easily dammed
A Charter of Wrongs? The best and worst of times for human rights
Why BoJ secrecy?
Losing the 'race'
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Letter of the day - Congrats, Wendy
THE EDITOR, Sir: I AM writing this letter on behalf of the many women who are, or probably were, in the current situation that not only Wendy might have been in but that I am also faced with.
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The legitimacy and authority of leadership
Commentary - The recent bauxite strike
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Flag in fashion 
IT IS highly unlikely that 'the sun shineth, the land is green and the people are strong and creative' is on the minds of those who wrap a towel designed like the Jamaican flag around their waists at the beach. Still, many are infatuated with the flag...
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Dancehal tries on techno
Cheryl Foggo clears fog on reading
A 'Gem' of a performer
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Looking back, looking ahead 
LOOKING TO improve your photography in 2006? Well, if last year was anything to judge our standards by, this year we should look forward to some exciting images from our photographers, both amateurs and professionals.
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Defending Fi Wi Sinting
'Fi Wi Sinting': Celebrating our artistic heritage
Book review - Lots of Sandals, little of 'Butch'
(Un)Employment puzzle analysis
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Michael Frater - Training for greatness 
AT 5:30 IN the morning when the heat of the sun is still a very distant memory, Michael Frater and his fellow sprinters are warming up in the dark preparing for their laps around the dew-kissed earth on the University of Technology track...
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Let's talk relationships - The leader in the home
DOCTOR'S ADVICE - My 'kinky' Mexicano
OUTLLOOK YOUTH - All-inclusive parties a growing phenomenon
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Unite the party 
CONGRATULATIONS TO the newly-elected President of the People's National Party. I wish the President the best, first in uniting the party and then in managing the Government.
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Missed opportunities in tourism
Living with regrets: The Iraq case
In defence of free speech
Looking at deportees (Part I) - 'They were no angels'
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MAGNIFICENT! 
ONE OF western Jamaica's premier fund-raising events, the Hanover Charities Sugar Cane Carnival 2006, was nothing short of magnificent.
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Realtors celebrate good times
T&T's High Commissioner set to return home
Double the fun!
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Moscow's roof collapse death toll climbs to 66 
Relatives carried the bodies of victims of a roof collapse at a Moscow market out of a morgue in wooden boxes yesterday to put them on flights home, while the discovery of more corpses in the rubble brought the death toll to 66.
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Sunni and Shi'ite clerics reach deal to ease tension
Opposition in Uganda disputes incumbent's win
US man charged with attempted murder after restaurant shooting
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