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Wider spy powers - House OKs wiretaps without court order
THE HOUSE of Representatives yesterday passed legislation allowing the police to modify warrants and effectively wiretap Jamaican citizens for up to seven days without an order from the Supreme Court.
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 Windalco-NWU stalemate
Budget cut by $900 million
Christians make Rights Charter submission
Rasta icon Mortimo Planno is dead
Electorial Advisory Committee (EAC) urges voters to get reverified
Vauxhall teachers protest violence
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Charlie Smith 'buries' corporal punishment - Schools commemorate Peace Day 
THERE WAS no body, no tears and no solemn How Great Thou Art, but Charlie Smith High School celebrated, yes, celebrated the 'funeral' of its system of corporal punishment yesterday. At the ceremony, which was dubbed the 'Burial of Violence'...
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Repair cost cut for North Street United Church
Raft captains to get increase
Bog Walk gorge closed
New regulations for persons travelling to, from the US
Epidural services now at May Pen Hospital
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Jamaica slips behind Dominican Republic in call centres 
JAMAICA HAS lost it position as the leading regional call centre hub of the Caribbean, says Philip Peters, chief executive officer of Miami-based research company Zagada Markets Inc. He said an interim survey done in 2005...
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Montego Bay Freezone office space needed now - Senator Sloley
Big companies do die
Frankson targets consumers
Authorities raid OLINT
Victims of 'the tek wey game': arise!
Labour mobility roadblocks ahead, says Devon Evans
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Windies looking to silence critics 
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (CMC): HEARTENED BY the arrival of their champion batsman and boosted by victory in the final match of the one-day series, the West Indies will be keen to put pressure on an unfamiliar New Zealand top order when the first match...
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Lara wants Shiv to step up scoring
Two more track stars to miss Commonwealth Games
Calabar, St Catherine clinch school crowns
Thieves rob MVP tent during Gibson Relays
Barcelona send Chelsea packing
Melbourne clip Highgate 3-2
No 'Jungle' honeymoon
GC Foster Classic on Saturday
FROM THE BOUNDARY - WI in with a chance against NZ
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The future of bananas
BANANAS ARE Jamaica's second most important crop after sugar. They earn some US$30 million per annum in foreign exchange and provide a direct income to some 20,000 farmers and others workers across the island. Many more are dependent on its fortunes.
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Strong leadership
Expanding our capacity to work in teams
Life after Hurricane Ivan
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LETTER OF THE DAY - Hear the children's cry
THE EDITOR, Sir: EVERYDAY THE story is the same. Our children are being murdered as they walk home from church or while they lie in their beds. This is the most frightening aspect of the crime that has beset our nation.
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Potential murderers
Curbing the 'Bulbie' portraits
Gas tax: Policy of desperation
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Limp family fare - 'Yours, Mine and Ours' 
YOURS, MINE and Ours is a remake and it feels like it. It doesn't merely feel like a remake of the 1968 film. It feels like a remake of every movie and/or television show about a big family that was ever made.
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'Crash' headlines Oscar Week, March 8-14
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The cow's milk debate - Maybe we need less testosterone 
THE POOR President of the National Consumer League, Carlton Stewart, seemed to have come in for some amount of thrashing from some parliamentarians recently. Mr. Stewart, no doubt taking his role to protect the interest of the consumers seriously...
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Cow's milk is big business (From a reader)
Test your self-control during Lent
The flight or fight of stress - Pt II
Services for mentally-ill persons
New skin patch for depression
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UNITED STATES: Women leaders still lag in business, politics - UN 
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters): DESPITE THE recent election of women heads of state in Chile, Liberia and Germany, women are making scant progress around the world in getting into leadership positions in business, government and academia...
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INDIA: Fifteen killed in holy city blasts
SOUTH AFRICA: New twist in Zuma's rape case
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