PNP ahead - Poll says incoming PM boosts fifth-term chance
THE NATION'S desire to see what Portia Simpson Miller can do as the country's first female Prime Minister has provided an electoral boost for the governing People's National Party (PNP), according to a recent Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll.

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Meetings promise Esso, JGRA resolution
'Portia on right path'
Commissioner supports citizens' right to bear arms
Parliament allows death penalty for murders associated with burglary
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Windalco, NWU wage settlement could unravel
THE WAGE settlement hammered out last week by Prime Minister-designate Portia Simpson Miller between the National Workers' Union (NWU) and alumina mining company Windalco could unwind.

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No tax for pensioners, says Gov't
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Poverty, violence the main drivers of rape
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Diversifying your investment portfolio
IT IS always a good idea to diversify one's investment portfolio. And diversification can mean either investing across asset classes such as stocks, bonds, and real estate or investing in more than one geographical location. With a number of...

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GSB and NCB in credit card venture
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CCMB's profits break the billion-dollar mark for 2005
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Customer sues RBTT
The deadly sins of investing
Softbank snatches Vodafone's Japanese unit for US$15.5b

Girlz roll past B'dos
MELBOURNE, Australia: JAMAICA, THE 2002 bronze medallists, continued to show good early form in the netball competition at the XVIII Commonwealth Games with an overwhelming 69-30 victory over Barbados.

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Sutherland in blistering form at Carifta Trials
Meadhaven hold firm in KSAFA Super League
Elliott and Kentish find top form in Super Cup
Si Mi Trial impressive
Powell on track claims Francis
Indian at the double
Wins for Wolmer's, Old Harbour
Portmore, Waterhouse in keen encounter today
Hanover fields below standards - Downswell
Fleming's knock rocks the Windies
The 'silent gesture' that still lives on
A cricket match to remember - probably forever

Priorities for the new PM
IN LESS than two weeks Mrs Portia Simpson Miller will assume office as the country's new Prime Minister and we wish her all success in her new job. She will, of course, face some immediate challenges. She was elected on a populist platform, but the...

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Obesity in gov't on a starvation diet - Pt 1
Beware 'Endimites' and PhDs for hire
'Shifting' Leadership
The rebellion of the masses

LETTER OF THE DAY - Concert hall for the city
THE EDITOR, Sir: I HAVE read with great interest your editorial and the response of Mrs. Ruby Martin, OD, JP., vice-chairperson of The Ward Theatre Foundation, which was captioned in her Letter of The Day, "Ward Theatre a neglected treasure".

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Religious Hard Talk: A 'new-stance', not a nuisance
Home discipline missing

NO MAS! - Oxford Road venue to be sold
VERY SOON there will be no active large outdoor entertainment venue in the capital.

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St Mary gets a close-up

TIMELESS OBJECTIVITY - You can do almost anything with a standard 50mm lens
THE FIRST 35mm SLR camera I ever owned was a Kowa SE with a fixed 50mm lens, I had no choice of any other lenses. This was the camera that took me through art school in New York, and although it didn't have a through-the-lens light meter...

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Let's dance!
Shame and disgrace!
Guyanese wins Commonwealth Writers' Prize
A voyeuristic view of plantation society
'The Right to be Proud' of Jamaican heritage
J'can leads touring choir
GTECH Jamaica unveils education programme

Bishop Carmen Stewart ON A MISSION TO SERVE
SHE HAS been gracious all her life, so to say that Bishop Carmen Stewart ­ at age 81­ has aged gracefully would be quite inadequate.

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The Mordecais: family Celebrating
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Excellence personified

Dabdoub, disunity and doubts
THE JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) seems to be jinxed. Or the People's National Party (PNP) supremely blessed. Every time the JLP seems to be assuaging people's doubts about its capacity to unify itself, another row erupts. Just when everyone's attention...

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Coming to terms
Defining Portia: masculine and feminine leadership
Jamaica and the Atlantic slave trade - Pt I
Funding the Jamaican Economy Project

Ramchandani takes aim at Global Beauty Pageant
TODAY THE Morgan's Harbour Hotel will come alive with the elimination and sashing of the Miss Global International Beauty Pageant. Following on the heels of his successful staging of Ms. Commonwealth in 2004, Montego Bay businessman Lachu Ramchandani...

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Rocking the West
Janet Farrow marks 50!