Toll road boycott - Portmore threatens Pickersgill to stop 'dodging'
THE PORTMORE Citizens' Advisory Council (PCAC) is threatening to boycott the Portmore leg of the Highway 2000 toll road because Robert Pickersgill, Minister of Transport and Works, has failed to convene a promised meeting with residents.

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Waterhouse hot spot trades in guns for paintbrushes
School for deaf gets triple treat
Charity begins at home for Portia
Spanish Town clean-up
Red Stripe rescues cops
Amnesty slams Jamaica's human rights record
Government of Jamaica phases out teaching-certificate programmes
Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort's case delayed
Golding unveils proposal on use of NIS funds today
Malvo rats on Muhammad

Jamaican creates history at Columbia University - First student to graduate with three degrees in one sitting
NEW YORK: JAMAICAN SALEEM Josephs rewrote the history book on academic excellence at the prestigious Columbia University in New York City, becoming the first student from that institution to graduate with three degrees in one sitting.

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Facelift for five Spanish Town inner-city communities
'Jamaican Government must prepare five-year-olds for primary education'
Council for World Mission assembly for Jamaica Grande
Vaz criticises Government of Jamaica for failing to repair stations in Portland
Child Development Agency (CDA) reaping early success
Trial set for man charged with murder of former JGRA head
Cops aim to neutralise gangs
19-year-old electrician acquitted of gun charges - Crown Counsel, Stephanie Jackson Haisley, conceded that there were discrepancies which the Crown could not support.
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One who lived her life well

No haven for Olint in St Kitts
OLINT CORPORATION, barred from currency trading in Jamaica, has registered as a company in St Kitts/Nevis but has no licence to conduct financial services operation in that east Caribbean country to which it told clients it had relocated...

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Dunn's River Falls at risk
St Ann Credit Union is tops
Restaurants now feeling the squeeze
Market runnings
Tax blow for US expats

Superb Sarwan steers West Indies to victory
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (AP): RAMNARESH SARWAN stroked an unbeaten 115 yesterday to spur the West Indies to a four-wicket win over India with one ball to spare in the third one-day international at Warner Park.

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Risto-Cat takes Labour Day Trophy
Teams ready for play-offs
Jamaicans blank South Koreans
Uptown businessman making a difference to inner-city sport
Negril keen to maintain lead
Do or die for defending champs
Tendulkar to miss West Indies series
Scramble on for Cup tickets

Towards a revived social pact
THE OPPOSITION Leader, Mr. Bruce Golding, has strong reasons for wanting a revived social partnership to result in the Government committing itself to "measurable and enforceable" economic targets and for any eventual compact to be "sealed and tight".

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The law is a shackle
To bee or not to bee
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LETTER OF THE DAY - Urgent appeal for highway vehicle checks
THE EDITOR, Sir: I AM alarmed at the recent multiple deaths that have occurred on our roads over the past couple of days. I lay some of the blame on the Ministry of Transport and the Jamaica Information Service. We have gone ahead and introduced a new...

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Root causes of violence
Why not car pooling
Not all mothers the same
Sista P: deliver us

'Iron Balloons' floats with ease
I FELT like chanting Bogle-like "See de key deh" close to the end of A-dZiko Simba's 'Someone To Tell', the third of 11 short stories in Iron Balloons. For while there is a great explanation for the strange name of the fiction collection in editor...

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'THE DA VINCI CODE' - Loads of mystery
Easy listening from Prince Mydas, Rik Rok

FIRST, DO NO HARM
NOBODY IN Jamaica bothers to collect data on medical errors or adverse medical events. At least, not the Ministry of Health nor the Medical Council. So there is no way to measure the nature and scale of bad outcomes of care.

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Dogs ease anxiety of heart failure patients
Quick-and-easy breakfast ideas for children
LETTER - Crisp & clear: Cutting-edge imaging