Credit card abuse - Officials charge personal expenses to gov't's account
SOME SENIOR Government officials have been charging thousands of dollars in personal expenses to government-funded credit cards and have even issued them to employees who are not eligible to use them.

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Ja not automatically backing Venezuela for UN seat - Hylton
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Political parties should declare financing source says MacMillan
CITING continued concerns of corruption in Government, former Commissioner of Police, Colonel Trevor MacMillan, has called for politicians and their parties to declare the source of their funding.

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Firefighters not hurricane ready
Call for repeal of homosexual, prostitution laws
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PanCarib to launch US$ unit trust
PANCARIBBEAN FINANCIAL Services (PCFS) will launch a U.S. dollar fixed-income fund later this year which will join its other unit trust products, Sigma Optima and Sigma Solution, the chief executive officer, Donovan Perkins, told...

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Moss Solomon encourages trading
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SEC effort to oversee hedge funds cracked

WI slide going for quick runs
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Reuters): SHIVNARINE CHANDERPAUL was stranded three runs short of a century after West Indies collapsed in the third Test against India yesterday.

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Beckenbauer ties knot in private ceremony
England to pin hopes on Rooney
Aussies the only 'Asian' team standing
No favourites in Netherlands, Portugal encounter
Scott is a top shot at Champs
Fit Alpha Lupa upsets in feature
Podolski, Klose in match-winning partnership against Sweden
Argentina send Mexico on their way
WICB settles contracts for India series
Once again, what's the purpose of the 'A' team?
Agassi to call it a day
Gatlin clocks 9.93 at US championships

Clean up Island Traffic Authority
WE HAVE long known that there are gross inefficiencies and corruption in the process by which we test and license drivers and motor vehicles in Jamaica and that the whole thing is long past due for an overhaul. What we might not have known, which is...

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PUBLIC AFFAIRS - MacMillan Task Force Report: A disservice to Ja
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'Braking' news
It's all about people

LETTER OF THE DAY - Women's lobby supports appointment of female principal at St George's
THE EDITOR, Sir: WOMEN'S MEDIA Watch (WMW) members have found themselves in a whirl of debate over the appointment of a female principal at St. George's College, and we wish to make the following points.

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Is JLP reviving the Cold War?
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45s aimed at informers - Records advocate violence against those who cooperate with cops
IT'S STRANGE how humorous that ominous line in the 2000 movie Third World Cop, warning a potential 'informer' to keep quiet, seems on the big screen.

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Code of silence bloody real
Organisations more than 'group'ies
Rebel with a 'bling'
Dancing for a scholarship
Rayon gives 'Thanks and Praises' 20 years on

GOING BANANAS!
IT WAS after a lengthy period of continual rain back in 2002, about six weeks of it, on and off. Everything was soaking wet, and looking out unto the hills one evening, the black clouds receding.

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The dream of return

'I did it my way'
IN 1998 when Jamaica qualified for the World Cup finals, Johnny Gourzong was on the plane to France.

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Dorette Scott fêted
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The Lady loves dogs
Family time and the executive
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Samuda, Chavez and the PNP
WHILE THE media understandably lapped up the sumptuous fare which Opposition spokesman Karl Samuda served in the sectoral debate Tuesday, there was no discussion on a more critical foreign policy issue which he addressed. Showing that, indeed...

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The first 100 days
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Fathers fêted at brunch
THE ORGANISERS of the Jamaica Pegasus' Father's Day Brunch had the right idea when they set up a projection of the ensuing World Cup match between Brazil and Australia on a wall in the Grande Jamaica Suite, so that the fathers could...

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Stars shine at Classic cocktails
The Queen is 80
Claiming their birthright
And the Lions roared!