Chavez to visit
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is expected in Jamaica next week to conclude the signing of a US$260 million loan to the Government for the next phase of Highway 2000.

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No birdseed for hunter's licence
Leave politics alone - Samuda
'Ivan' relief ready for coffee farmers
Media group blasts attack on Guyana newspaper

Fire brigade beefs up personnel
The Jamaica Fire Brigade yesterday graduated 123 men and women at the G.C. Foster College, St. Catherine. Under a searing sun, the brigade, which is experiencing a human capacity shortage of about 300 persons, paraded the 123 men and women...

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Scouts jamboree opens in Portland
Accoss the Nation
Terror suspects named
Teen mom on ammo rap

BoJ governor predicts rate drop Bankers react cautiously
The Bank of Jamaica (BoJ), which has trimmed interest rates no fewer than a dozen times in the last 30 months, says there will be more cuts before year-end.

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NCB Capital Markets preference share offer oversubscribed
Airlines cancel flights, shares drop on bomb plot - Jamaica unaffected

Reid challenges JFF's competence
Western Bureau: Former Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) general secretary, Horace Reid, has joined the growing list of high profile football personalities questioning the suitability of the current Crenston Boxhill-led administration...

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Powell wary of suspicion
Nagamootoo spins Guyana into final
Stiff contest for Eric Dias Cup
ICC sets focus on playing conditions'
U-19 girls launch regional tussle
Informing on Graham could save Gatlin
IOC seminar under way
Lyn leads Jamaica to victory
'Bull' mows 'em down
Mad rush for quarter-finals
Raiders, JDF in big showdown
Continental too strong
JAAA clears air on Robertson

New concerns for regional security
Friday's announcement by British officials that they had foiled an alleged plot by terrorists to blow up several aircraft heading for the United States from the United Kingdom should renew security concerns for countries like Jamaica.

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Be not afraid to seek alternative solutions
National Heroes Park - Where is it?

LETTER OF THE DAY - Toll road benefits need further study
The Editor, Sir: I would like to believe that more could be gained from the debate on the cost to use Portmore Toll Road, if one should take an approach that seeks to examine the effect of the toll road on the various stakeholders.

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Make her a heroine
Facts on alumina dust
Better argument for teachers

Perry makes new friends in TNT's 'Ron Clark Story'
Matthew Perry may have been a troublemaker back in high school, but he earns high marks as an inspirational teacher in The Ron Clark Story, a fact-based TNT original movie premiering tomorrow night at 7.

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Soap scene
'As the World Turns' - Craig Montgomery is back and causing trouble
'General Hospital' - Jason Thompson begins to soften his bedside manner

... life - Sleep derived
Dear Counsellor: I have a problem that's been going on for a year now. I have difficulty falling asleep at night and I am unable to sleep throughout the night.

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... relationships - Insecure wife
Make Miss Lou and Maas Bob heroes

Africa reconverting the West - Takes Christianity back to 'godless' Europe
BLACKBIRD LEYS, England (Reuters): Western missionaries took Christianity to Africa in the 1800s. Now Kenyan minister Patrick Mukholi is bringing it back.

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Childbearing in defiance?

Shareholders pitching in to save LIAT
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): LIAT, the inter-regional airline, will soon be freed of some of its financial obligations at a time the cash-strapped airline is making plans to unveil an overhauled route schedule in September, Barbados' Minister...

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Castro to miss birthday party