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Stabroek News

published: Thursday | February 1, 2007

Lead Stories


'We'll control the roads' - Police Commissioner targets itinerant criminals, promises to reduce murders by seven per cent
Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas is predicting that murders will be reduced by seven per cent in 2007, as the police renew efforts to control the roads and limit the movement of itinerant criminals. This, while strengthening other crime strategies.

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US citizenship gets costly
Jamaicans no longer silent on crime
ODPEM concerned with earthquake office safety
Best-selling author Sidney Sheldon dies
Roving with Lalah - The Scott Town monster

News


Privileges Committee to debate possible Samuda sanction
A new date has been set for the Privileges Committee of Parliament to meet and deliberate on possible sanctions against Opposition MP Karl Samuda, who was accused last year of deliberately.

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Judge weighs right to question diplomat
Rajdale Calloo - Striving for excellence
Cabinet approves air service deals
UK cops foil kidnapping, terrorism plot

Business


US President Bush aims at executive salaries
United States President Goerge W. Bush took aim Wednesday at lavish salaries and bonuses for corporate executives, standing on Wall Street to issue a sharp warning for corporate boards to "step up to their responsibilities" and tie compensation...

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Networking sessions for online entrepreneurs

Sport


India demolish Windies
THE LITTLE Master, Sachin Tendulkar, stroked his 41st one-day international (ODI) hundred and helped steer India to a massive 160-run victory over West Indies in the last game of the four-match pre-Cricket World Cup series yesterday.

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Mayberry Swim Meet raring to go
Powell, Simpson sure bets for RJR's top sports awards
Sporting Central hold Naggo Head
Record sponsorship for Milo Relays
Guyana beat Leewards
Stop knocking the Windies
Wind Jammer again
Johnson off to Sheffield Wednesday

Commentary


EDITORIAL - Matters of industrial safety
Accidents, like Monday's collapse of a corn silo at Caribbean Broilers' storage facility in Kingston, will happen. The important thing, though, is to have in place preventative mechanisms to limit such accidents, and that when they do happen, minimise...

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PSOJ, Government, and the rule of law
Central, private bankers vie for ascendancy
Missing the point ... PM's travels flout allowance limits

Letters


LETTER OF THE DAY - Cane field fires part of western crisis
THE EDITOR, Sir: There is a crisis in Jamaica that has now reached the western end of the country and has engulfed the entire nation. The crisis is a lack of opportunities combined with the endless amounts of cocaine the massive amounts of guns...

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Chemical control
Correction
Importation strategies
Watch your health
Economic analysis

Entertainment


An evening of diversity
Ocean's Spray Small lived up to expectations at the recently concluded Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival in Rose Hall. The newcomers did not disappoint. Danah Cameron was up first.

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Diddy says Sienna just a friend
The Nose
Brandy sued for US$50m in fatal LA crash

Farmer's Weekly


Illicit burning a threat to sugar
THE ILLICIT burning of sugar cane is threatening to disrupt the 2006/07 sugar crop, with more than 50,000 tonnes destroyed at the Sugar Company of Jamaica's (SCJ) Frome division in Westmoreland. The damage has been estimated at $75 million.

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Cash in on intra-regional trade, says Grant
On the Farm - Success from the soil
Banana farmers prepare for new EU certification
Market Life

What's Cooking


Jazzin' food - More than 'so-so' curry goat and jerk chicken!
"It's as much about the food as it is about the music," says Jennifer Franklin, a patron at last week's 2007 Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, as she delves into a curry chicken roti that she purchased from Adam's Roti Bar.

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Eating out - Trinidad sweet fah so!
Karl Hart: Cooking up a storm from a tender age
Countdown to Cricket - A taste of Scotland and Grenada

International


Chávez set to rule by decree
Venezuela's Congress yesterday gave approval to the first part of President Hugo Chávez's plan to rule by decree for 18 months as he tries to force through nationalisations key to his self-styled leftist revolution.

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Ex-minister guilty of sexual misconduct
Government eyes second nuke test
International briefs

Countdown to ICC Cricket World Cup


Artist's master strokes deliver fitting souvenir
ARTIST RICHARD Blackford, a cricket enthusiast, recently delivered a decent spin to the Cricket World Cup with his master strokes on canvas.

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Poor early support for Bermuda matches
ODIs against India were crucial to preparation, says WI skipper


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