Full alert! Hurricane emergency workers summoned, shelter managers on standby
Jamaica was yesterday put on hurricane watch, as Hurricane Dean strengthened to Category Four last night packing winds of up to a maximum 135 miles per hour.It is expected to move over Jamaica some time tomorrow morning.

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Supermarkets under siege
Drain cleaning continues - NWA
Transport advisories listed
Hurricane threat triggers bipartisan collaboration

Eastern Caribbean islands take a hit
CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP): Hurricane Dean roared across small Eastern Caribbean islands yesterday, tearing away roofs, flooding streets and killing at least three people as it headed west on a collision course with Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

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Police ready for 'Dean'
Water, power companies prepared
'Mi just a wait and see' - Flood-prone areas have little faith in emergency centres
YFC returns to core values

Manning unveils mega farm plan - T&T targets organic food crops, To partner with CARICOM states
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Prime Minister Patrick Manning says a new initiative between his administration and an international agency will take agriculture here to 'unprecedente heights'.

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BP Trinidad commits to natural gas exploration, despite concerns over reserves

Stephenson undecided
Kingston and St. Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) president, Ambassador A.B. Stewart Stephenson, remains undecided with regard to contesting the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) elections, denoting the issue as a bridge that cannot be crossed before it is reached.

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Ja look good for 12 medals
Pick-9 to top $6.5m
Jamaica's best bets
Watts: stage set for Ja to do well
H View sweep NPL awards
Federer, Hewitt in semi-final clash
Confident Ja leave to defend crown
Windalco register crucial win

Significant markers on election campaign
With the general election just over a week away, three developments have put markers on the process in separate ways. We refer to the political debates, the banning of political meetings in two troubled constituencies and the likely effect of the weather on the election date itself.

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A sharing village

LETTER OF THE DAY - This 'season of promise' is like that cruel sport
The Editor, Sir: I left high school in 1973, and was drawn into Michael Manley's vision for a better society.

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Portia and the Maroon abeng
JPS and Ivan charges
Bruce's budget packaging
'We can do it too'
Consultations on abortion

'As You Like It' remains faithful to Shakespeare
Kenneth Branagh always has had a yen for Shakespeare, but that's not why he decided to set the Bard's comedy As You Like It in 19th-century Japan.The actor and director says that notion for his new film, which premieres Tuesday on HBO, originally came...

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'The Bold and the Beautiful' - This summer, things are heating up between Thorne and Donna
Former 'Young & Restless' exec joins 'Days' team

... life - I'm a survivor of sexual abuse
Dear Counsellor: I am a survivor of sexual abuse. I, however, find that I get depressed easily and tend to get panic attacks. I have difficulty coping sometimes.

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Foreigners stand tall at US military academies
Coping with 'the change' - Menopause hard on couples' sex lives

Brazil to provide free sex-change operations
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP): Brazil's public health system will begin providing free sex-change operations in compliance with a court order, the health ministry said yesterday.Ministry spokesman Edmilson Oliveira da Silva said the government would not...

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