CRIME CRUSADE - NGOs back Lewin's call for social-intervention programme
Police Commissioner, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, has issued an urgent call for civil society's participation in a sustained social-intervention programme to combat the country's high crime level. In a positive response, several representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have reaffirmed their commitment to the approach...

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The gift of a child - Fostering at Christmas
Universities say crime beyond their control
Will downtown Kingston ever be restored?
Government stepping in to help the homeless
Farming in the inner city
Bicentenary conference ends in great excitation
PM gives at Christmas

Gang warfare claims woman, wounds daughter
Christmas for the family of Grace Walker will be very bleak. Walker became an addition to the burgeoning murder statistics for the year, as she was killed yesterday morning in a busy shopping centre in St. Andrew.

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Missing luggage ruins Christmas spirit
United Theological College in tough battle with criminals
Missing Mona - Family grieves toddler's death
Leaders speak out in Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure debate
An Indian Christmas in Jamaica
Maurice Smith - a hero comes home

Unit trusts a $15.5b market - Sector regains lost ground, but product increasingly difficult to sell
Jamaica's unit-trust market is now valued at over $15 billion, but has been all but devoid of new business in the past two years, industry figures show. The sector has failed to pull in new investors, fund managers acknowledge, even as returns on units climb higher to peak above 13 per cent for the top-performing instrument.

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Pan Caribbean claims 41% of trust market
Xmas gift purchases take second place to food
LOJ, Guardian to try again for GEASO contract
Caribbean-EU trade pact comprehensive, innovative
Securities Commission blocks Neal and Massy - BS&T deal hits new snag

It's Jamaica College at the double
MANNING CUP champions Jamaica College (JC) claimed their second title of the season when they defeated daCosta Cup winners Garvey Maceo 2-0 to win their second Olivier Shield crown at the National Stadium yesterday.

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Year in Review (Golf): Tiger still prince of the fairways
Year in Review (Drugs) - The scourge of sports remains
Year in Review (Rugby): Springboks rise to occasion as All Blacks fall
Smith and the Sunshine Girls
Red-hot Walker outshines Simpson
Portmore eager to boost lead
Arsenal sitting pretty for Christmas
Fuller strikes thrice for Stoke
'Babsy' praises Sunshine Girls
Sunday Chat - Henry: The quiet achiever
We need more work - Vaughan
Year in Review (Tennis): Champs serve it up on court

EDITORIAL - Tread carefully on new contracts threshold
We are loath to criticise the new administration's plan to lower the financial threshold at which specific government agencies can unilaterally enter procurement contracts, yet, we understand the seeming concern of Contractor General Greg Christie over the issue.

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Public Affairs - Understanding our new commissioner
Once there was a place called Jamaica ...
Christmas again
Why educated Jamaicans remain overseas

Letter of the day - The police force needs adequate protective gear
THE EDITOR, Sir: I wish you and all the members of staff at The Gleaner Company a blessed and peaceful Christmas. Of all the arguments we are hearing nowadays, the one in the forefront is about crime and violence. The other issue is about the police.

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Caribbean Terrace wants answers
Appreciate the comments, but get the facts
Jamaica needs external help
There's hope this Christmas

Sean Kingston's 'Beautiful Girl' is mommy
Janice Turner meticulously prepared tripe and beans for her celebrated son, Sean Kingston, last Saturday and if and when he desires ackee and saltfish, stew peas or pig's tail, she will don her apron without hesitation

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Chris Smith returns to manage home
Dwight Samuels in 'Comedy Buss' front seat
Pantomime brings in families
Crime won't stop the party
ECHO CHAMBERS - Five Star the top ranking in 'St Bess'

Jamaica's jewel
THE TERM master jeweller is often used loosely, but not with the case of Garth Sanguinetti. He is one of Jamaica's master jewellers, and for some persons, the Caribbean's best. But, for too long, the superb talent of Sanguinetti has gone unnoticed.

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Joan Andrea Hutchinson expresses 'Inna Mi Heart'
The Wordsmith - A forum for examining the language of speech and writing
Literary arts - Waiting for Sam
Obeah (Part II)

'Outlook' room makeover - Santa soothes Shamala's pain
When 11-year-old Shamala, with the help of her aunt, Nadia, penned her entry to the Outlook Christmas bedroom makeover, there was one thing on her mind. The discomfort being experienced by two of the kindest persons she has ever met was just too painful for her.

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Single in the city - Would you date a criminal?
Doctor's advice - How can he get her pregnant?
They need a roof

Culture clash at Christmas
To a country soaked in blood and ripped apart by divisions and strife, the traditional Christmas message of "peace and goodwill toward men" is extremely meaningful and apt. If there is one people who need the respite of Christmas, it is the Jamaican people. (Boyne)

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Democracy after 100 days
'Nothing is ever promised to you tomorrow, today!'
Who cares about downtown Kingston?

Thirty-five and going strong!
Fraser Fontaine and Kong held its 35th anniversary banquet and awards presentation at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel on December 13; here are pictorial highlights.

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Casserly, and UWJ CEO, Winsome Wilkins (centre).

United Way's 'antidote'
A festive affair!
Muna's pre-wedding soirée
'My FLAIR Wedding'
Breezes a 'runaway' hit

France could boost troops in Afghanistan, says President
In a surprise visit to give French troops his Christmas greetings, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said France could boost its presence in Afghanistan to help the Afghan army and police.

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Former British PM Blair converts to Catholicism