HAITIAN HAUL - Narco cops missing clues in trade
THE POLICE ARE overlooking some major clues in their efforts to crack the guns-for-drugs trade between Jamaica and Haiti, an insider tells The Sunday Gleaner. Chief among the clues is the quantity of gasolene being purchased at various service stations to fuel the trade.

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'Walk away' - Golding, Simpson Miller urged to leave garrison constituencies
Motorists running out of gas
'Employ RICO laws to dismantle garrisons'
Haitian women pawns in trade
Lead poisoning linked to crime
Fewer teenage pregnancies
Why they want a Patois Bible

Airports swamped by drug couriers
Local narcotics police are expressing concern about what they have described as a breakdown in the security system at the country's two international airports, especially the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston.

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Haitian haul - Trafficking flourishes
Positive parenting - Child abuse out of hand
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Diaspora a mighty force in national development
International briefs

JN Money expanding through agents - Signs Mid-Island Investment of Santa Cruz
JN Money Services (JNMS) has contracted Mid-Island Investment Limited of Santa Cruz as agent to service its remittance clients at that section of the island. Clients will only be able to receive funds coming in from JN's remittance markets in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, St Vincent, and the Cayman Islands...

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Cable and Wireless introduces prepaid BlackBerry plan
Third-party motor liability a silly law
Money management - Curing the spending disease
Experts plan to ban large investors from oil
Caribbean, Scotland exploring deeper foreign ties

Asafa warms up with 9.96
FORMER WORLD-record holder Asafa Powell warmed up for this weekend's mouth-watering 100m clash with Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man, at the National Championships, with an impressive run in Trinidad and Tobago yesterday.

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JDF aim to end losing streak
Raikkonen puts Ferrari on pole
Passa Passa upsets again
Russia stun Netherlands
Hanover, Kensington in box seats
Canadians advance in Cup qualifying
International drivers for karting carnival
Test cricket is still cricket, lovely cricket
Mind Your Businesss
Sunday Chat - Thomas living the hoops dream

EDITORIAL - Let firms use their NHT contributions to create jobs
There is no question that Prime Minister Golding and his Jamaica Labour Party came to bat on a rather sticky wicket, although much of it was of their own making. There is no disputing, however, that the global economic situation is far from pretty.

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Security and human rights
MPs and the public trust
Detention!
Guess who's coming to dinner?

LETTER OF THE DAY - 'I'm not cheap, I'm a lady!'
The Editor, Sir: WHILE WALKING on the road one day, I overheard a con-versation among youths my age, or probably older, two guys and a girl. These were the lines I caught: (apparently the question was directed to Guy 2)

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Bad precedent for Air Jamaica flight
Patois Bible - nonsense

Jamaica at cultural 'Crossroads'
Jamaica, like the rest of the Caribbean, is a country of those who came, a melting pot marked by signposts of streets with European names teeming with African faces, where East Indian and Chinese businesspeople hold sway and Japanese bodies attempt to sway 'yard-style' in numerous dancehalls 'after hours'.

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Nyabinghi, Revival, Stone Love in same village
Marlon's 'Simm-ply' one of the best
Singers harmonise with wellness
Well-developed plot and characters in 'Moon River'
Former Grace Thrillers lead singer in coma

George Rodney: In pursuit of purity
Fifty-one years ago, when George Rodney started out at the Cultural Training Centre on North Street, Kingston, he couldn't possibly have known where the journey would take him, but he knew he wanted to paint. At the time, the institution that eventually became the Edna Manley College (EMC) was a part-time school.

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Literary Arts - Believe it!
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Literary Arts - Nightmare
CALLING LITERARY ARTS WRITERS

Theresa Bryan - The Dog Whisperer
Bryan has always loved animals, and worked summers as a keeper at the Hope Zoo while attending high school in Kingston. Now in her 50s, she has found her life's calling as a clicker trainer for animals.

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FRIENDS ON FRIENDS - Rita Marley's crops in Africa
Single in the city - Jealousy, an ugly green monster
Doctor's advice - Are her fantasies OK?
Jody-Ann Weller wins silver
Outlook Youth - Balancing a career with school

The detention debate
Again, while the criminals are united in war against us as a society, we have been turning the polemical guns on ourselves in a war of choice over the matter of preventive detention and other measures to fight terrorism. (Boyne)

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Jamaica: Energy policy and strategy
The culture of non-compliance
The politics of dependence
Jamaica's libel laws and the Inter-American Commission
The search for peace
Patois, Bible and translation

Let there be music
British High Commissioner Jeremy Cresswell hosted a reception last Thursday for Richard Morris, CEO of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) in London. His visit is part of the centenary celebrations of the ABRSM exams being conducted in Jamaica.

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Harry Belafonte loves Devon House ice cream!
It's a new look for KFC!
Scotiabank Jamaica wins Silver Screen Award
The 'Thais' that bind

The 2008 Jeep Compass - Pocket-size trail blazer
About three months ago, Automotives tested the Jeep Patriot which, pound for pound, was the best value crossover sport utility vehicle (SUV) in this tester's opinion ... But, the Patriot has a little brother - the Compass.

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Truck-based vehicles becoming extinct Consumers going for smaller vehicles
Auto Blotters - New SVT Ford super-truck
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