$3b damage - Gustav devastates road network - Full assessment pending
Tropical Storm Gustav has left at least $3 billion in damage to the country's road infrastructure, says Minister of Transport and Works Mike Henry. He says a full assessment of the damage to the road network has not been made, but the damage done to two main bridges ...

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Schools to open Wednesday
Flooding and hilly terrain challenge utility companies
Bull Bay to Kingston shuttle
Gustav changes McCain's plan
Portland residents disappointed
Hugh Wildman freed
White Hall residents get rude awakening ahead of Gustav
Children need peace

Jermaine's story (Part 2) - from gun to gospel
After a childhood of hardship and suffering, Jermaine, the unwanted product of an alleged rape, left his relatives' home in Balaclava, St Elizabeth, at age 17, to join his mother in Seaview Gardens, St Andrew. There, the seed of anger, deeply embedded in his brain...

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Rita Marley raised not just one star ... a galaxy
Final exams scare my daughter
Palmyra Foundation to supply textbooks to schools across Jamaica
Motivating my young child to read
Steps to successful reading
Wet bedding, furniture tell woeful tales
Portmore, St Ann escape Gustav's wrath

Riu Montego Bay a welcome addition
WESTERN BUREAU: Reporting one of its most impressive openings in the most difficult month to fill hotel rooms in Jamaica, Riu Montego Bay says it will see a 45 per cent occupancy level during September. The 681-room resort, threw its doors open on Friday, welcoming...

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Farmers still recovering from Dean lose more during Gustav

Asafa Powell, Melanie Walker sizzle in the rain
LONDON, England (CMC): Olympic 400-metre hurdles champion Melaine Walker and sprinter Asafa Powell logged Jamaican victories at the Aviva British Grand Prix track-and-field meet yesterday. In rainy conditions at Gateshead, Powell sped to an easy win in...

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Usain Bolt is Beijing's best - American newspaper picks Jamaican over Phelps
WICB to extend first class season
Simoes looks to Thomas for 'libero' role
Robinho repeats desire to join Chelsea
Chelsea, Liverpool draw
Torres in doubt for World Cup qualifiers
Favourites cruise through to quarters
Valuev outpoints Ruiz for WBA title
England on course for sweep

EDITORIAL - EU must pressure Russia to withdraw
European Union leaders are meeting today to fashion a response to Russia's military offensive in Georgia and Moscow's formal recognition of the independence of Georgia's two breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The Caucasus may appear remote from us but events...

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Don't fly our flag unless ...
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LETTER OF THE DAY - Government probe needed on JPS bills
The Editor, Sir: Like most Jamaicans, I am feeling the negative effects of the monthly hike in electricity bills and am requesting the intervention of the Government and the Office of Utilities Regulation in the matter. There has to be a better way...

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Expect worse in Harbour View
Anti-extortion unit needed
Act in interest of the people
Money lust drives Patois push
Act in interest of the people
Farm sector indictment
Imperatives of preparation
Why they want Patois

Managers Needed!
A genius is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration, said Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb. So too, the 'psychedelics' of entertainment. To churn out and sustain a genius, there has to be a manager who puts heart and soul into the making of that star...

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Creating the perfect image
Pulse's Caribbean Model search
Morgan takes the spotlight
Something extra

Brittany looks to South Africa
Her mother, Marie Clare Lyons, was the second runner-up in the Miss Jamaica contest in 1980. Thus, it could be said that it was destiny that led her to walk away with the Miss Jamaica crown on August 16. Brittany Lyons, 19, has been dreaming of becoming Miss Jamaica World ...

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