'FINSAC ruined me' - Man loses business, home during '90s meltdown
Participants in the ongoing commission of enquiry into the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) were left with heavy hearts yesterday as the hearing learned how the financial crisis of the 1990s and its aftermath ruined 59-year-old Mechesk Willis' life...

• Come and invest in Tanzania, says Kikwete
• Doing his duty with pleasure
• Dominoes for peace - Western Kingston cops use nat'l pastime to tame crime monster
• Davies under FINSAC fire - Enquiry heats up as former finance minister faces business owners
• UNESCO works on new standards for teachers

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'Jamaica too slow to pick up EU grants'
A British government minister has expressed concern that Jamaica and other members of the CARIFORUM group have been slow in accessing millions of dollars in grant funding from the European Union, to be used to modernise their industries to do business...

• Honours bid gets snubbed - MPs shoot down army chief's call for special awards for soldiers
• HIV/AIDS anti-stigma campaign launched
• JN ends water woes at White Marl school
• PSOJ calls for BOJ monetary policy body
• Thursdaytalk - Hottest topics on the cocktail circuit

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Who is Peter Moses?
Respected banker Peter Moses has been selected to chair a special team which will oversee the recently established Public Sector Transformation Unit (PSTU). Moses, country manager for CitiBank, heads the six-member Consultative Monitoring Group.

• Stewart's to take over Motor Sales
• US Embassy changes visa fee payment procedure
• More job cuts loom in 2010

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Harbour View on top
Former champions Harbour View shot to the top of the Digicel Premier League yesterday on 28 points after their impressive 2-0 victory away to St Georges (25 points) at the previously impenetrable Lynch Park venue. Substitute Denzil Watson was the difference maker...

• Windies start without Sarwan
• More runs! - Parchment, Hinds slam centuries as batsmen continue to dominate
• Gayle looks forward to Barath partnership
• Brown credits coach for UWI golf success
• Accident helped me - Bolt
• Wizards, Majesty set for exciting decider

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EDITORIAL - Bad lapse by Vaz, Samuda
Despite the occasional lapse by public officials who flex ominously against the press, the Jamaican media have escaped the worst of the intrusions by governments or acts of impunity faced by journalists in some countries, who sometimes pay for freedom with their lives...

• Waiting for the other shoe
• Supporting Stewart Saunders

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LETTER OF THE DAY - How can they be trusted?
The Editor, Sir: The report in the Sunday Gleaner of November 22 titled 'Sacred secrets ...' reveals some disturbing facts regarding the reporting of suspected incidents of child abuse.Although in Jamaica everyone is bound by law...

• Greedy tax collectors
• Good job, Basil Waite & UTech Students' Union
• Give the Air Jamaica staff a chance
• Tap retired public servants
• Which Watson speaks on E10?
• The case for a debate

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Gloom as 'Squingy' passes
Gloom. That's the word Bass Odyssey's owner Keith Walford used to sum up the mood in the sound system's camp in Alexandria, St Ann, on Tuesday as news of top selector Squingy's death began to soak in. Squingy, real name Kevin Bennett, died around 4:30 Tuesday morning...

• Something extra

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Luxury Rum launched
J. Wray and Nephew launched its new luxury rum last Thursday with a delectable seven-course dinner at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel along Waterloo Rd. The event promised a quiet evening of the hotel's famous cuisine but, to complement the fare....

• Sweet, sweet, Sugar Mill!
• Eggs are eggs-cellent! - Meet the winners
• Enter the Red Label Wine Christmas Cake Contest
• FOR REGGAE MARATHON...Pasta: Pocket friendly, energy rich!
• Thanksgiving with the Parnells

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