NWC goes to court
Company moves to sell properties of indebted customers
THE NATIONAL Water Commission (NWC) has petitioned the courts for permission to sell the properties of several Corporate Area customers whose accounts are in massive arrears with the Commission.

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Back-to-school frenzy
Ganja-based eyedrops a hot sell
'Deficient' transcripts cause row
Failure of anti-crime measures: State agencies reject blame
Big redevelopment plans for downtown Parade area

Inner-city youth camp a success
A SUMMER camp geared at empowering youths in marginalised inner-city communities ended on Friday with many of the participants and organisers expressing hope that skills learnt will help reduce crime and violence in the areas.

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Murder-suicide in Waterhouse
Lacklustre performance threatens to close school
Packaging industry on deathbed

JEF wants performance-based pay
RATHER THAN handing out generalised pay increases, Herbert Lewis, Jamaica Employers' Federation president, says pay increases need to be linked to productivity. But implementing this has been an uphill task.

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Digicel, JAS form alliance
BoJ regulations will not affect credit union members
US collection agency opens contact centre in Montego Bay
When it wasn't safe to bank on your banker

Mason has high hopes for medal
FAST-RISING high jumper Germaine Mason took his first big step towards winning a medal at the ninth IAAF World Athletics Championships when he reached tomorrow's final after a gutsy display inside the Stade de France yesterday.

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Melbourne, Lucas in final
The Admiral romps Magnum Tonic Wine Sprint
Barbican knock out Portmore
Injury grounds Johnson
Commentary - Looking for a president

Editorial: Please, Minister - no levelling down
EDUCATION MINISTER, Mrs. Maxine Henry-Wilson, has revealed that she is mulling over the problem of primary school children who score best on the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) all going to a small number of 'elite' secondary schools while those...

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Challenging times for JTA, education
An obsession with ethnic culture
Wanted: Bold, strong women leaders

Letter of the day - Don Robotham's dangerous proposal
THE EDITOR, Sir: YOUR CONTRIBUTOR Don Robotham writing in The Sunday Gleaner of August 17, said "It is obvious that the only solution to our crime crisis is some form of preventive detention without trial."

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Setting the record straight
Disolving educational inequities
A step into the right direction
'Being gay is not a choice'
The election of Bishop Robinson

Models search for success
THIS MONTH alone, Nadine Willis will be featured in pictorials of some 15 international magazines. Meanwhile, the United States (U.S.)-based Glamour magazine, long known as 'The Beauty Bible', will publish a story on her meteoric rise...

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Shelly Thunder 'kuffs' the Devil
'Bashment buses' banished - no music for JUTC buses
Social - Romping at the historic Flamstead

Time to paint
A COLLECTION of paintings dubbed Metamorphosis is currently on show at Bolivar Gallery. The pieces are done by New Zealand-born John A. Terry who has been living in Jamaica since 1967.

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Of subversion and creativity
Book review: Folklore given life
Monumental Mistake
One hell of a monument

Profile - The economics of murder
THEY SAY that she will become the first female Governor of the Bank of Jamaica. True, Christine Clarke is only 22 years old. But what does age matter, when she is capable of grasping concepts that would boggle the mind of the average individual?

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Overcoming obstacles - Autistic children show why they are special
Barbara McDaniel - the diva of dance

Crisis in crime
Can we get a grip?
VER SO often we have to go through the ritual of some new crime plan, some new initiative, some renewed initiative, some brilliant new set of strategies, some new task force, committee, national broadcast or study to deal with... (Boyne)

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Crisis in Crime
Coming home to roost
Smut, pornography and sexual crimes
Taxes and the informal economy
Casinos and crime: New myth based on an old reality