Cops attacked
THE POLICE in St. Ann have launched a manhunt for a man who shot and injured two policemen in an early morning incident at the Claremont police station. The two policemen, whose injuries have not been considered serious were identified as Constable W...

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JUTC, UAWU for Labour Ministry
Builders, NWA to discuss extortion
NWC starts redundancy programme
Hampden pays out millions to laid-off workers
History created, local car exported to the Bahamas

Solid Waste agency suspects fraud
INDEPENDENT GARBAGE-trucking crews, contracted to support the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) ageing rolling stock, have come under suspicion of fraud and misappropriation of funds, after allegations surfaced about the abuse of the...

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...Search on for missing lawman
Traffic woes plague KSAC
Farmers to benefit from FAO relief programme
Man sentenced, fined for breaching Road Traffic Act

JSIF moves to increase community participation
DR. WESLEY HUGHES, Chairman of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), has said that the organisation was moving to increase community ownership of and contribution to projects. Speaking at the seventh Annual General Meeting of JSIF on Wednesday...

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Supreme Court rules against Oceanic Digital

Beckford shines
PARIS, France: LONG JUMPER James Beckford rolled back the years in the Stade de France last night to lift Jamaica's tally at the ninth IAAF World Athletics Championships to three silver medals.

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It's a family affair at Sabina Park
IAAF has a duty to act, says Pound
It's Feanny vs DaCosta in feature
Barbados' Forde tests positive for ephedrine

Bloodshed and grief
MUCH OF the grief from the persistent violence in this nation is caused by the bloodshed spilled by illegal guns. But there is grief too from carnage on the roadways ­ this from another category of illegality: careless and dangerous use of the...

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The Blue Mtn Peak Trail

Letter Of The Day - Sleeping through nightclub noises?
THE EDITOR, Sir: IT'S 1:40 on a Thursday morning and instead of sleeping, I'm writing this letter to The Editor. Believe me, I want to sleep; I even took a sleeping aid. But the noise from Weekendz Night Club and Priscilla's Night Club invades my right...

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The Emancipation statue ­ Posterity and spiritual implications - An open letter to the Prime Minister of Jamaica
Bring absentee fathers to book
Brigitte was right
Agriculture needs help
Ignorance of history
Rural fare disparity
Shameful the way we hate our own people
UHWI doctors Whitely and Jones

Pat Gooden embodies 'Classically Cultural'
SHE CROONED that she is glad she is a girl and Ian Andrews called her 'Aunty Pat'. MC Michael Anthony Cuffe misplaced her birthplace in London; the Scottish lass corrected with a twinkle and a burr, then proceeded to 'ride di riddim' deejay style in...

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MTV rewinds 20 years in Video Music Awards show

Coffee, cocoa groups to merge
THERE IS a move afoot to have the Jamaica Coffee Federation, which represents the 16 low-land coffee co-operatives islandwide, amalgamated with the Jamaica Cocoa Federation.

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Farmers step up pepper output in N West Clarendon

To the peak of satisfaction
THIS HAPPENS to me too many times. An idea comes along and I jump at it immediately, only to ask myself "What were you thinking?" in the middle of it. This time, the realisation of what I had done did not manifest itself until I was half way up...

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The pros and cons of communication - How do we speak?