Jamaica on top - Leads Caribbean call centre expansion
WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICA HAS scored big successes in the exploding regional call centre outsourcing business, says Philip Peters, chief executive officer of Zagada Markets.
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Stories Battle heats up for West St Andrew seat
Golding calls for CSME role
Ocho Rios courthouse abandoned
Cornwall Regional gets new machine
JPS must adhere to salary rules, says tribunal
New Permanent Secretary for Prime Minister's office
Shirley Tyndall bowing out (Part II)
The following is the second instalment of an interview with outgoing Financial Secretary, Shirley Tyndall. The first part was published in yesterday's Sunday Gleaner.
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Stories Tower Street and St Catherine inmates to benefit from computer training
J'can to serve on CIFAL Atlanta's board of trustees
Users call for road repairs
NSWMA concern about increase in gang warfare
St. Elizabeth gets new street lights
Beauty industry gets a makeover
USING A backyard barber or hair salon may not necessarily improve your appearance. Public health specialists say these unlicensed establishments can give persons scalp and skin fungal infections such as ringworm.
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Stories Money management for women
Operating below the radar
Windies surrender
BRIDGETOWN: THE WEST Indies dream of winning the third Test, levelling the count at one-one and setting up a winner-take-all showdown in the fourth and final Test of the Digicel Series ended in a nightmare, in broad daylight, at Kensington Oval yesterday.
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Stories Five J'cans win at Texas Invitational track meet
Calabar, St Andrew top C&W KO
Portmore clip Spring
Tivoli slam Rivoli 4-1
Lamey slams in four-timer
Village hold Invaders
Energy conservation vital
A US$300,000 agreement was recently signed between the Government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) towards the improvement of energy efficiency in the public sector.
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Stories The cricket quandary, again
Jamaica's true identity
What does politics make?
LETTER OF THE DAY - Riverton dump fire taking health toll
THE EDITOR, Sir: FOR DAYS now the Riverton City dump has been burning. The smoke has become more than a nuisance and is now affecting the health of residents around the area, in Portmore, Plantation Heights, Queen and Forest hills.
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Stories We need daylight saving time
Police need customer service training
Praying in vain
Bartok, Brahms and Chopin at Edna Manley
ON FRIDAY evening the auditorium at the School of Music at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts was filled with the sounds of Bela Bartok, Frederic Chopin and Johannes Brahms.
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Stories Brown, Anderson fighting crime through music
A bit of Colombia set to dock in Kingston
Calabash seminars end on 'bookish' note
Hammond, Holt shine in west
Seeking perfection
IN THEIR search for the perfect male anatomy, more men are undergoing cosmetic surgery. In the United States, the number of cosmetic procedures performed on men has more than tripled since 1997.
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Stories SEX AND RELATIONSHIP - The difference between men and women
Powerful women perform for charity
From fat boy to iron man
CONSUMERS, GAMBLERS
and smokers will have to dig deeper into their pockets this year to help
the Government keep its promise of balancing the budget.
Minister of Finance
and Planning, Dr. Omar Davies, yesterday presented a tax plan to Parliament,
intended to produce an extra $9.4 billion in revenue to plug the hole
in this year's $347.2 billion spending plan. more
OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN
on Finance, Audley Shaw, is not impressed with Government's plans for
financing the 2005/2006 Budget.
Speaking to The Gleaner
shortly after Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. Omar Davies, opened
the Budget debate in the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr. Shaw
admitted that some assistance has been provided to the most economically
vulnerable through the raising of the income tax threshold
but argued that the same assistance has been negated by tax increases.
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Battle heats up for West St Andrew seat
