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published: Sunday | May 7, 2006

Lead Stories


'SUE ME' - Golding thumbs nose at firm employing Patterson
WESTERN BUREAU: OPPOSITION LEADER Bruce Golding yesterday brushed aside a threat by the United States consultancy firm, GoodWorks International, to sue him unless he retracts a statement implying a relationship between the firm and Mirant...

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Playing it safe - Health Ministry rolls out plans for Cricket World Cup
Picking on prostitutes
IMF and World Bank big up credit unions
The budget according to Bruce
The ups and downs of foster parenting

News


Registration fees boosting health care at hospitals
THE REGISTRATION fee at public hospitals islandwide might be a mere $300 per patient. However, it contributes significantly in providing health care at some hospitals, according to Nigel Logan, principal finance officer at the Health...

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JLP on the right track
A life on a cultural mission - Pt. 1
Gov't of Spain looking to develop Spanish Town
A national security strategy for Jamaica
Rema Commission Report (Pt I)

Business


Cashing in on remodelling
INVESTMENT IN real estate, specifically residential housing is on the top of many person's agenda these days. All across Jamaica this interest is rising. And with World Cup Cricket next year there will be opportunities for many bed and...

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How do I achieve financial freedom?
Golding proposes economic platform to give people a chance
Looking at the Canadian Investment Fund
A 'Mutual Advantage'
EC nears agreement for Caribbean funds
AIC, Carib region get financing
Education Key to economic sustainability

Sport


The Saints in charge
ST. CATHERINE: ST. CATHERINE CC are in command of their Supreme Ventures Super Cup Challenge Trophy semi-final match against Melbourne entering today's final day at Chedwin Park.

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Barbaro pulls off convincing win
Medical Report takes Frankie Frazer Cup
New Zealand fight back against SA
Let's really make it the best World Cup ever
Chanderpaul adjusts to life after WI captaincy
Reggae Boy King helps Watford to big victory
Jamrock Streetballers tour put off
Drivers prepare for stiff competition

Commentary


A time to shift gears
THE MANAGEMENT capacity of the public sector seems to have been in constant decline since Independence in 1962. The decline accelerated during the People's National Party (PNP) administration of Michael Manley in the 1970s when party loyalty was given...

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PUBLIC AFFAIRS - Delroy Chuck is so tiresome!
A travesty of music education
Environmental and lizards 'tales'
The duppy economic policy

Letters


LETTER OF THE DAY - In defence of the faith
THE EDITOR, Sir: Ian Boyne's column in The Sunday Gleaner entitled 'Innocence lost' made an uninformed statement which I quote: "No pastor took to the air to explain texts from Romans and Daniel showing that the PM's...

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Why is the Church so silent?
In response to Nico Moon
In search of Cuthbert Arthur Vines
St John Bosco Boys' Home needs a chapel

Entertainment


Dancehall ROCKS gently
WHEN MANY think of rock music, images of head bangers in white face powder, eyes lined in black and reddened lips puckered, spring to mind.

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Destra aims to triple up
Christine MacDonald born a singer
Harold Davis 'moonlights' with music

Arts &Leisure


BEAUTIFUL DETAILS
HAVE YOU ever stopped to examine flowers and plants? I mean, really got up close to examine their details. There is something to be said for the patterns and symmetry found in nature. This is what was found at the Jamaica Horticultural Society's...

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Bright future for gymnastics
Yard talk
Liguanea Arts Festival: bigger and better
Cuba at a glance, and speed read
Delightful integration of text, colour visuals

Outlook


Dr Answorth Allen - BOY GENIUS MAKES IT BIG MEDICINE
WESTERN BUREAU: HIS APTITUDE surpassed every other child in the New York City high school he enrolled in. As a consequence, school administrators asked him to leave two and a half months into his first semester.

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Children, sex, and the Internet
Problems with her sex life
If you can't REPLACE IT, COVER IT!

In Focus


DO OR DIE! The task of catching tax evaders
THE EXPENDITURE budget presented by the Minister of Finance does what I hoped it would do. Rather than punishing taxpayers by imposing higher taxes to fill the hole in revenue left by tax evaders, it has targeted those artful dodgers to get what is...

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'You were there, Madam PM!'
In memory of Alan St Claver Coombs
Politics 'as usual' will not win youth votes

Social


Bodacious 'Babsy' is superb at 60!
SHE IS regarded by many within the ranks of the Opposition JLP as their equivalent or answer to the PNP's Portia Simpson Miller.

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Montegonians embrace Gloria
Practise responsible journalism, lawyer urges media houses


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