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Too many rooms! - Hotel growth pressuring infrastructure
Some resort towns have exceeded the level of development recommended by the Tourism Ministry, raising fears among environmentalists and officials that the infrastructure is coming under strain.
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Portia bats for women at international conference
Editors' Forum - NEPA ducks planning blame
Move to certify environmental assessors
Jamaica not ready for massive resort development - PIOJ
Port Authority secures loans
Contractor General to face Public Accounts Committee
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Quarrel over hotel land
Ocho Rios: The Bahia Príncipe hotel now under construction at Pear Tree Bottom in St. Ann is facing a major legal challenge.
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Improved targeting of the needy, but greedy still benefiting
Determined to teach
Labour Party seeks answers
Abraham and 9/11
Solar heating programme in hospitals gaining steam
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Telecoms firm hunts wireless broadband licence - JNAP Hopes to compete with Digicel
Local telecommunications firm Jamaica Network Access Point (JNAP) is going after one of two wireless broadband licences that the Government has been trying to sell over the last two months, despite hiccups in its initial bid.
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New tax rules not for private motor vehicle importers
Small movement in prices August
Housing developer offering 'Escape' in St Ann
Investors still hungry for DB&G shares
A deeper look into the markets
The murky divide between domestic and foreign policy
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W'house, Tivoli battle
AFTER MAKING relatively easy work of newcomers August Town in the first week of the 2006-2007 Wray and Nephew National Premier League, defending champions Waterhouse should have a tougher challenge on their hands today against Tivoli Gardens...
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Convincing wins for Manley, C'down
Maldon surprise Cornwall
Exclusive Runner shines in Stakes
Another inexplicable batting collapse
Rain forces abandonment
Pompey advance to top of standings
Windies must reach final - Lara
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The PM's faux pas
We would hope that by now Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has reflected on her speech at Wednesday's handover of homes to residents of her South West St. Andrew constituency under the administration's Inner-City Housing Project.
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Jamaica's debt trap: a vicious circle
IMF prescription - same old story
Never trust any J'can Government
Poly 'ticks'
Plato and the education system
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Letter of the day - Walk good, Miss Lou wellwishers
The Editor Sir, On behalf of my wife Olive, our sons Clayton, Craig and Jamie, we wish to express our thanks, gratitude, and sincere appreciation for the many tributes, concerts, and support afforded us during...
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Thank you, Independent Schools Association
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Words split performers, police
Performers say although they may use curse words when performing it is an expression of self and their surroundings. The police, however, say art or not, using profanity is against the law.
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Stately process to official functions
Dancehall, the business edition
A little R-E-S-P-E-C-T, please
Don Yute returns from rap
Fashion stuck on the runway
Industry trips up on marketing
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Beauty from ashes - Images from a battle zone
Spanish Town, the home of warring gangs, political factions and a violence-riddled past, nurtured him. He survived the bullets, but his art has haunting images of lives lost and the emptiness of broken dreams.
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Nine awarded IOJ Musgrave medals for '06
Lion on the rock
Book review - Bringing two sides to life
JUXTAPOSITION Imposing a relationship - Conveying a concept
Ernest Palmer's dream
'Nicky'
Slavery and Ethnicities in the Americas
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Heaven's journey
Fifty-five-year-old Lyden Trevor Heaven will today demit office as president of the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers' Association (JGRA), a post which has propelled him to national attention.
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A work of art
Old fire stick ...
Drugs and endless sex
Get out of your comfort zone!
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Creativity and productivity: making growth work
Productivity Week allows us the opportunity to look beyond the firm-based measures of labour productivity to broader and newer issues of development, and indeed, to a new economy.
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Lock up repeat offenders for life
The Jamaican language issue - Part 1
Role of government in the national plan
Three cheers for freedom
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It was Destination Maco!
WESTERN BUREAU: The thousands of lights that embroider the city of Montego Bay at night gave a fitting backdrop to the scene at the exclusive Silent Waters Villa on Saturday, September 9, as Maco Caribbean celebrated the birth of its latest...
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The Ritz again for Pineapple Ball
Hedo III's seventh birthday
TVJ's ER to debut in UK
His Lordship visits Jamaica
NDTC - signal event in Carifesta IX
Hilton helps St Alban's
Scholars fêted
Caribworld comes to Jamaica
A time to remember
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