Gleaner Editors' Forum - Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to reform health - Promises to dismantle the Regional Health Authorities
General Secretary of the , Karl Samuda, says the party will dismantle the Regional Health Authorities (RHA) if it forms the next government. Speaking yesterday at a Gleaner Editors' Forum at the newspaper company's head office at North Street, central Kingston...

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Opposition will put an end tocorruption
Jamaica gets second gold
Prophecies relating to birth and babies
Mexican ambassador to visit
Cayman nationals missing in Montego Bay
Gleaner Editors' Forum - No 40-hr work week under JLP
Cops seek driver of stolen car
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has winning ads
Hottest topics on the cocktail circuits
CHANGEMAKER - John Issa: Years of service, many moments of change

Remembering a father's love
As far as I know there is only one person who has never missed a single edition of 'Roving with Lalah' since I started writing the feature almost two years ago. In fact, he saved a copy of every single article I've ever written. My dad would go around telling everyone he met...

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Gleaner awarded Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) honour
Advertising agencies honour Gleaner
POLITICAL AD WATCH - From the horse's mouth
Newsmaker: Bishop Herro Blair - Preaching political peace
People's National Party (PNP) caretaker charged
45 MILESTONES: 1998 - Jody-Anne won Scripps Howard Spelling Bee competition
Jamaica to brace for more deportees
More press pressure on Guyana Gov't
Man on murder charge offered bail
Ground broken for Linstead transport centre
Appeal Court head laments number of extrajudicial killings

Travel havoc in Brazil - Lula replaces defence minister
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday replaced his defense minister responsible for aviation safety after nearly a year of air chaos that intensified following the crash last week of a passenger jet that killed nearly 200....

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Broken pipes anger Trelawny residents
Price of UK visas increases

'Win record makes me very happy' - Ennis-London believes gold will spur teammates
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: National 100 metres hurdles champion Delloreen Ennis-London has described her victory at the Pan American Games as a good tune-up for next month's IAAF World Champion-ships in Japan. "I chose to come to the Pan Am Games...

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It's only 'mental' - Simpson's manager says sprinter didn't run freely in Monaco
Overwhelmed by gold - Decathlete Smith turns attention to World Champs
Spaldings aiming for daCosta Cup quarters
Jamaica in charge
Birthday boy Oral Bennett in big upset
Strikers crush Dragon
Davis granted work permit
Heated battle for spot in final
Leader Rasmussen sacked by his team
Big guns ready for Independence showdown

EDITORIAL -And now for a campaign of high quality
Now that His Excellency Professor Kenneth Hall, the Governor-General, has issued the proclamation dissolving Parliament, there is no turning back, but for exceptional circumstances. All things being equal, therefore, candidates contesting the 60seats...

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Reading the Turkish tea leaves
Stuck in the middle
NOTE-WORTHY - Ironic

LETTER OF THE DAY - Politics, deacons and 'the realities around us'
The Editor, Sir: The Archbishop of Kingston has yet again shown how distanced he is from the realities around us, by banning Deacon Ronnie Thwaites from preaching, as reported in your Saturday Gleaner. Were the goodly Deacon to have been banned because his sermons...

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The authority of the law
Leaders must be forthright
Election '07: The Church's role
Uptown eyesores

Second time around for CVM TV Port Royal Music Festival
On its inaugural staging in 2006, the Port Royal Music Festival was affected by the threat of a hurricane, and on Tuesday night Neville Blythe of the UGI Group said: "If it was not for the bad weather we would have had 10 times the number (of people)."

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NDTC celebrates with sponsors' night
'License to Wed' premieres at Carib 5 - Jamaican connection, but no blockbuster
Model search off with a bang
Madonna blasts female crew member - Comment on adopted son draws pop star's ire
Usher to marry pregnant fiancée this weekend
BET series 'Hot Ghetto Mess' to get new name
Mandela throws annual children's party

Cheesecake, anyone?
What makes everyone go oh la la, yummy? Cheesecake! Across the world, cheesecake has become quite a popular dessert; people just cannot seem to get enough of it. Once the plain cakes ruled, but cheesecake is quickly taking the topping off the cakes.

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CARNIVORE's delight
Jammin at breakfast time
Grenada - Ah coming again!
Jerk with a twist - Jerk Joy contestants show their stuff

Taliban say they killed Korean hostage
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters): Taliban kidnappers shot dead a South Korean hostage and threatened to kill 22 others unless their demands were met by 8:30 p.m. yesterday, a Taliban spokesman said. A local government official confirmed the death.

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Air chaos again, Lula fires Defence Minister
Southern Europe bakes in year's hottest weather
Oxford University escapes floods