Comrades lambaste Meeks
THE PEOPLE'S National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) has disparaged a recommendation in the Meeks' Report that the organisation be disbanded. The report was commissioned by the PNP after it lost the September 3, 2007, General Election to the Jamaica Labour Party....

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Confessions of a paedophile - Repentant child molester warns parents to beware
Donated organ changes teen's blood type
Best wishes, Dr Davis
'She gave up her life for us' - Mother testifies against gunmen, slain
List of Government consultants submitted
Primary schools falling below attendance targets
RJR Sports Foundation's 2007 Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year

Clinics to combat substance abuse
With some 187,000 Jamaicans addicted to various substances, the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) yesterday launched 10 community clinics for substance abusers and their families. The aim of the two-year pilot project is to operate a comprehensive intervention ...

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Male group on mission to reclaim wayward brothers
Christian Fellowship church honours 50
Agencies urged to treat inner cities better
Getting past your past
French rogue trader says bank turned a blind eye
New diabetic supplies added to NHF list
Linstead transport centre grounded

Angostura gets 65m Lascelles shares - Last-minute rush to take up offer
In a last-minute burst on Monday, Lascelles de Mercado's stock-holders offered upwards of 65 million of the company's ordinary shares to Angostura Ltd, in a strong, even if eleventh-hour, response to Angostura's bid to take over the Jamaican con-glomerate, analysts said yesterday...

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Trinidad governor warns of fallout from US recession
NCB officials get an earful - SMEs complain of high rates Bank says it has plans for the sector
Jackson expects strong market expansion this year
Housing policy being drafted
Scotiabank funds entrepreneurship development
Addressing workplace stress

Bulk of Reggae Boyz due Monday
The majority of Jamaica's overseas-based Reggae Boyz will arrive in the island on Sunday to join their local-based counterparts, as the Reggae Boyz continue their preparation to face Costa Rica's Los Ticos in a friendly international on Ash Wednesday,...

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Darby looking to make the best of senior call-up
Million for Milo Relays
Winning Message poised to deliver
Minnows get chance to enhance reputation
Fletcher, Strickland at Waterhouse
No 'bad blood'
The ICC setting a bad precedent in cricket
Singh's racial abuse charge downgraded
West Indies short - Sobers

EDITORIAL - National ID card and state security
Prime Minister Golding's plan for the registration of residents of Jamaica and the issuance of identification cards is an initiative with which few can quarrel. For, in the circumstance of Jamaica, it is a quite sensible idea over which we have dithered for far too many years.

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The balance of power
NOTE-WORTHY: Alter the rules

LETTER OF THE DAY - The primacy of ministers in gov't administration
The Editor, Sir: Carlton Davis has now brought his wealth of experience and good sense to bear on the issue involving differences between the prime minister and the Public Service Commission. He considers it a tragedy that the matter has not been handled properly.

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Isaac Barrant Airport?
Ross deserved the boos
Jamaicans need confidence
'To breed or not to breed'
Tragic death of a friend
Elderly men and teenagers
Destroying our children!

Comedy Fest 2008 a big buss
When guest comedic duo Ity and Fancy Cat took to the stage of the Courtleigh Auditorium last Sunday night as the final act many were surprised that the 2007 Comedy Buss winner Dwight Samuels and Christopher 'Johnny' Daley did not perform as scheduled at 'Comedy Fest 2008.'...

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Culture flows at 'Moulding Minds, Moving Bodies'
Opal Palmer Adisa suspends male 'Judgement'
Jackson remakes hit album 'Thriller'

BE WELL - There's beauty in ageing
Some men and women face ageing with fear at their sides. The arrival of the first strand of grey hair, for example, is greeted with dread and a deep feeling of loss (loss of youth); sometimes much effort and money is channelled into keeping the 'greys' black.

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I AM WHAT I THINK - Teachings of my elder friends and family
Letters - It's time to take a decision on abortion

HAITI - Poor forced to use dirt as food
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest cannot afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies....

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'Kenya leaders accountable'
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