Jamaica's first woman DPP - Paula Llewellyn creates history
Paula Llewellyn created legal history yesterday when she became the first woman in Jamaica to be appointed director of public prosecutions (DPP). The former senior deputy DPP succeeds Kent Pantry, QC, who retired last month at the age of 60, but who remained in the job until yesterday...

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Hundreds flock Youthlink CSEC technique seminars
Hundreds of students turned out on Monday and yesterday to participate in The Gleaner's Youthlink magazine seminars to help prepare them for regional examinations they will sit later this year. Many of the participants said that they found the sessions extremely useful...

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'EPA harmful' - Academics lobby for renegotiation of trade deal
A group of academics, while stopping short of labelling the trade pact an outright failure, are proposing that Cariforum renegotiate the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), saying it gives up too much to the Europeans in exchange for too little. ...

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RBTT jobs safe - No contraction from merger, says RBC
US$55m break-up fee binds RBTT for a year
AIC sells another 13 million NCB shares - Lee Chin sidesteps question on whether he would give up bank
New senior team at Jamaica Producers
Jeffrey Hall off JSE Disciplinary Committee - Bruce-Miller claims conflict of interest
Salada contemplates stock split - Says share price too expensive
The art of self-marketing - Selling yourself by letter

Boys' Town, Arnett lock horns today
THE SPOTLIGHT will be on Collie Smith Drive today when neighbours and rivals Boys' Town and Arnett Gardens go head-to-head in the Cash Plus Premier League. The Collie Smith clash will take place at 3:30 p.m., the same time as the match-up between August Town and St Georges....

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EDITORIAL - US elections and Caribbean concerns
Whoever emerges as the Democratic Party's nominee for America's presidency, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, can count on the overwhelming support of the Caribbean diaspora in the fall election. Blacks vote disproportionately for the Democrats and emigrants ...

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Guilty until proven innocent
NOTE-WORTHY - World peace

LETTER OF THE DAY - Call for new approach to crime problem
THE EDITOR, Sir: We have been fighting crime with the same weapons, using 'the mighty hand' for so many years. Yet we cannot solve the problem. I do not think it takes rocket science. I did not go to school and earn a master's degree in criminal matters but I know...

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Why males shun the classroom
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Oliver Samuels is main '07 'Actor Boy'
Oliver Samuels should be laughing all the way to the podium on Tuesday, March 25, when he will be honoured at the 2007 Actor Boy Awards.The 17th staging of the annual awards, put on by the Jamaican chapter of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), will be staged in three parts...

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Houston hits the stage again
Last call for Miss Jamaica Universe applications!
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Essential skills - Cut school violence Teach children emotional smartness
By age six, your child's young brain, the control centre for behaviour, may have been hard-wired to react in violent ways."It's based on the biological process ...what we know is that in the early years, the brain is laying down wires (and) this continues throughout early childhood...

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She contracted genital herpes
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