Reactive - Human rights group says legislation won't guarantee catching criminals
One of Jamaica's human rights groups yesterday described the Government's new anti-crime plan as reactive, saying it neglects how to ensure that criminals are caught."All of these legislation kick in after the person has been caught," said Yvonne McCalla Sobers, convenor....

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School extortion - PM chides institutions for attempting to make auxiliary fees mandatory
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Jamaicans find work in Turks and Caicos
Mentors wanted
Robbery at sea possible reason for fishermen's disappearance
One in four - Survey shows a quarter of all students likely to carry illegal weapons
PNP to announce whether EOJ will conduct party polls
Sts Peter and Paul seeking new computers
Developers seek advice on replacing stolen sand

Taylor urges police not to discriminate
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine: Sociologist and senior lecturer at the University of the West Indies Dr Orville Taylor told a graduating class at the Jamaica Police Academy that they need to expose good principles and not continue as slave for the plantocracy that still exists in Jamaica...

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Getting fishermen off the hook
SportsMax deal above board - Rousseau
12-year-old needs help to fix tumour
More HIV positive women choose to have babies
Lessons from Seabiscuit (Part 5) - Your best is yet to come
Danny Buchanan's son loses poll in SW St Elizabeth

GraceKennedy creating $2b distribution hub
GraceKennedy Limited, the big Jamaican conglomerate, is constructing a J$2-billion facility off the Spanish Town bypass in St Catherine that will bring a large segment of its food distribution and cold storage into a single complex, senior officials confirmed...

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Sandals, C&WJamaica ink $500m deal
CL Financial creates holding company for Lascelles shares
JPS, Petrojam to build $21b petcoke plant
Caribbean sugar production falters - Volumes, exports down in current year
Region to fight erosion of trade preferences
America Movil shares fall
Airline losses climb, thousands of jobs to go
Good manners at work

Sweet victory for Asafa
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP): Asafa Powell capi-talised on Usain Bolt's weak start and edged the world-record holder by one-hundredth of a second, leading from start to finish in the 100 metres at the DN Galan meet yesterday. Powell, the former world-record holder, won...

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'Everybody has a season' - Dad glad Asafa is regaining composure
Pick-9 fever to intensify
Calder double for Henry
Gayle heads five Jamaicans in Superstars squad
Stanford talks tough as sponsorship row looms
Two in a row for Sunshine Girls
Track trio to attend Hampton U
Frenchman wins Tour's 16th stage

EDITORIAL - This is all disingenuous, Minister Mullings
We carry no brief for Kern Spencer, with whom we expect the law to deal justly. But justice must not only be done, but seen to be done - in its fullest sense. Which is why we find peculiar the statements by Energy Minister Clive Mullings, and Director of Public Prosecutions...

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The Prophet, and now
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LETTER OF THE DAY - Institute hails UWI on 60th anniversary
The Editor, Sir: The Institute of Jamaica has hailed the University of the West Indies on attainment of its 60th anniversary in the following letter to Professor George Alleyne, Chancellor. Dear Sir George, Mindful of the historically close association...

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Car stealing in New Kingston
A letter to the prime minister
Leadership to the rescue
Some questions for David Smith
How to raise children
Market mess in Ochi
PNP and Bajan model

Riding the waves
The thorn-ridden black sands of the Makka Surfing Beach in Southhaven, St Thomas, came to life last Sunday as the crowd multiplied into the thousands to transform the beach into a dazzling theme park. People came from far and wide to witness the grand spectacle...

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Jamaicans take honours at film fest
'Pupalick' set to roll August 1

Lowe takes his anti-cancer ball moss to Germany
When the prestigious Ehrlich II 'magic bullets' conference opens in Nurnberg, Germany, in October, one of Jamaica's scientists, Dr Henry Lowe, is expected to be present to make known his anti-cancer/anti-inflammatory research on a local plant, known as ball moss...

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They are on holidays again!
It's time to floss
Ouch! My knee hurts - Response to reader's question
Rid us of Ganja, Guns, Gangs & Garrisons
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High-powered African group visits Trinidad
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): More than a year after Prime Minister Patrick Manning told African leaders that Trinidad and Tobago was prepared to provide technical aid to 10 select African, oil producing countries, a high-powered delegation has started...

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New strategy to combat HIV/AIDS
Carib tax officials meeting in Belize