No, Bruce - Experts say September deadline for ethanol use impractical
GAS STATION stakeholders yesterday labelled as unrealistic a government decision, announced by Prime Minister Bruce Golding, to make it mandatory for motor-vehicle fuel to include 10 per cent ethanol by next month. Golding made the announcement on Sunday while addressing...

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Jamaica team set to mine medals in Beijing
The lucky #8
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WHAT'S RIGHT WITH JAMAICA - So many blessings for this small country
Tuesdaytalk
Fight on for PNP vice-president posts
ROVING WITH LALAH FEEDBACK
Petersfield Sunset Healing Mountain

Running with champions
"Don't be afraid to succeed." Jeffrey Gordon drilled those words into Shelly-Ann Fraser's head for three years, while she was a student at Wolmer's High School for Girls, and still does so today. Back when the drilling began, Fraser was a talented but unfocused...

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Who is Shelly-Ann Fraser?
Tennis sensations aim to conquer 2012 Olympics
Amnesty for motorists with outstanding warrants
National Blood Transfusion Service gets $250,000 donation
Bolt's Sherwood on 'gold alert'
Woodford snatches top community award
National honouree driven by recognition
Mayor threatens sporting facilities lockdown

Kicking off his Sandals
Gordon 'Butch' Stewart is considered, by some, to be Jamaica's most powerful man. The one-time air conditioner salesman, Jamaica's answer to Britain's Richard Branson, is on track to become the Caribbean's first homegrown billionaire. Stewart, the country's largest employer...

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Shipping industry has vital role in Jamaica's development plan
British Airways close to deal with American Airlines
Big Oil's biggest quarter ever, profits top US$51b

RATIFIED - IAAF certifies Bolt's 100-metre world record
MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP): Usain Bolt's 100-metre world record was ratified yesterday by the Inter-national Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The Jamaican sprinter ran the 100 in 9.72 seconds on May 31 in New York, breaking Asafa Powell's...

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Hue, Kelly recalled
Jamaica move into quarters
Wilmot, Phillips emerge overall champions
Weeding out the cheats - Dopers caught before they get to Olympics
Pietersen appointed England captain
Local 'ballers surrender lead - Draw hands Haiti group honours
Alpart make light work of champions
Tiger on the mend
T&T cruise into semi-final

EDITORIAL - Getting more from our bananas
It is not the first time that such an initiative has been announced, but in the past, it has been merely that - an announcement. We hope that, this time, there is serious and significant follow-on from the campaign, formally launched at the Denbigh Agricultural Show...

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The complexity of crime and money
NOTE-WORTHY

LETTER OF THE DAY - How about a million-dollar crime plan competition?
The Editor, Sir: With the protracted and increasing levels of crime in Jamaica today, solutions are being sought left, right, centre, far and wide. Some of the proposals being put forward have been shot down (no pun intended), while some have not even been given the chance....

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Parent's view on auxiliary fees
PM's remarks are 'insulting'
Correction
Exemplary policemen
School managers not the villains
'Truth will set us free'
JFJ et al doing great work
Someone should apologise to teachers
Lovely article
Call for animal feed subsidy

Perfect - Song for the times
THE HOMICIDE figures for May (nearly 200 murders) startled many Jamaicans, even those who have become accustomed to years of horrifying statistics. Among the shocked was singer Mr Perfect. So shocked that he wrote Sweet Jamaica which was recorded in June...

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Kumina, still on NDTC's roster
SOMETHING EXTRA
Jamaica's Olympic tradition
Christopher Gonzalez ...Brilliance amid controversy
Freeman seriously hurt in accident
Jamaica National staff fêtêd

Passport cards popular for travel
WASHINGTON, DC (CMC): The United States Department of State says a new passport card, designed to expedite travel to the Caribbean, Canada and Mexico, is proving to be very popular.The department said over 350,000 Americans have pre-ordered ...

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AIDS warning for Caribbean countries
Enviro group against geothermal contract
Putin calls for restoring influence in Cuba

'Rioters' kill 16 policemen
BEIJING (AP): Two men rammed a dump truck into a group of jogging policemen and then tossed explosives into their barracks yesterday, killing 16 officers and wounding others in China's restive Central Asian border province, the state-run Xinhua ...

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Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
Clinton says nutrition key in AIDS fight
Bush signs bill to settle Libyan lawsuits
Brazil Courts, military question Amazon land policy