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published: Sunday | August 24, 2008

Lead Stories


GREAT HAUL OF CHINA - Jamaica's record-breaking Olympic performance
JAMAICA ENDED a record-breaking medal performance at the 2008 Olympic Games with a bronze in the women's 4x400 metres on the final day of competition for the nation's athletes at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing yesterday.

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Soldiers salute Olympians
Clerics believe victories will prove motivating
Home sweet home - Jamaica-based training spares athletes drug taint, says Dennis Johnson
Sponsors needed to keep the momentum
Frater's father upset
PAJ forms chapter in central Jamaica
PSOJ Agenda - Public private partnership
Fraud - the ugly side of the Olympics

News


PNP strife looms in wake of Olympics
THE SPECTACULAR performance of Jamaica's athletes in Beijing, China, has caused a unity breeze to blow across the island that has seen strangers hugging in the middle of Half-Way Tree and traditional rivals crossing border lines in the tough Corporate Area community of Waterhouse. But the unity breeze seems to have had no effect on members of the People's National Party...

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Obama picks Biden as running mate
From the 'Fanstand' - Heartbreak and ecstasy
Gary Allen appointed RJR's managing director
Transport minister lambastes Sangster Int'l authorities
Jamaica seeks to strengthen ties with China
Vox Pop

Business


Yam's new market flavour - Olympics 'bolts' tuber on to world stage
Suddenly, Trelawny yam has vaulted, no bolted, on to the world stage as the food of champions, and in a satire that places it on a list of 'banned substances' that give an edge to athletes.

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Starved of web advertising - Internet businesses hurt by tradition
Offshore Jamaica vs offshore Trinidad - Let the Games begin!
Intel PCs to wake up for phone calls

Sport


Bronze tops off medal haul
IT ALL ended on an inauspicious note. The Jamaican men's 4x400 metres quartet finished at the back of the field in the final. No one, however, can deny that Beijing 2008 was a great Olympic Games for Jamaica.

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Amazing Bolt, magnificent Jamaica
Victorious Jamaica women's team returns home
Walker rides four winners at Caymanas
Melbourne, St Catherine CC qualify for quarters
IAAF boss praises Jamaica's performance
Long-distance double for Bekele of Ethiopia
US outclass Aussies in basketball
Fulham shock the Gunners
MIND YOUR BUSINESS

Commentary


EDITORIAL - Rogge's bolt from the blue
Today, when he formally closes the Beijing games, Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), will offer the obligatory congratulations to the hosts and perhaps herald these as "the greatest games ever"...

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PUBLIC AFFAIRS - Prejudice in Jamaican politics
'Yeh mon' from China
Champions and 'Olympocrites'!
When elephants fight

Letters


LETTER OF THE DAY - Not one-dimensional achievers
The Editor, Sir: Jamaicans at home and abroad are feeling proud of our athletes in Beijing and feeling proud to be Jamaicans at this time. I, too, am basking in the glory and proud to be Jamaican, but this is not a new feeling for me.

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The soft side of bigotry
The PM misspoke ... somewhat

Entertainment


'Saving Grace' relocates dancehall
After years of hearing about the negatives associated with dancehall music, Orville Matherson yearned for the day when foreigners would get to see the brighter side of reggae's outrageous offspring. The New York-based actor/director has got his chance with Saving Grace, a low-budget film currently in production.

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Dancer handles triple roles
'Cracking Up' is serious business
Jamaican performances cut short - Artistes do full-length shows overseas
THE VOICE: Michelle Williams - Positive about destiny

Arts &Leisure


I sane ... We sane ... Usain
Yuh ever see anything like this before?, XXIX Olympiad has become instant folklore, All debate has been decided, The dust has finally settled, The doubters have been answered, And it's Usain Bolt by a canter...

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Designing life
Literary Arts - Hurricane soldiers
Usain Bolt and Mi Marriage
Book Review - A whipping tale

Outlook


Donnette Mmere - Daring to dream
Ten years ago Donnette Mmere was a payments supervisor at the Bank of Jamaica. Today, the banker-turned-educator is prospecting for a golden dream elsewhere, as she seeks to create a state-of-the-art learning institution in Portmore, St Catherine.

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Ionie Ramsay-Nelson - sports enthusiast
Single in the city - Invest in yourself
Doctor's advice - she will not agree to his demands
Lessons from the '08 Olympics

In Focus


'Gully creepers' dominate Beijing
On the weekend that the Jamaican spirit was bolted to the stratosphere, we murdered almost 20 persons. In the week that Bolt created Olympic history by winning both the 100m and 200m events in world-record time, the Planning Institute of Jamaica reported that economic performance slumped for the last quarter. That's the paradox called Jamaica. (Boyne)

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Jamaican-born and coached
Shock and awe in Beijing!
Sports and nation building
Gendered fender benders

Social


Long live patriotism!
In Jamaica's history, there have been far too few moments that have produced a groundswell of patriotism and the sense of pride that we have seen this past week. It has enveloped the nation, removing class and social barriers in an overwhelming sense of nationalism.

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Montegonians celebrate in golden style!
Lots of laughs at Cuddy'z

Auto


Flights of fancy
THINKING OF the term 'Station Wagon' doesn't really conjure up flights of fancy, does it? If one is a child of the sixties or seventies, vehicles like the Brasilia, the Volvo 240 people mover or the slew of American big irons that were available in that era come to mind. It is how older people did the SUV thing.

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Celebration at Palisadoes track
Protests threaten India's cheapest car project
ROAD TRIP - Of donkeys, land and men
Spain aviation chief wants glitch investigated


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