Lead Stories
'Not now Portia' - Prime Minister approves portion of 'fix-it' funding

WESTERN BUREAU: THE US$20 million that tourism minister Portia Simpson-Miller was seeking to help repair the country's image overseas following the negative publicity generated from the West Kingston violence cannot be met immediately, according to...

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Nurse receives G-G award
Case against 800 warders being heard - Knight to testify for the prosecution
DPP to rule on wire-tapping this week
Mitchell pursues stay of execution
Alvin Henry retires

News
FBI seeks MoBay 'businessman'

WESTERN BUREAU: AN AMERICAN national, Paul Ronald Wick, who operated a telemarketing company in the Montego Bay Free Zone, is being sought by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for fraud in the United States and Jamaica.

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Kgn photographers ready for 'Ochie'
Private school may be shut down
Half-dressed body upsets deceased's family
Death row inmates get parole eligibility

Business
Barclays and CIBC look to combine Caribbean operations

BARCLAYS AND CIBC announce that they are in advanced discussions which are intended to lead to the combination of their retail, corporate and offshore banking operations in the Caribbean to create FirstCaribean International Bank.

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Centennial strikes alliance with JLC

Sport
Smith shines at CAC

DECATHLETE Maurice Smith was the toast of Jamaica's Central American and Caribbean Senior Championships track and field team which returned to the island yesterday after a successful sojourn in Guatemala. Smith, a former Calabar High student...

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Hyatt gets first 100 of trials
Hamilton: CTL needs quick cash
Well said, Hooper - well played, West Indies
Croft hails Hooper

Commentary
The Washington envoy
GOVERNMENT HAS yet to deny or confirm persistent media reports that Deputy Prime Minister Seymour Mullings is tipped to replace Dr. Richard Bernal as Ambassador to Washington. In response to queries by The Gleaner, Information Minister, Maxine...

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Trauma alleviation policy needed
GSAT fails to score properly
Globalisation and anarchy

Letters
Letter of the Day - Distorted by fear
THE EDITOR, Sir: I AM saddened by a letter I read in today's Gleaner. (July 21) written by Cesar B. Lewis, "On schooling children with HIV/AIDS", in which the author strongly objects to the Ministry of Education's reported directive that "children...

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Putting Jamaica first
Ritz Carlton Hotel and the PM's office
Morally disenfranchised by national politics
Of flesh and Spirit
Crime and the JPSCo

Entertainment
21 chosen for Miss Jamaica World 2001

Tradition was broken on Sunday night, instead of sashing 20 contestants to vie for the title of Miss Jamaica World in September, 21 gorgeous and beautiful ladies were sashed. The 21 ladies were sashed after 15 were chosen from a field of 44 ladies and...

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The Rumjungle... was musically hot

Youth Link
The twin-credible St. Hugh's high school

NO, THERE is nothing wrong with your eyes, these five sets of twins are members of the 2001 graduating class of St Hugh's High school, Kingston.

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Millsy's Mind - I want to vote the illusion of choice for generation f
Reagan is unstoppable
Dear counsellor: I think I am pregnant
Summer love a modern teenage love story part 2

Star Page
Miss May gave up hairdressing for vending

TWENTY years ago 50-year-old Peggy Graham decided to leave her profession as a hairdresser to become a vendor. "It wasn't working out. You don't make back your money right away. People come into your shop and you do their hair and they get up and tell...

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