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SQUATTING EPIDEMIC - Enforcement unit yet to be implemented
AFTER YEARS of talk and official consultation, Government's squatter management unit is still not off the ground. In the meantime, squatting has grown into an epidemic which state and private land owners are finding difficult to manage.
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Squatting in Montego Bay ... horrific past, hopeful future
JLP split over candidate for East Westmoreland - By-election could be held in May
Shaw to ask about Air J in budget talks this week
PMI helps cut murder
Budget restrains Government expenditure
Pursuing new growth strategies (Part1)
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News
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Positive budget
"FROM AN investor's standpoint, this is a positive budget," says Jermaine Burrell, investment analyst at Jamaica Money Market Brokers (JMMB) Limited. He is one of several investment analysts, who give a high score for the first budgetary estimates...
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Foreign policy partners
Inner-city housing - High risk or giveaway?
NCB deepens linkages with Jamaican Diaspora in UK
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Business
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EASTER MONEY!
IT'S EASTER - a solemn and sobering season. And while we do not want to detract from the solemnity of the Lenten season, perhaps, now is the time to resurrect your finances as the Government prepares to outline how it proposes to finance...
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Securities market - Greater depth of products needed
'Fantastic' reception for Digicel in Trinidad
Island Networks speeds up traffic
Commentary - Caribbean struggles to find its niche in new world order
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Sport
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Small wins discus gold
JAMAICA College's Sharif Small won Jamaica's first gold medal as the three-day Carifta Games began in Guadeloupe yesterday. Small threw the discus 51.16 metres to win the Under-20 event ahead of Tyrone Benjamin of Dominica (49.95m)...
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Chelsea move closer to title
Give back the drama of play-offs to football
Tough day at trials
Classy Miracle Man wins Legal Light Trophy
Under-15s stretch streak
Barbados take control
Harbour View look to salvage some pride
KIDS Golf tourney launched
Commentary - Spin encouragement for Windies selectors
Kiwis put SA on the backfoot
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Commentary
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Editorial - Few surprises in Budget estimates
THE $358 BILLION Budget tabled in the House last Wednesday by Finance Minister Davies contained few surprises. The proposed Budget is $12-billion or 3.5 per cent more than the previous one.
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The writing is on the wall - Equipping citizens for life
Black Jesus
Globalisation and the cross
Emigrés with water guns
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Letters
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Letter of the day - How to create a crisis
THE EDITOR, Sir: HOW IS it that in a country like Jamaica where religion plays such a central role in the lives of most citizens, the suggestion of our new Prime Minister to have members of the religious community serve on state boards has become...
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Living as a nation under God
Diaspora wants to vote
No to Thai prostitution model
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Entertainment
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GIVE PEACE SONGS A CHANCE
PAUSE AND try to think of how many songs promoting peace you know every word of. It's been 10 minutes and you have only come up with one, maybe.
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Barn closes on 'haydays'
Movement, music for Pansy Hassan
Missed flight lands designer on Chicago runway
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Arts &Leisure
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Consider the lilies of the field ...
SYMBOLISING PURITY and faith, lilies are one of the oldest recorded flowers in history. Pictures of these striking blooms were discovered dating as far back as 1580 BC.
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'Visions' of beauty
Man appint, God disappint
Book review - Entertaining, gripping love story
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Outlook
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THE BRAINY HUNTER
NEUROSURGEON AND chief resident at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Dr. Roger Eyon Hunter was a recent recipient of the prestigious Braakman Diploma and prize by the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS).
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Outlook Youth - Are we ready for the workplace?
Training men to treat you right (Part 2)
Doctor's Advice - All in the family
Trekking through the Delta
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In Focus
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Innocence lost - The church at Easter
IT IS not only Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller who should gauge carefully the negative reactions and cautions about her promotion of Christianity. The church had better take careful notes, too.
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Impact of family structure on children
Licensing the Jamaican penis
A formula for Government: franchising development services
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Social
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Dressed to impress
Last Wednesday, it was once again time for Parliamentarians to don their finery and step out in style for the ceremonial opening of the new year.
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Clay shoot - a breeze!
Six years of KIDS
Belafonte to shoot scenes for his documentary in Jamaica
Weekend Swirl
Adieu, Edith Jarbeau!
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Auto
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Scion's FUSE - The next big thing?
SCION'S ALL-NEW sports coupe, the FUSE, debuted last week in New York in the Javits Convention Centre. On display this time around was a sporty technological marvel that surely costs more than any of the six other Scions.
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Easter carnival at Dover
Pointers on choosing a good used car
2007 Outlander SUV - On the edge of versatility
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