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'Ready for the world' - Prime Minister of Jamaica hails preparations for cricket tournament
Jamaica is ready for the world, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said last night as she hailed preparations for the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC), where the first ball will be bowled this morning, when the West Indies play Kenya in a warm-up match...
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 Nation urged to 'bat for peace'
Police transfers take effect today
Sewage used to put out gas station fire
Items banned from cricket venues
Sexy Sabina struts on stage
On her way to Broadway
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When the boy is the victim (Pt I) 
The cases of girls being sexually molested or raped by their stepfather are many, and the causes and consequences of such actions have been discussed and debated at length. Some of the victims' mothers, especially those who ignored their daughter's plight...
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A Time to Live - Jamaican Birth Rituals
Golding cites reparation roadblocks
Debt ceiling raised again
Screwworm programme chalks up $1b price tag
What are you really eating?
JPS ready for CWC
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Manchester businessmen against sharing fingerprint database 
Walderston, Manchester:The Manchester Chamber of Commerce does not support recent calls from Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) president Mark Myers and Deputy Commissioner of Police Charles Scarlett that the fingerprint database...
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1,800 tolose jobs at Iberostar worksite
Vendors threaten to disrupt World Cup
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Final tune-up begins - West Indies face Kenya in warm-up match today 
Warm-up matches are not the same as the real thing, and because of that, and except the home team lose, not many cricket fans will be too concerned about what happens at the brand new Trelawny Multi-Purpose Stadium today where the West Indies and Kenya begin...
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Lara: We can take the title
Kemp, Gibbs suffer injury scare ahead of Irish warm-up
Reno win 1-0
Bitter twist for suffering Hammers
Gallant Jamaica beaten 26-12 in rugby friendly
British get record haulat indoor champs
England's pacers battling for places
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EDITORIAL - Official corruption still rife
Last March, when Mrs. Simpson Miller took the oath of office as Prime Minister of Jamaica, she made a fight against corruption a central theme of her speech and suggested that this would be a crusade of her administration.
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The second Spanish invasion
Who owes us what?
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LETTER OF THE DAY - Visitor robbed by police in highway 'speed trap'
The Editor, Sir: During my recent visit to Jamaica, I was stopped on the highway by Jamaican police who extorted money from me, under the guise ofa "speed trap". It occurred during midday on the main highway between Montego Bay and Negril, on Sunday, February 25.
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Do 'poorest of the poor' have rights?
Exploiting the culture
International student conference
Air Jamaica questions
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Jamaica Carnival welcomes locals, visitors 
WESTERN BUREAU: Carnival revellers rumbled in The Jungle along Norman Manley Boulevard last Friday night into the wee hours of Saturday morning, and even when the carnival was over, many patrons expressed regret. It was the annual staging of the Supreme Ventures...
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'Wild Hogs' takes easy ride to box office summit
Soca fever at 'Slips'
Music with heart from Bunny Rugs
Something extra
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WOMEN 'ROC' 
On March 8, 24 years ago the Women Resource Outreach Centre (WROC) was born. Its birth was propelled by the need to support women at a time when things were very hard. "It came out of the Committee of Women for Progress. It had a political and advocacy agenda...
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Rural women producers
Newest wave in marketing
Women's Summit for Int'l Women's Day
MONEY WISE - Jamaica National: Facilitating financially independent women
My father and me
Meet Flair's guest editors
Let's really big up our women
Women and the law
Unbounded optimism
My style
Lady Gladys Bustamante - 95 and going strong
Building, strengthening your savings habit
First ladies: where are they now?
Will you marry me? She proposed and he said yes!
REACHING FOR JOY - Attaining spiritual health
Female drivers get more for their money
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No more land for Stanford 
ST. JOHN'S (CMC): Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has rejected an apology offered by Texan billionaire Allen Stanford over recent comments Stanford made about the country's leader. "I ... totally reject that cunning attempt at an apology," Spencer...
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Poverty trending upin region - Jagdeo
Bahamas,US in anti-drug war
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IRAQ: Wider crackdown looms - cabinet reshuffle on the cards 
BAGHDAD (Reuters): Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki yesterday told insurgents fighting his United States-backed government to accept an olive branch or face a security crackdown that will cover "every inch" of Iraq. The U.S. military said it was preparing to set up...
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50 yearsof joy and pain
Rats love Big Apple
Rubbers slippery matter for men
Defence budget soars, US concerned
Kremlin sidelines critics in elections
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Kiwi Bond focused on wickets, not pace 
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond said he is ready to sacrifice pace for accuracy and wickets in his bid to win the Cricket World Cup.The spearhead of the Black Caps' attack was once the fastest man in the world...
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South Africa coach unfazed by Warne's prediction
Doctrove hoping to inspire regional umpires
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