Sunday, November 08, 2009 2:37 PM

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Money small but PATH a means of survival

Mother of two and PATH recipient Charmaine Watson, talks with another PATH beneficiary while they wait to collect their cheques at the Hagley Park Road post office in St Andrew. (Photo: Nadine Wilson)

STANDING in a long line in the boiling sun in full view of passers-by once every two months to collect a cheque valued between $1,300 and about $7,000 might seem like a whole lot of trouble, but for a number of women in Jamaica, it is the means of survival....more

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Adams wants to be top cop

Sunday, November 08, 2009

COLOURFUL retired senior superintendent of police Reneto Adams has confirmed he plans to apply for the job of police commissioner to succeed Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin....more

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St Mary Central needs training and employment opportunities

Sunday, November 08, 2009

IT is only mid-morning but already Donald Williams is sweating profusely and it has nothing to do with the sun peeping through the clouds hanging over the bustling Port Maria town in St Mary....more

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We are Jamaicans... Not PNP or JLP

Sunday, November 08, 2009

WHETHER you voted or not, your member of parliament is there to serve you....more

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Guy spends $3 million of CDF on education

Sunday, November 08, 2009

MEMBER of Parliament for St Mary Central Dr Morais Guy says he is committed to advancing education in his constituency and as such, the development of human capital is one of his biggest priorities....more

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What the private investigator said he found at Hedonism

Sunday, November 08, 2009

A private investigator and former FBI agent alleged he had seen open drug abuse, prostitution, distribution of marijuana and "numerous acts of lewd and lascivious behaviour" at John Issa's Hedonism hotel....more

Front pew with Pastor Beverley Brown

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Name: Beverley Brown Church: Halifax Good News Release Centre Location: Halifax, Manchester Membership: 500 Marital status: Unmarried, no children Number of years as a pastor: More than 35...more

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'The overseer' mothers hundreds

Sunday, November 08, 2009

LUCIA Rosetta Howe will never know what it is like to give birth to a child, but she has, over the past 50 years, single-handedly raised more than 200 children from her May Pen, Clarendon, home....more

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New chief education officer appointed

Sunday, November 08, 2009

EDUCATOR Grace McLean has been appointed the new chief education officer in the Ministry of Education....more

Vendors, beware

Sunday, November 08, 2009

HEAD of the Clarendon Police Divison, Superintendent Dayton Henry, has said vendors who sell to students items bearing violent messages should face harsher penalties under the law....more

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Thwaites says Charter language too complex

Sunday, November 08, 2009

PARLIAMENT last week continued its deliberations on the new Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms which will replace Chapter III of the present constitution....more

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Sporadic PAAC meetings spark concerns

Sunday, November 08, 2009

CONCERNS were this week raised over the pace at which the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) of Parliament has been moving....more

Spain works to free 33 crew held by Somali pirates

Sunday, November 08, 2009

BERMEO, Spain (AP) - Spain said yesterday it is working to free 33 crew members of a fishing vessel held by Somali pirates as thousands of friends and relatives rallied for their release....more

West Africa's last giraffes make surprise comeback

Sunday, November 08, 2009

KOURE, Niger (AP) - A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil....more

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AFP reporter released by Iranian authorities

Sunday, November 08, 2009

TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) - AFP confirmed on Saturday the release of its Tehran reporter Farhad Pouladi, who had been arrested earlier in the week, saying he had returned to his home....more

US 'mastermind' behind arson attacks

Sunday, November 08, 2009

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged....more

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