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‘Jacket’ babies compromise family medical histories, warns Tufton
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‘Jacket’ babies compromise family medical histories, warns Tufton
May 13 12:45 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — With research suggesting that up to one in four Jamaican children are routinely “given” to the wrong father, with such children co...
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Jamaica marks IMO milestone with focus on women in maritime
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Jamaica marks IMO milestone with focus on women in maritime
May 13 12:42 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica —Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Energy, Transport and Telecommunications Kedesha Rochester, has underscored Jamaica’s commit...
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Bartlett calls on Caricom to prioritise tourism as region’s largest economic activity
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Bartlett calls on Caricom to prioritise tourism as region’s largest economic activity
May 13 12:05 PM
ST JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda — Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism  Edmund Bartlett has issued a call to action to the Caribbean Community (Caricom), urgi...
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Jamaica regressing on logistics hub development, says Hylton
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Jamaica regressing on logistics hub development, says Hylton
May 13 11:58 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica has gone backwards in its development of a logistics hub, according to Opposition Spokesperson on Trade, Industry and Glob...
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Powerful Women and Men Perform for Charity returns in first post-COVID show
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Powerful Women and Men Perform for Charity returns in first post-COVID show
May 13 11:26 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — House Speaker Juliet Holness will make her grand return to the stage, while Opposition Leader Mark Golding and Minister of Tourism...
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New trial ordered for US lawyer convicted of murdering wife, son
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New trial ordered for US lawyer convicted of murdering wife, son
May 13 11:11 AM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A United States (US) court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a prominent lawyer serving a life sentence for ...
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Community newspaper executive Marva Brodie is dead
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Community newspaper executive Marva Brodie is dead
May 13 11:09 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Marva Brodie, co-founder and director of the community newspaper, The News (originally Boulevard News), died from a heart attack a...
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Trinidad PM says country will not recognise Barnett as Caricom secretary general after August
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Trinidad PM says country will not recognise Barnett as Caricom secretary general after August
May 13 10:40 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the country will not recognise Dr Carla Barnett as the ...
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The Church has turned its back on its gay flock
June 26, 2013
Mark Wignall IN Jamaica, where closeted gays experience the dual trauma of living a lie alongside the fears of discovery; while those who are obviousl...
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Duppy told man
June 22, 2013
Crimes that Rocked the Nation THE year was 1962. It was the year that many Jamaicans were thinking about the enormity of what an independent Jamaica w...
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The politics of the growth agenda in Jamaica
MARK WIGNALL 
June 19, 2013
In the 1950s, when 17-year-old Lloyd Cole sailed on a banana boat from Kingston on the two-week trip to the English port of Southampton, 10 stowaways ...
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Teaching in the kennel
MARK WIGNALL 
June 8, 2013
As a child I attended a little 'infant' school in Moneague run by an excessively sweet lady, Mrs Winnifred Campbell, then known, before she was marrie...
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Arsonist husband watched as flames gut house with wife, infant daughters
May 11, 2013
Crimes that Rocked the Nation HE had planned to leave his young, attractive, 22-year-old wife Ena and their two young daughters Lacy, two, Renee, one,...
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I support ‘Buy Jamaica’, but…
May 8, 2013
In 1976, my then wife and I walked into a little appliance store on Orange Street and purchased a brand new 10 cu ft Servewell 'frost-free' refrigerat...
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Four types of women
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Four types of women
Tony Robinson 
May 4, 2013
Daddy Oh Women are soft, mild, Pitiful and flexible, Thou stern, obdurate, flinty Rough, remorseless. — Shakespeare, 3 Henry, VI, 1, 4 THEY say that v...
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Businessman beheaded, hands chopped off with ‘unfathomable, unspeakable savagery’
CMRC, News, Sports
Businessman beheaded, hands chopped off with ‘unfathomable, unspeakable savagery’
May 4, 2013
Crimes that Rocked the Nation DARK CLOUDS discolouring the skies on the morning of October 23, 1993 should have been an omen for what was to come late...
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Girl, 6, strangled to death, mother bludgeoned, but murderer not found
CMRC, News, Sports
Girl, 6, strangled to death, mother bludgeoned, but murderer not found
April 27, 2013
Crimes that Rocked the Nation WHAT could a six-year-old girl child have done so terrible that a grown man or woman could strangle her to death while s...
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CMRC, Sports
Say I love you
April 27, 2013
She will die, If he love her not; And she will die, Ere she makes her love known. — Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, 11, 3 She will also die if he...
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CMRC, Columns, Sports
Are the times too challenging for the PM?
April 24, 2013
In this age of rapid advancement in robotics and nanoscience, as applied to machinery and humans, change as an accepted philosophy of political govern...
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CMRC, Entertainment, Sports
Sexual timing
April 20, 2013
Make use of time; let not advantage slip, Beauty within itself should not be wasted. Fair flowers that are not gathered in their prime Rot and consume...
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What makes you a political diehard
CMRC, Columns, Sports
What makes you a political diehard
MARK WIGNALL 
April 13, 2013
When rabid religionists criticise so-called atheistic and very brutal regimes like Stalin in what was then the USSR, the Khmer Rouge's Pol Pot, Mao in...
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CMRC, Lifestyle, Local Lifestyle, ...
Temptation
With Tony Robinson 
April 13, 2013
Daddy Oh Your charm so strongly works 'em, That if you now beheld them, Your affections Would become tender. — Shakespeare, The Tempest, V, 1 Charm an...
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CMRC, News, Sports
A really good woman
April 6, 2013
She's beautiful And therefore to be woo'd; She is woman, Therefore to be won. -- Shakespeare, 1 Henry, VI,V,3 Men will always go after women, woo them...
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Night of horror for farmer, girlfriend who were abducted, shot and burnt
CMRC, News, Sports
Night of horror for farmer, girlfriend who were abducted, shot and burnt
April 6, 2013
Crimes that Rocked the Nation A traumatised girlfriend recounted for the Home Circuit Court a tale of horror on the night of May 15, 1983 when she and...
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Auto, CMRC, Sports
JA racers hit with woes
November 17, 2011
IT was not perfect picture for Jamaican contingent in the third-and-final leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) at the South Dakota R...
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CMRC, Sports
Doug’s Audi Takes Guyanese Track Record
November 12, 2011
Doug Gore and his famed Audi TT DTM travelled far and wide to the East Bank of the Demarara in Guyana and demolished the South Dakota racing circuit t...
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Reggae Racers Pilot South Dakota
Kesi Asher | Paginator 
November 11, 2011
The Reggae Racers had a productive day of testing on Friday, despite some members of the team receiving their vehicles late from the containers. David...
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Reggae Racers off to Guyana for CMRC final leg
November 10, 2011
UPBEAT and eager, Jamaica's Reggae Racers left on Wednesday for the final leg of the 2011 Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) to be held in Guy...
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Controversial CMRC night race to be re-run
Kesi Asher | Paginator 
September 8, 2011
Jamaica wants results to stand THE Barbados Auto Racing League (BARL) has said that the controversial Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) race...
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Controversy reigns in Barbados
September 1, 2011
Muddy conditions, dangerous night race mar CMRC meet CONTROVERSY surrounded the final Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) race in Barbados, wh...
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