St Catherine taxi operator charged with murder
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St Catherine taxi operator charged with murder
January 11 04:45 PM
St CATHERINE, Jamaica – A St Catherine taxi operator has been charged with murder following the stabbing death of a man in Portmore, St Catherine on J...
Barca edge Real Madrid in thrilling Spanish Super Cup final
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Barca edge Real Madrid in thrilling Spanish Super Cup final
January 11 04:33 PM
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP)—Barcelona retained the Spanish Super Cup with a thrilling 3-2 Clasico win over Real Madrid in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. Raphi...
Natesha defends wifeys with ‘Louis V’
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Natesha defends wifeys with ‘Louis V’
January 11 04:19 PM
US-based dancehall artiste Natesha is one of those rare talents who proves with her latest release, Louis V , that modern-day female artistes don't al...

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National honours and colour prejudice
Michael Burke 
September 14, 2011
His Excellency the Honourable Usain Bolt, OJ, Ambassador-at-large, has apologised for the antics he did during the playing of Jamaica's National Anthe...
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Get soldiers to guard the Palisadoes Road project
MARK WIGNALL 
September 14, 2011
WANT to see a massive explosion? Line up the following. The Palisadoes road project (worth US$65.5 million) being carried out by China Harbour Enginee...
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Thoughts on Jamaica’s 50th anniversary
FRANKLIN W KNIGHT 
September 13, 2011
The approach of the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence provides an appropriate time to review and perhaps revise the way Jamaica is governed. T...
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Oral Tracey: Comedian or commentator?
September 13, 2011
WHEN Usain Bolt, in one of his playful modes at the recent World Championships in Daegu, peered into the television camera to send a message to TVJ's ...
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What is the Progressive Agenda?
Louis Moyston 
September 13, 2011
I have been following the emerging Progressive Agenda from seminal discussions to the final paper. I watched with great interest the deliveries from t...
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Colour me mad
Lloyd B Smith 
September 12, 2011
Now that I am the prospective candidate for the People's National Party in the new constituency of Central St James, I have had to revisit as well as ...
Columns
JTA batting on shaky grounds
KEN CHAPLIN 
September 12, 2011
It seems as if the leadership of the Jamaica Teachers' Association is returning to the days of the 1960s when it was strongly pro-PNP and became uncoo...
Columns
Too dumb for smart meters?
With Betty Ann Blaine 
September 12, 2011
HEART TO HEART Dear Reader, One gets the feeling that the Jamaica Public Service Company's monopoly goes beyond the generation and transmission of pow...
Columns
Separating truth from propaganda
Jean Lowrie-Chin 
September 11, 2011
Electoral Commission Chairman Prof Errol Miller has reminded us that last Wednesday, September 7, marked the first day of the final year of the curren...
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Automated machines can make Christians curse!
Christopher Burns 
September 11, 2011
I am almost certain you have had your own bad experiences since automated machines are everywhere; especially the voice-activated ones. And besides, t...
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I shall sing
James Moss-Solomon 
September 10, 2011
THE words of the popular song no longer bring up the face of the beautiful Marcia Griffiths. Today it brings up the picture of 'Dudus', complete with ...
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Race, riots and murder in Britain
DIANE ABBOTT 
September 10, 2011
KELSO Cochrane is an iconic figure in British race relations. Over 50 years ago, the young Antiguan was killed by a gang of white youths in Notting Hi...
Columns
Should the JLP apologise over Dudus?
MARK WIGNALL 
September 10, 2011
WIGNALL’S WORLD IN the aftermath of the Dudus guilty plea some of our people, in the PNP and outside of it, have been calling on the prime minister an...
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In need of political will to tackle crime in Jamaica
David Mullings 
September 10, 2011
ID: INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE JAMAICA has never been serious about tackling crime. At a fundraising event at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in 2005, Bruce Goldi...
Columns
Questionable diplomacy in Caricom
RICKEY SINGH 
September 10, 2011
Few WikiLeaks examples of 'foul play' OUR Caribbean region is currently also caught up in the global diplomatic hullabaloo over leaked messages involv...
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Too many Chinese workers: Is the response racist?
Sir Ronald Sanders 
September 10, 2011
CHINESE workers labour round the clock delivering projects on time and within budget, unlike workers in many other parts of the world. Yet, wherever t...
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End of the beginning in Libya
By Ernest Corea InDepth News Analysis 
September 10, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC (IDN) — "A period of transition? That's what Adam said to Eve," India's philosopher-president, the late Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, told ...
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Bolt and Blake – Whose fault?
By MERRICK NEEDHAM 
September 10, 2011
Perhaps the outcry over what might now almost be described as the Bolt, Blake Affair has reassured me that a lot of Jamaicans have more pride in their...
Columns
Jamaicans must think twice before voting
Mervin STODDART 
September 9, 2011
Jamaicans inherited relatively good parliamentary and sociopolitical standards from Great Britain on Independence in 1962 and the nation's early leade...
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Failing schools and a squabbling JTA
Raulston Nembhard 
September 9, 2011
Mr Paul Adams has begun his term as president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association in a very combative mode. His fight is not concerned with addressin...

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