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He won’t put a ring on it
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He won’t put a ring on it
Christopher Brodber 
December 22 12:03 AM
Counsellor, I’ve been with my gentleman for three years, and there’s been no movement towards anything serious from him. I started dating for marriage...
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5 things that will make you forget you’re still single this holiday season
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5 things that will make you forget you’re still single this holiday season
Marie BERBICK-BAILEY 
December 22 12:01 AM
5 things that will make you forget you’re still single this holiday season
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Melissa-ravaged Treasure Beach ambush Portmore in JPL return
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Melissa-ravaged Treasure Beach ambush Portmore in JPL return
December 21 08:47 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica – Treasure Beach made a winning return to action in the Jamaica Premier League on Sunday, ambushing Portmore United 2-0 at the S...
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JFJ moves to clarify position on decriminalising consensual sex among minors, close-in-age exemptions
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JFJ moves to clarify position on decriminalising consensual sex among minors, close-in-age exemptions
December 21 06:18 PM
Human rights group Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) has sought to clarify its recommendation to decriminalise consensual sex among minors, including its pr...
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Stony Hill teen on wounding rap after stabbing incident
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Stony Hill teen on wounding rap after stabbing incident
December 21 04:40 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 17-year-old student of Temple Heights district, Stony Hill, St Andrew, has been charged with wounding with intent following an i...
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St Catherine South police take steps to ease traffic congestion
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St Catherine South police take steps to ease traffic congestion
December 21 03:58 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica —St Catherine South police will be increasing their presence on roads to address the problem of traffic congestion, according to Ass...
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Nigerian government frees 130 kidnapped Catholic schoolchildren
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Nigerian government frees 130 kidnapped Catholic schoolchildren
December 21 03:53 PM
ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP)—Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November,...
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Labourer charged with 2011 double murder in St Elizabeth
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Labourer charged with 2011 double murder in St Elizabeth
December 21 03:04 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — A 41-year-old labourer has been charged in connection with the murder of two men in Middle Quarters, St Elizabeth in 2011. The...
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Corruption, Trust and Law Enforcement
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Corruption, Trust and Law Enforcement
February 13, 2010
One of the most troubling relationships which one can encounter is that of a marriage in which there has been a breakdown of trust. This breakdown of ...
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To sir, with love
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To sir, with love
Tamara Scott Williams 
February 13, 2010
The sheer volume of personal stories that colleagues, members of the media, esteemed persons from the educational, social, cultural and political land...
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Gardeners have a sense of humus
KEEBLE McFARLANE 
February 12, 2010
"All gardening is landscape painting." - Alexander Pope, 18th century English poet THERE is no doubt that the harshness of the climate is the reason p...
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Answers to unasked questions
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Answers to unasked questions
Barbara Gloudon 
February 11, 2010
THE GOVERNMENT is pleased that the IMF Agreement to provide budgetary support (aka a loan) has been finalised. A full-page advertisement posted by the...
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Congratulations, Bruce! Ready, steady, grow!
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Congratulations, Bruce! Ready, steady, grow!
Franklin Johnston 
February 11, 2010
After a lifetime in politics and two years in office, Bruce is at the starting gate of our economic miracle. The pieces are in place, mistakes are beh...
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Columns
True worship
Celta Kirkland 
February 11, 2010
Reflections in Prayer JOHN 4:24: "God is Spirit, and His worshippers must worship Him in Spirit and in truth." In the context of this verse Jesus was ...
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Too many guns in this town
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Too many guns in this town
MARK WIGNALL 
February 10, 2010
The recent haul of 19 guns, including high-powered ones and about 10,000 rounds of ammunition, which were said to have been surreptitiously removed fr...
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Nettleford, Huie and Norman Manley
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Nettleford, Huie and Norman Manley
Michael Burke 
February 10, 2010
ONE has to understand the vision of Norman and Edna Manley to understand what made Rex Nettleford tick. To a large extent the same was true of the gre...
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Columns
Jamaica’s trade policy
Anthony GOMES 
February 9, 2010
In view of the dire economic challenges facing the government, a review of Jamaica's trade policy has become urgent, if only to stem the decline of ma...
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Columns
From Finsac to IMF
With Betty Ann Blaine 
February 8, 2010
HEART TO HEART Dear Reader, So the deal with the International Monetary Fund is signed and sealed, and one gets the feeling that there is a virtual mo...
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Columns
Japanese assistance to Jamaica significant
By Ken Chaplin 
February 8, 2010
CHARACTERISTICALLY, Japanese are humble people and do not like to publicise themselves. Yet Japan's contribution to Jamaica's development has been sig...
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Columns
Further thoughts on primary education
WESLEY BARRETT 
February 7, 2010
IN my previous article, which encouraged revisiting and checking the goal of primary education, I suggested that there is a need in 2010/11 to develop...
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An assignment to finish
Jean Lowrie-Chin 
February 7, 2010
I wondered how I would weave the passing of two great Jamaicans with my plan to write on the protection of Jamaica's children. Then I realised that th...
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A Beautiful Mind
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A Beautiful Mind
DIANE ABBOTT 
February 6, 2010
YEARS ago I was privileged to see Rex Nettleford perform in his masterwork "Kumina". He was in his sixties at the time. If you knew nothing about him ...
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Rex Nettleford and the Jamaican project
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Rex Nettleford and the Jamaican project
CLAUDE ROBINSON 
February 6, 2010
RALSTON 'Rex' Nettleford deserves every superlative used to describe this extraordinary man who, for more than 50 years, gave his enormous intellect, ...
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Columns
Dancing to Caribbean Drums: An Appreciation of the life of Rex Nettleford
Sir Ronald Sanders 
February 6, 2010
THIS commentary is being written in the first blush of news that Rex Nettleford has died. I was overcome by a profound and deep sense of loss, which I...
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Jamaican Mahogany
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Jamaican Mahogany
John Maxwell 
February 6, 2010
THERE are lots of places in this world where, for weeks or months to come, people will be turning to other people and saying, "Let's ask Rex what he t...
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Changing the World
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Changing the World
James Moss-Solomon 
February 6, 2010
I cannot deny my love for history. It provides a background and understanding of many things that happened in our world, which still affect us today. ...
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Emotion can’t pay Haiti’s bills
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Emotion can’t pay Haiti’s bills
February 6, 2010
TWO Fridays ago when I was privileged to be the guest host on Betty-Ann Blaine's talk show, On the Agenda, a caller who I happened to know was a JLP s...
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Questions on the Future of Caricom’s Youth
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Questions on the Future of Caricom’s Youth
RICKEY SINGH 
February 6, 2010
After big ‘no-shows’ by Heads of Gov’t at Suriname summit HOW serious are our Caribbean Community Heads of Government in moving, collectively, to fost...
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Auntie Mary’s One Cent and the Finsac Commission
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Auntie Mary’s One Cent and the Finsac Commission
Howard Gregory 
February 6, 2010
WHEN I was a seminary student preparing for ordination as a priest, I was under the supervision of the late Rt Rev Sehon Goodridge. From time to time ...
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Chile shifts, but not all that much
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Chile shifts, but not all that much
KEEBLE McFARLANE 
February 5, 2010
FOR the first time in half a century, the voters of Chile have sent someone from the political right to La Mondeda, the presidential palace in the cha...
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