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T20 World Cup will be crucial for Sammy, says Bishop
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Committee member Carlene Edwards encouraged by FIFA experience
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Committee member Carlene Edwards encouraged by FIFA experience
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Committee member Carlene Edwards encouraged by FIFA experience
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...72 specialised vehicles arrive in Montego Bay
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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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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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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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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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Columns
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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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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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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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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Diaspora and Air J, urban farms, students, Haiti
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Diaspora and Air J, urban farms, students, Haiti
Franklin Johnston 
February 4, 2010
The diaspora has good people who decided to live, work and contribute abroad - not in their birthland. We rejoice that they "made it" but they must no...
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We know…our Rex lives on
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We know…our Rex lives on
February 4, 2010
THE NATION MOURNS the passing of one of its most illustrious sons. Superlatives abound in praise of the Hon Rex Nettleford, OM (Order of Merit), FIOJ ...
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Do we really know Him?
with Celta Kirkland 
February 4, 2010
Reflections in prayer JOHN 3:17: "For God did not send His Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world...
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Can Reneto Adams quell the fear?
February 3, 2010
WHATEVER may be our hopes for the near future, it is painfully obvious that they do not include us forging a better society in the next five, 10, 15 y...
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