Johan-Remaldo Smythe ready to put Holland High on the map
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Johan-Remaldo Smythe ready to put Holland High on the map
January 11 07:21 PM
Johan-Ramaldo Smythe showed that he is ready for all comers this season by smashing the Class One 100m record at the Purewater/RDanny Williams/JC Deve...
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...

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If the National Anthem is worth anything…
September 1, 2011
People who have no sense of history would have scoffed at this week's Sunday Observer lead story that told of the State's unwillingness to recognise t...
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The sad truth that Jamaicans don’t want to face
August 30, 2011
THE need for a supplementary budget by a government arises from the need to recalibrate public finances after the midpoint of the fiscal year. Such ac...
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Taming one of nature’s most furious beasts
August 29, 2011
If Mr Ronald Jackson, the director of Jamaica's Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) wanted a dramatic demonstration of th...
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Mr Blake’s glory and Mr Bolt’s false start
August 28, 2011
YESTERDAY'S stunning events at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea reminds us of the uncertain, topsy turvy nature of life. It als...
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Speaking to the rich and super rich
August 27, 2011
IN many countries, those who have become super rich often feel the need to give back to the society which spawned them and from which they made their ...
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Unfortunate mixed messages or inept communication?
August 26, 2011
As we said in this space yesterday, this newspaper empathises with Mr Asafa Powell who was forced to withdraw from the individual men's 100 metres at ...
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Herald’s demise a sign of the times?
August 24, 2011
No newspaper can, or should ever, herald the demise of another. After all, 'same knife stick, sheep stick goat'. The disappearance from print of the S...
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UDC: Too much has been lost in translation
August 23, 2011
The rush of power to the head often leads to putting one's foot in the mouth. We certainly hope that this was not the case with Ms Joy Douglas, the ge...
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Jamaican politicians neither read nor write
August 22, 2011
IN politics in the United States of America, an aspiring politician or elected politician seeking higher office has to publish at least one book expla...
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Restoring Women’s Centre budget is good thinking
August 21, 2011
It is with relief that the nation heard on the weekend that the Government intended to restore money which had been cut from the budget of the Women's...
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IMF cannot escape its responsibility
August 20, 2011
While Jamaica waits on the current review of our economic performance by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it is useful to look at certain myths ...
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Remembering Marcus Mosiah Garvey
August 18, 2011
We're getting a little tired of politicians jumping on and off the Marcus Garvey bandwagon for nothing but self-serving ends. Every time that the anni...
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Turning back the clock on our progress
August 17, 2011
THERE is no doubt that the Jamaican Government is firmly wedged between a rock and a hard place, with very little wiggle room as it chops even recurre...
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‘Horse dead and crow fat’
August 16, 2011
THE oft misquoted Jamaican saying 'Horse dead and crow fat' means that one man's misfortune is another man's fortune. This truism holds good for the g...
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IMF must not ask a gov’t to commit suicide
August 13, 2011
INTERNATIONAL financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank habitually lambast governments of developing countri...
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A lesson from the Mullings saga:
August 12, 2011
Athletes must keep themselves drug-free WORD that Jamaican sprinter, Mr Steve Mullings, the third fastest man over 100 metres this year, has tested po...

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