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ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica—General manager of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), Robert Honeyghan, says the staging of the inaugural fireworks displa...
Forex: $159.47 to one US dollar
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Tesla loses EV crown to China’s BYD in 2025 as sales slip
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6.5-magnitude quake shakes Mexico City and beach resort
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP)—A 6.5-magnitude earthquake rattled Mexico's capital and a tourist hotspot on the Pacific coast on Friday, killing at least o...

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Where there’s a will…
July 24, 2010
At Friday's close of the 18th biennial meeting of the International Aids Conference in Vienna Austria, its chair, Dr Julio Montaner, pointed out that ...
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Sports a saving grace again
July 23, 2010
It's uncanny that just when the country needed a boost on the international stage, especially after the theatrics involving security and politics, and...
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Right on Mr Patrick Casserly
July 22, 2010
Mr Patrick Casserly, the president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Industry and Commerce, makes an important point in yesterday's edition of our sister ...
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1,600 voices speaking from the grave
July 22, 2010
This is a compelling question for the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) and its unconscionable parliamentarians, who have chosen to ignore the ...
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Are we preparing for the Cuban economic hurricane?
July 21, 2010
The United States policy of an embargo against Cuba has been a comprehensive failure. Castro's administration has survived. The redundant embargo shou...
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PNP — mere shadow of a once great party
July 21, 2010
Mr Norman Washington Manley, credited as the founder of the People's National Party (PNP), father of the national movement for self-determination, and...
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Do we dare now have hope?
July 19, 2010
MR Danville Walker, the commissioner of customs, has given us one of the brightest pieces of news we have had in a long time. The customs boss is quot...
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Another side to that sports tax issue
July 18, 2010
NO doubt the tax authorities are anxiously seeking ways to secure the estimated $100 million which they say is owed to them annually by tax-dodging Ja...
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‘It’s bad, and getting more bad…’
July 17, 2010
JAMAICANS have a wise saying: "Wha gaawn bad a mawnin, caan come good a evenin", roughly translated to say what has gone bad in the beginning, can't b...
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Fraser’s positive test suggests slack management
July 16, 2010
This newspaper is hopeful that Miss Shelly Ann Fraser will not be made to pay too harsh a penalty, having tested positive for a painkiller she neglect...
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If we like Dr Tufton, it’s for a good reason
July 15, 2010
THE agriculture sector has been ill served by successive governments since Independence because they have not always selected the "brightest and the b...
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The right replacement for Kern Spencer…
July 14, 2010
We note with interest the five individuals who are vying to replace Member of Parliament Kern Spencer as the People's National Party's (PNP) represent...
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Why we, and everyone else, liked Mr Horace Clarke
July 12, 2010
REGGAE icon, Mr Peter 'Tosh' McIntosh popularised the term "politricks" as a euphemism for Jamaican politics. In today's Jamaica and born of long disa...
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Praise Spain but salute South Africa too
July 11, 2010
Apainting which attempts to portray an autopsy being done on the body of iconic South African Mr Nelson Mandela has caused a considerable stir in Sout...
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Are these senators really serious?
July 10, 2010
ACCORDING to Ms Kamina Johnson Smith, one of the 13 government senators still on record as endorsing Prime Minister Bruce Golding's role in 'Dudusgate...
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Futile to deny technology in football
July 9, 2010
AFTER a month of high drama, come tomorrow, either Spain, purveyors of a mesmerising possession style firmly rooted in magical touch control, or the m...
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Don’t let up now, Harbour View
July 8, 2010
WE could ask what took the National Water Commission (NWC) so long to concede its liability to fix the sewage treatment plant that, according to yeste...
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Is the PNP running out of ideas?
July 7, 2010
SOMEBODY please wake up the People's National Party (PNP). It is clearly fast asleep and missing out on what's really happening in Jamaica. To have bo...
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Don’t abandon Caricom, fix it
July 5, 2010
THE one thing everyone in the Caribbean agrees on is that the regional grouping, the Caribbean Community (Caricom), has been an abject failure. The pr...

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