Massive earthquake coming

Jamaica is due to experience an earthquake on the same scale as one that sank a section of Port Royal more than 300 years ago, according to the Earthquake Unit at the University of the West Indies....

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• Grant takes on Chuck for criticising civil service
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Hospitality Jamaica

Jazz Fest' to be lucrative for Jamaica

Putting in twice as much work

WITH JUST days to go before The Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee championship, Portland parish champion, Rushawn Stewart of Norwich Primary School, is raring to go. The 12-year-old grade-six student will be entering the finals ...

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Free up Sunday racing - Chin

With four Sunday meets scheduled for Caymanas Park this year, the first on January 29, president of the United Bookmakers Association (UBA) Xavier Chin is urging the new Government to reverse the decision of the previous...

• More than 3,500 athletes to compete at Gibson Relays
• Ganga sidelined
• Rafa rules Roger in Aussie semi
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Food exporters not eager to borrow

Local members of the food-exporting industry are yet to take up any of the J$100-million loan fund offered by the Government of Jamaica through the EXIM Bank to upgrade and which was put in place...

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• Jamaica is open for business
• PM makes 'absolute' commitment to investors

El Rich Benefit for musical friend

One version of the old adage is that good friends are better than pocket money. Comedian/businessman Rohan Gunter must be highly ranked in the 'good friend' category, based on the effort he is making to secure treatment for his paralysed colleague...

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The wages of sin

I am amused at the attempts of Chris Dehring, chairman of Lime Jamaica Ltd, to distance his company from the old Cable & Wireless (C&W) Jamaica monopoly. "I remember the Jamaica Telephone Company...

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• EDITORIAL - Right decision on Mike Henry

Time to end political job handouts

THE EDITOR, Sir:If the orange and green parties truly wish to have a less divided country and fewer or no garrisons, let us start over.In relation to JEEP and other infrastructure projects, why have we moved from merit-based allocation of jobs...

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Happy birthday wishes

Happy birthday wishes to: Nick McAdam; the lovely Marcia Chin; the fab Laura Oates, in the Big Apple; Tanesha Linton, in the Carolinas; Cassel Ramsay, now a resident of Toronto, Canada; and the lovely Linda Woodford-Sewell, in Bristol, England, who all celebrate today....

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