Lead Stories
Teachers riled up
OCHO RIOS: TEACHERS ARE preparing to do battle with the Ministry of Education if there are attempts to effect lay offs in the classroom.

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Wanted: Rapid response team for schools
Melville firm on not seeking second term
UHWI to boost pharmacy
Mico lecturer to pursue Fulbright programme
Councillors crotose Gov'ts tardiness

News
Little-White hits out

NUTRITIONIST DR. Heather Little-White, yesterday appealed to the Government to set up a funding agency to compensate persons who have been made disabled as a result of crime. Paralysed last July by a gunman's bullet, Dr Little-White says the Health..

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Jamaican eye doctor honoured in Canada
Trench Town gets new reading centre
Confession haunts killer
Westmoreland setting up halfway house for street people

Business
Nation's oil use a concern to PCJ head
SOME 119 million barrels of crude oil, valued at approximately US$2 billion, ($84 billion), were used to fuel the nation's energy needs between 1995 and 1999. In 1999 alone, the country used some 23.4 million barrels of oil, at a cost if US$435 million...

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PSOJ forms Energy Committee

Sport
Jamaica fall behind B'dos
GEORGETOWN, CANA: FOUR-WICKET hauls from Anderson Sealy and Ryan Austin ensured defending champions Barbados took first innings points from Jamaica on the second day of their Zone B West Indies Under-19 cricket match at the GCC ground, Bourda,...

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Sewell recalled
Chanderpaul back in the nets
Griffiths on trial with Bolton Wanderers
Ja lift Antilles Bodybuilding title

Commentary
Victims' rights
THE GOVERNMENT is finally getting around to legislation which will offer better protection of the rights of victims of crime. Since the early 1970s a legal aid programme has been in place to provide legal representation at state expense to accused...

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Peralto, the EAC and ring games
Men, women and change
Telephone blues
Ashamed to be a journalist!

Letters
Deceptive media polls
THE EDITOR, Madam:

HOWEVER WELL intentioned, polls being conducted by media houses to elicit views from the public are in the main unscientific and can misleadingly appear to be a national canvas.

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Politicians and accountability
The staff of YS Falls
In support of Merlene
Night noises at Devon House
Unanswered questions concerning new passports
Jamaica'seconomic woes
On fighting crime and arming private citizens

Entertainment
United Airlines launches services
IT WAS celebration time at Talk of the Town ballroom, Le Meridien Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, when members of United Airlines, the Tour Connection Limited (TTCL), several travel agencies and other guests gathered for the official launch of the Airlines'...

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Tastee auditions September 2
'Miss B' Still reaping the fruits of her labour
Summer fun with the grandchildren

Shipping
New agreement signed
COSCON (Cosco Container Lines) Shanghai and Zim Israeli Navigation Company Limited Haifa are pleased to announce their new service co-operation by slot exchange between their two services in the Mediterranean/Far East trade, starting in the middle of...

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Changing structure within int'l shipping and port industries

Star Page
Will Direct TV's doom cause cinema boom

DIRECT TV or cable in general, has been blamed for influencing movie lovers to stay home instead of going to cinemas. Now that local cable operators have removed Direct TV and several other movie channels, there is not much choice but to fork out the...

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