Lead Stories
Wire-tap law to change - Government backs proposal to give Courts authority over eavesdropping
GOVERNMENT IS moving to speed up the passage of legislation that would effectively take away the authority to use wire-tapping as part of police investigations out of the hands of...

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Oil deal won't budge pump prices
OUR budget still awaiting Cabinet approval
MP against 'exporting' squatters
Residents march on police station
Reward for KFC exec's killers

News
How to keep teens out of trouble
Brief overview of tips 1 through 3 published in yesterday's Gleaner: 1. First look at yourself. Be clear about your own sexual values and attitudes. Communicating with your children about sex, love, and relationships is often more successful when you...

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Dutch airline pull-out to affect Chinese community
Tourism education making a mark in schools
MoBay vendors protest removal
Attorney-at-law dies of heart attack

Business
Jamaicans urged to exploit Free Trade Area
MINISTER OF Foreign Trade Anthony Hylton has urged Jamaica to prepare itself to exploit the market of 800 million people that would be created by the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The FTAA agreement is being negotiated and the negotiations...

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The changing face of the J'can Shipping Industry
New board for NPWCCA

Sport
PSG picks Kelly

KEITH Kelly who represented Jamaica's Under-17 football team at the World Youth Cup in New Zealand last year is now a Paris Saint Germain player according to sources close to the player's Belgian agent. Kelly, the source said, was signed on a...

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WI camp begins
Red Stripe Bowl batting poor
Lucky 3 share Pools prize

Commentary
Youth and crime
THE UNITED Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Jamaica, has simply put numbers to what every observant parent already knows: the nation's children and young people are deeply worried about crime and violence. Crime and violence is in fact their number one.

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The dunces of history
Recolonisation
Wolfe Report ignored
State journalism pulling in the big names - The Spike

Letters
Letter of the Day - No to Public Defender's inner-city proposal
THE EDITOR, Madam: I wish to comment on Mr. Howard Hamilton Q.C., the Public Defender's proposal that the private sector and Government should spend Two Billion Dollars to "transform" the inner city.

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Ashamed of existing condition of roads
Thanks
Selling our birthright to foreigners
No market for pumpkins

Entertainment
STETHS' past students honoured

GOLD AND blue balloons and ribbons decorated the Montego Suite of Le Meridien Jamaica Pegasus Hotel Saturday night for the staging of the St. Elizabeth Technical High School Past Students' Association's Annual Awards and Banquet. Past students of...

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Peter Tosh's tribute: good vibes

Senior Life
Planning for Retirement
WHEN SAEED Amanullah retired, he thought he had his life all figured out. Like many people hitting the retirement trail, he planned to do some consulting work and see the world. But for Amanullah, 71, of Orange County, California, things didn't quite...

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How health savvy are you?

Star Page
The caring dedicated Barbara Lawrence - Starlight on Alexandria

SHE could have been anything else but a teacher. But, she loved children so much she couldn't help being in the classroom for more than 20 years. That's a long time to be teaching and Mrs. Barbara Lawrence loved every moment of the experience. A bit on.

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Burning Spear for Sunshine performance
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Dancehall clashes