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Late
Breaking News
12:30
p.m. EST
Customs
officials this morning seized five vehicles said to be stolen
in the United States and shipped to Jamaica.The
vehicles include a Mercedes Benz and a Pajero. Three motorcycles
were also seized.
The sting
operation was carried out at the Kingston Wharves by officials
from the Revenue Protection Agency (RPD), a customs watchdog
group. According
to the RPD, the vehicles were in a container addressed to
a company in the Montego Bay Free Zone under the guise that
it contained appliances.
The police
have been called in to take over the probe. There was no arrest.
Lead Stories
Jovayn reunited with parents
WESTERN BUREAU: SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOVAYN Miller who was kidnapped on Friday, was reunited with his parents yesterday morning. The happy ending came three days after he was abducted by a group of men who demanded a $10-million ransom for his safe return.
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LIFF head arrested - Charged with secretary over Edwards Heights housing project
Spring Garden takes
on road project
Parliamentarians warned to
declare assets
Missing Persons Unit coming
Whiteman dismisses claims of difference with PM

News
Falmouth Hospital benefits from Rotary gifts
FALMOUTH, Trelawny: THE FALMOUTH Hospital and Infirmary is the recipient of a container load of medical supplies donated by Rotary Clubs in Holland and the United States last week.
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Court hearing GCT appeal by two Seaga companies
NDM replaces
Christiana caretaker
Relocation for Barnett Street prisoners
Specialist raises concern about children's vision

Business
Cane farmers urged to
reduce production cost
CANE FARMERS are being urged to work towards the reduction of production costs in the sugar industry. According to a release from the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Minister of Agriculture Roger Clarke made the call in a recent address to the...
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JTB to host Internet
seminar for hoteliers
Gov't signs agreement with JAMCOPY

Sport
$1m boost for schoolgirls
THE Captain's Bakery yesterday renewed its sponsorship of the schoolgirls football competition with the handing over of a cheque for $1m by managing director Captain Horace Burrell. Burrell who is also the president of the Jamaica Football Federation.
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Adams ready to go
Rain rescues Leeward Islands
True to form after round one
Westmoreland lead St. Elizabeth

Commentary
Boost for agriculture
THE LIFTING of the ban on Jamaican yam to the American market is a welcome shot in the arm for agriculture. With trade estimated at US$11 million per year yams are the foremost non-traditional export performer. The fact that the trade was threatened...
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Defining our education priority?
Almost a revolution
Children of which tomorrow?
Reflections on the Carreras sports awards

Letters
Letter of the Day Redeeming UWI's image
THE EDITOR, Madam: THE CONSTANTLY negative verbal battering of the University of the West Indies by a particular talk-show host has become so common place that the society now seems to accept it. Consequently, he continues his cynical and abusive...
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Disturbed at stoning incident
A really positive move
Blood donation lotto
A worthwhile and inspiring series
In praise of Jamaican education

Entertainment
Rich music for Bishop's enthronement
A RICH mix of traditional hymns, Caribbean inspirational songs, Psalms used in the Anglican traditions of church music, combined with contemporary sounds of Jamaican composers, will be the main features of the service of enthronement for the 13th...
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ENTERTAINMENTBEAT - Who's hot and who's not

Youth Link
Disaster Dates - I'm not dating you ! again
EVER HAD one of those can't tell your friends how it went dates? What happened? Did you spill orange juice on her lap or did you forget that you actually had a date with her? Whatever the reason, you blew the moment.
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DEARCOUNSELLOR - What career should I choose?
Success Marc's way

The Shipping Industry
Portworkers acquire houses
TWENTY-TWO portworkers recently received keys to their houses from the National Housing Trust (NHT), under a joint venture agreement between the Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ), the Kingston Port Workers Pensions Fund and the NHT.
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Port Authority gets award

Senior Life
Vira Smith 88 still
setting the seams
PORUS, Manchester: AT 88, Vira Smith still has a passion for dressmaking: a career which she started at age 15 and will continue to practice "as long as life is in the body".
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Let's make resolutions we can keep

Star Page
Unhindered by age
ALTHOUGH Louise Sybliss has reached her 66th birthday, it has not prevented her from making her daily trek to the Black River Market where she has been selling for more than 10 years. The senior citizen of Luana District in Brompton, St. Elizabeth...
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Merciless raring to go

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