Wet woes out West
ABOUT 600 households in the McNeill Lands, Westmoreland, who have been severely affected by the flood rains that have pelted the parish since Tuesday, are currently being assessed by a Westmoreland welfare team.

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A-G set to probe 'Operation Grow' scheme
Senate passes new oaths of allegiance
Golding raps PNP's 'appetite for hanging'
Importance of education stressed at PSOJ forum

Amnesty's local chapter hits back
THE JAMAICAN Chapter of Amnesty International (AI) in a statement yesterday from spokeswoman Maria Carla Gullotta criticised the reference to its parent organisation as a foreign body interfering in Jamaica affairs made by Attorney-General...

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'Workers not troubled by election mode'
Celebrities on road to help disabled

Kiwanis Clubs assist Clarendon farmers
KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL, through its May Pen and Providence, Montego Bay Clubs, has donated over $220,000 worth of agricultural supplies to some 50 farmers representing about 40 communities in the central and southern regions of Clarendon.

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Mined-out lands to become forests

Blackwood produces super run in 400m
JAMAICAN COMMONWEALTH Games champion Michael Blackwood, running for the Americas, won the athletics World Cup 400 metres race in a personal best 44.60 seconds in Madrid, Spain, yesterday.

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Football - Bellefield win again
Gardner out for six weeks after knee surgery
Awesome Power ready to explode
'Callaloo' rides three-timer

Editorial - The JTB affair
WE HOPE and expect that after the fulminations, reason will prevail and that the Minister of Tourism and Sports, Mrs. Portia Simpson Miller will ensure that the Jamaican public is provided with detailed information on what took place in the New York...

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Where is the vision for Jamaica?

Letter of the Day - The original September 11
THE EDITOR, Sir: "For two terrible days last week the capital of Chile turned into a bloody battleground. Planes roared in almost at rooftop level firing rockets and sewing bombs. Tanks rumbled through the streets tearing holes in walls with shells

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WICB must learn from its errors
'I am a prophetess!'
Unfortunate language by columnist
We are sitting on a time bomb
WI cricket team needs support, not ridicule
"Poli-tricking' by the two parties
The pain of rape

Bounty Killer and Lady Saw take on 'bad word' sentences
POPULAR DANCEHALL deejays Lady Saw and Bounty Killer are still fighting a legal battle in the Supreme Court against their sentences for using indecent language at a stage show last year.

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Medical students give 'smoking' performance

JAS yet to receive Gov't funds
THE JAMAICA Agricultural Society (JAS) is concerned about the delay in the disbursement of government funding from the 2002/2003 budget, but the society's president, A.A. Bobby Pottinger, says that will not delay its development plans.

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Cuba embraces goods from the United States

Day out - Jump in!
From wasteland to Nature's Paradise.

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