'Ninja Man' hands over gun to Adams
PATRONS WERE astonished yesterday morning to see dancehall deejay Ninja Man (Desmond Ballen-tyne) hand a Glock 9mm gun to Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams during his performance at 'Sting 2002', at Jam-world Entertainment Centre...

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GLEANER HONOUR AWARDEE: VOLUNTEERISM
Ruby Martin: A picture of passion
Vandals plague Emancipation Park
Management enforces limited access

Lawmen clamp down on vendors
VENDORS WHO were slowly retaking sections of the Kingston Parish Church and the adjoining Old Wolmer's Yard, South Parade, downtown Kingston, had their attempt at resettlement thwarted by the police, yesterday. Town Clerk at the Kingston and St. Andrew..

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Elsaida Luke ­ Leading youth on the right path
French beggar will know fate on Monday
J'can fisherman dies in Honduras

New rates for NCB current accounts
THE NATIONAL Commercial Bank (NCB) has announced new charges relating to its personal current accounts and its business current accounts. It says that over the years, there have been significant increases in the cost of printing cheque leaves, which NCB.

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No sweet deal for sugar

ATHLETICS:-
Oliver remembered as a role model at Vere
FORMER national athlete Ilery Oliver may have been an unsung hero but the Vere family in particular will miss the Olympian who they label an excellent role model. Oliver, 38, died in Miami, Florida on Thursday in a motor vehicle accident that also...

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CRICKET:-
Cricketers move to Melbourne
HORSERACING:-
Stay with Royal Tiara

Rating the economy
WE WOULD take comfort in the statement of the Prime Minister that the negative rating imposed on Jamaica by Standard and Poor's will be reversed in the coming year, if it were that easy. Mr. Patterson in addressing the 50th Anniversary Banquet of the...

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Words to live by
Life's winnings are given to those who endure

LETTER OF THE DAY:-
We all need to love a little more
THE EDITOR, Sir: IT IS my suspicion that most, if not all, of those who will hang from the gallows will come from the poorest sections of our society. They are often ...

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The gift that gives back
Patois as judicial problem
'Human relations' as key to crime

'Don Gorgon' turns new leaf, again
NINJA MAN walked out of Sting 2002 a virtual hero on Friday morning after he handed over a Glock 9mm pistol to Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams, which the deejay claimed he owned. The self-proclaimed 'Don Gorgon' walked out of Jamworld...

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OUT & AROUND

Agri sector stagnant Processors forced to import cash crops, Clarke admits
WESTERN BUREAU: "TO FORGET how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves," says Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke, quoting Mahatma Gandhi, one of the world's great leaders. The Minister could have quoted the Lebanese...

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Westmoreland farmers need help urgently

Mangrove replanting pilot project in Rae Town
AS PART of the Inner City Renewal Programme in Rae Town, the National Environment and Planning Agency has initiated the Kingston Harbour Mangrove Replanting Project, which aims at increasing the mangrove population in the harbour. The 18-month pilot...

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Water supply scheme for Gravel Hill

Packing and storing away Christmas ornaments
MOST PEOPLE dread taking down the Christmas tree. Putting it up and dressing it might have been fun but it's a chore, after the excitement of the holidays, to strip off the lights, coil and put them away, pick off all those little ornaments, and pull...

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US celebrities help local charity