'I'm sorry' - Davies' comments 'regrettable'
FACED WITH mounting demands for his resignation and a battery of public criticism, Finance Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, yesterday apologised for the manner and tone in which he made comments last Sunday at a People's National Party (PNP) function regarding.

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'...Media unfair to me'
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Heading for Iraq
NOT EVEN the haunting fear of undergoing a major surgery to remove a malignant tumour from a kidney can compare to the emotional turmoil one family in Queens, New York, is experiencing as their youngest child is whisked away to war. Norma Moodie-Waite...

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Teachers still on the warpath
Friends, family hail Eric Abrahams
At last, education tax goes to schools

PricewaterhouseCoopers, Downer lose round one - Judge rules that Douglas Chambers can sue them
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS AND its senior partner Richard Downer have lost the first round in the legal battle now being fought between the international accounting and auditing firm and Chambers Henry and Partners. PricewaterhouseCoopers' lawyers...

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Business opportunities on the Internet
Dollar rise temporary - Omri Evans
Changing trustees doesn't remedy breaches - Grace

Browne leads Barbados recovery
BARBADOS CAPTAIN Courtney Browne slammed a crucial, unbeaten century to lift his side to a first innings total of 325 all out on the second day of the third round Carib Beer Series match against Jamaica at the North Stars ground, Crab Hill in...

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Premier League teams to highlight Federation Cup
Rakkadash obliges
Blissett keen to assist Jamaica

Editorial: Mr Pantry's radical reforms
THOSE WHO recognise the importance of the rule of law and the long established procedures for protecting it may well be surprised by some of the judicial changes proposed by Mr. Kent Pantry, the Director of Public Prosecutions, at a forum on...

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Public Affairs: Politics and morality
Account to the Chinese man, Dr Davies
The big losers are our children

LETTER OF THE DAY: A dangerous revelation by Dr Davies
THE EDITOR, Sir: HOT POLITICAL rhetoric from a political platform, like alcohol, has a strange way of loosening the tongue and revealing secrets which on sober reflection should fill one with shame. The revelation that Dr. Omar Davies from a political..

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Why Black History Month here?
Are J'cans aware of their rights?
Terminating pregnancy

Is Carnival losing its rhythm?
WE'LL BE jamming, jamming here on Ring Road, We'll be having carnival here on Ring Road... sang Fab Five in the 1980s. The song was more than just a cute ditty to 'wine' to. It was paying homage to the genesis of the carnival movement in Jamaica on Ring..

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The 'Warlord' and his knack for controversy
Misty bliss in Holywell
Yolanda Adams gives Jamaica her blessing

Bishop's near death a salvation testimony
BISHOP CHOYES Codner almost lost his life to gunmen more than five years ago. The assistant pastor at Bethel Born Again Church on Oakland Road in St. Andrew was once employed as a driver by one of the taxi operators in Kingston. May, 1997, will be forever

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Nigeria burning inter-faith bridges

Dancing to the beat of Africa
IS DANCE merely a release of energy through physical movement, or are there deeper meanings to gesture and rhythm? How did Africans find ways to dance during slavery, forced as they were to submerge culture in a foreign land? Are 'butterfly', 'log on'...

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Emancipate yourself!

You're simply the best
DOREEN REID wrote all of 56 poems in two weeks, last year, in honour of her father, Lenny Reid. She wrote in a fever of inspiration after Father's Day, for a father who is blind, who has eight children, three of whom are blind, and who has admirably...

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Custard apple head and alligator mouth
Gilou Bouer...a woman of mystery

The case against going to war
NO ONE can properly assess the heated, often belligerent and bellicose arguments for and against the proposed United States (US) attack on Iraq without an understanding of the dangerous Bush Doctrine which was enunciated last year...

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War in Iraq: Take a stand
MPs, careers and salary controversies