Shaw wants cess scrapped
CONSUMERS WILL have to pay more for foreign goods as a result of the proposed cess on imports, Audley Shaw, the Jamaica Labour Party's spokesman on Finance, warned yesterday.

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Policeman commits suicide - Recruit undergoing counselling after witnessing tragedy

Whiteman lauds newly-launched advertising awards
MINISTER OF Information, Senator Burchell Whiteman, congratulated the Advertising Agencies Association of Jamaica (AAAJ) and the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) on the initiation of the Advertising Effectiveness Awards Competition...

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Shi'ite Muslims swarm to shrine
St James oil spill cleared
JCTU awaiting debt reduction proposals
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Kurds welcome Garner with cheers, flowers
Patterson outraged at destruction of stadium
YWCA to host int'l breakfast

Gov't to take over Air J - Davies
THE DEAL now being negotiated with Air Jamaica will give back to the Government the majority stake in the airline, Finance Minister Dr. Omar Davies said yesterday...

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Jamaica on review for possible credit downgrade - Moody's
Rose Campbell targets Trident Hotel
Concrete achievements at Carib Cement
C&W sees corporate business upsurge "...the prospects are encouraging" -­ Gary Barrow
Halting the slide in agriculture
Geek jokes
BOSS takes new furniture contract

Lara holds key
PORT OF SPAIN, CMC: NOT FOR the first time, Brian Lara stands between a heroic challenge or abject humiliation for the West Indies.

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Jamaica lift WI Under-15 title
Tall order for Tivoli, W'house
St. Catherine gain ascendancy in final
A spanking well deserved
MoBay drivers give Easter lessons at Dover
Travel-weary J'cans set to launch at Penn Relays

Teaching performance
ON THE assumption that as a result of current negotiations teachers' salaries are being adjusted to 80% of their private sector counterparts, the government has every right to demand of them that future pay increases be linked to performance.

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'Friendly fire'
Might is now right!
Deeper indebtedness
NWC's Hour of Decision

Internet vital for growth
THE EDITOR, Sir: ACCESS TO the Internet is vital if we are to compete in the global economy. This is a technology that can take goods and services to the privacy of a person's home anywhere in this world.

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Iraq and the bully
Nurturing' Marlon Samuels
Measures of worth
Blasphemous!
'Jamaicanness' and culture
Words to remember
Another 'Band-Aid' budget

Big party at Chukka Cove
THERE WERE several other soca-oriented parties and sessions happening all over the North Coast on Sunday, but Chukka Cove was still the place to be.

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Ward Theatre at forefront of Downtown re-development
Happy birthday Nadz
Nina Simone, jazz great, dies at 70 - Music chronicled black rights movement

TAINTED
T WO WIDELY-publicised cases of HIV transmission, allegedly through tainted blood, saw Dr. Lundie Richards, the National Blood Transfusion Service's director, coming out on the defensive.

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Unsafe blood
The Chinese fallout