Go get the land! - Gov't to acquire properties for $billion housing project
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson has warned private landowners seeking to profit off the $5 billion inner-city housing project that Government was prepared to take control of their property.

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'I had no reason to bribe'
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Braeton case set for court today
Temple Hall roadwork to begin soon
'Flankers file with the DPP'
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'Ghetto girl' makes it big
From a little 'ghetto girl' whose dreams were often clouded by the struggles of life in a depressed inner-city community, Simone Hull has surmounted immeasurable degrees of despondency, discontentment, discouragement and distress.

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'St Bess' benefits from health fair
Waterhouse FC restores peace in troubled communities
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Patterson orders education review
Jamaicans welcome regional unification
Norman Manley High, top performer

Annan urges free trade to help slash poverty
QUITO (Reuters): UNITED NATION'S. (U.N.) Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday urged rich and poor nations to overcome a rift in free trade negotiations to help fight poverty in the developing world.

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US stocks retreat
No reason to change accommodative stance, says Fed's Moskow

Boyz to get good measure - says Brown
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Carl Brown says the Reggae Boyz' friendly international against El Salvador at the National Stadium on Sunday will be used as a yardstick for important upcoming World Cup qualifiers.

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Cup win puts W'house on top
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Windies under serious pressure
Money problems hurt Star Cosmos
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A message to Seaga
THE YOUNG BRIGADE sent a signal to the old as the Jamaica Labour Party marked its 60th anniversary at the weekend. The signal was not an overt challenge to the leadership of Edward Seaga but he would have got the message.

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Replicating Campion and Immaculate's success
Signals received from the JLP conference

Lie detectors needed from top to bottom
THE EDITOR, Sir: I WELCOME the proposed introduction of lie detector tests for the police. In its bid to stamp out corruption the police hierarchy may impose the test on officers seeking promotions or re-assignment to 'sensitive areas'.

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Best educators worldwide
Venom and bitterness
In-sourcing the Diaspora
Disband the JCF, utter nonsense!
Where is POLSAC?
Socialisation not poverty causes crime
Managing the Forces' fleet

Style dominates at CFW
WHITE COTTON: Cole Facts', from Michelle Cole followed with an abundance of white cotton. The white skirts and dresses were trimmed with brown beads.

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TALLAWAH: EXED SETS THE BAR

'Upgrade the cruise shipping product or get out'
THE CARIBBEAN enjoys 51 per cent of the world's cruise market, which makes it by far the largest market share, followed by the Mediterranean with 15 per cent.

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Westrec gets Port Authority contract for Pt Antonio Marina
Promote the Caribbean village - Sierhus

Determined to serve
I N THE early 1990s James Gibbs, managing director of Protective Systems and Alarms Ltd., began theological studies as a part-time student at the United Theological College of the West Indies (UTCWI).

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Radical re-thinking - Proposals to transform missions studies