Upgraded schools face closure - Lack of funds could affect 120,000 students
THE MAJORITY of some 80 re-classified (upgraded) high schools, with a total population of 120,000 students...

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Highway 2000 splits community - Life not the same for residents of Sharper Lane, Old Harbour
EAC rejects call for overseas voting
Auditor-General called in at St James Parish Council
Machete-wielders invade school
Terrorism Act: No hidden agenda - PM

MP calls for legislation against sex offenders
SHARON HAYE-WEBSTER, Member of Parliament for South Central St. Catherine, has once again stirred talks within the walls of Gordon House calling for the implementation of legislation allowing for the registration of sex offenders.

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Ballistic testing for guns involved in Flankers shooting
Pension increases to take effect by January
Local fishermen appeal for government support
KSAC reports big increase in revenue

WI fall behind in series
HARARE, (Reuters): ANDY BLIGNAUT completed career best figures to bowl Zimbabwe to victory in the third one-day international against West Indies yesterday.

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Elegance, Herbalist oblige in co-features
Mixed results for Ja teams
Waterhouse seek focus
How will 2007 Cup profits be shared? - Reid
Hinds, Taylor toast of JCA

Illiterate taxi drivers
WARNINGS THAT the Jamaican workforce is suffering from a severe literacy deficit have been reinforced by news that some 17 per cent of the membership of the Taxi Drivers Association of Jamaica cannot read.

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Turkey on the frontline
A bitch of a life
Some developments in S&T

Defence of 'colourful Jamaican language'
THE EDITOR, Sir: I WILL take a quick look at the reasoning used by Mr. Chester Burgess in treating the Jamaican language with such disdain.

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Diversify job opportunities
Is Mr Golding qualified to become leader?
Unable to collect NIS
Turn back to God
Improve safety, lighting along new highway
Lessons from Georgia
Re: Teachers preparing for war
Ban jet ski once and for all

Poetry blooms in MoBay
WESTERN BUREAU: POETRY COMES calling regularly at three different places and vastly varying settings in Montego Bay, St. James.

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A refreshing and stimulating 'Breeze'

$M water plan for north coast
WESTERN BUREAU: THE NATIONAL Water Commission (NWC) is now seeking approximately US$100m to finance yet another phase of its ambitious North-coast Master Plan...

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'Flankers residents will have to relocate'
Dolphin Head project moving into high gear
Sewage problem haunts Luana