Retail boom
But smaller store owners see dark clouds
JAMAICA'S RETAIL trade has grown significantly over the past four years with substantial investments by the PriceSmart and MegaMart outlets and supermarket chain, SuperPlus Food Stores.

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Sanitation workers face health risk
Car rental companies - a vanishing industry
Gambling addiction worries Government
Garbage collectors at risk
Easy availability of firecrackers raises concerns

Beware dangerous toys
AS MANY parents begin their hunt for the hottest toys to give their children this Christmas, the Bureau of Standards is now warning that there are several small toys coming out of China which may be potentially dangerous for children.

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Many sanitation workers do not wear protective gear
Death toll rises in Sp Town shootings

Grace Food Processors launches new product line
GRACE FOOD Processors (Canning) Ltd (GFPC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Grace, Kennedy & Company Ltd., launched their Diet Tropical Rhythms Juices and their Readi Meal Products at their Twickenham Close factory on Friday.

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Jamaica strikes insurance brokerage deal with Bajans
New tax bites into Carreras
JNBS Group records assets of $40 billion
Jamaica key to C&W Worldwide - chief executive

Uphill task for Windies
JACQUES KALLIS hit 158 as South Africa turned the screws on West Indies yesterday, ending the second day of the first Test with a lead of 474.

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Golden run by 'Fudgie'
New JNA boss a real netball veteran
Showdown at the Compound
Confident Village host Arnett
Maverley advance in Super League
Commentary - Put in a spinner, take out a pacer

Editorial - When Scrooge corrected Santa Claus
WAS IT a case of 'Bah Humbug', the Spirit of Scrooge overwhelming Santa Claus and 'Ho-ho-ho', or were the authorities at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre motivated by the necessity to be "safe rather than sorry," why the annual Christmas...

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Ja and the IMF: The more things change...
A murderous increase
We are lions led by donkeys
Ed Bartlett should apologise too!

Letter of the day - Concern about ganja is unwarranted
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL'S concern that decriminalising ganja would place Jamaica in conflict with international anti-drug treaties ("No to Ganja," December 10, 2003) is unwarranted.

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Don't blame Omar alone
Gun amnesty proposal short-sighted
Re: Increase in Postinor-2 use

Jade
MISS JAMAICA World 2003 Jade Fulford has been named the 'Continental Queen of Beauty of the Caribbean.'

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A universe of charity in Michelle Lecky
Fun re-enters Kingston Christmas

Married life is a serious t'ing
YOU KNOW sometimes some tings happen dat need more people. Like if you get up one Saturday an find two head a chocho, couple grains a peas, few carrots and such an yu rustle up de most epicurean delight till all yu wanda how yu dweet...

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Book review - Daily diet of God's Word to strengthen the soul
A passion for pots

Cover story - All I want for Christmas
IF YOU are a true shopoholic, then you need no excuse to break out the credit cards and to burn your bonus on new things in the stores. But, the temptation will be so much more this season, the biggest shoporama of all.

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Hold your money, let go of love
Oh drama - Hope Wheeler: Storyteller and artist

No to state funding of parties
THOSE POLITICIANS calling for state funding of elections take us for idiots. 'Dem tink we bawn backa cow' ­ to use a forthright Jamaican expression. They want us to help them to sucker us. (Bartley)

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The tragedy of Zimbabwe
'Affluenza': A malady of both rich and poor
US politics and Caribbean interests
The time is right to rescue our city

Anabella Seaga to wed!
DOVECAKES, THE news has had tongues a-wagging since it first hit the Boulevards and byways of haute-society and how!

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'I feel like a king'
Digicel's dancehall directors