HARD TIMES!
WOMEN'S CONSUMPTION LEVELS FALL
AGATHA LEWIS, a 53-year-old seamstress of Lincoln Avenue in Kingston, admits that her rent has not moved by one cent in recent years, but she is finding it harder to pay the $5,000 monthly charge. Finding food on a daily basis is an even ...

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We will not endorse harmful policies ­ JLP
NEC upbeat
Five years for US couple who abused Jamaicans

A love affair with Jamaica
PAT WARREN'S relationship with Jamaica is not the typical tale of a tourist who visits the islands in the pursuit of a tropical tan or a simple fun-filled 'no-problem' vacation.She has been visiting Jamaica since the late 1970s and has visited ...

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MIRACLE IN POINT HILL
25 jobs, 1,000 applicants
Tourism industry improving but ...
Personality tests:
New aid to guide students' career choices

Ja can address its economic problems says World Bank
IN A new report, the World Bank said that although Jamaica faces "significant challenges" for a recovery, the country's 'assets', including its labour force and strong social and governance indicators, should serve the country well for improving the...

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With no savings and no pension plan...
What should you be doing in your 40s?
What will the CSME mean for the ordinary man? Part 2
Spliffie Designs looks to make its mark

SA in control
CENTURION, South Africa, CMC: JACQUES KALLIS wrote his name into the record books of South African batsmanship as the hosts piled up another massive total against West Indies on the second day of the fourth and final Test at SuperSport Park yesterday....

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Ja lead Guyana on first innings
Waulgrovians in JNBS semi-finals
ON THE BOUNDARY
One for Fennell, one for Rhone

A constructive role for PTAs
WE ARE pleased that so many members of Parent Teachers Associations (PTAs) from a wide cross-section of schools accepted our invitation to take part in our Editors Forum on the role of these bodies in education. And we are gratified that they so openly..

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'Eddie Seaga is wrong!'
Seaga a liability to the JLP
A new legislative building
The military after the Cold War

LETTER OF THE DAY
What is standard operating procedure?
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE REPORT in the newspapers regarding the 'shooting up' of a vehicle that presumably failed to stop when the driver was signalled to do so by the security...

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Does our Gov't fit in?
Kudos to the RM
Who wrote this poem?
Restoring Garvey's birthplace
An absolute disgrace

BESTFOOTFORWARD
Former supermodels strut catwalk of life
THE JAMAICAN fashion industry has many stars who have been doing well internationally. However, their way has, for the most part, been paved by models who were 'super' long before the term became commonplace.

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'What fall off ah head ...'
'Johnny' gets his own 'Backyaad'
Donald Anderson: The 'Ice Man' cometh

Wilfred Francis
A UNIQUE VISION
WILFRED FRANCIS more affectionately known as 'Jabba' refers to his artistic ability as a gift, which stirs in him an urge that he has no control over...

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ART DIARY
'Curator's Eye' opens today
Jamaica awaits her creators
'Curator's Eye' opens today at National Gallery

Media sniffing Seaga's blood
EDWARD SEAGA might have lost a number of national electoral contests, but the number of contests he has won in his own political party is numerous ­ and growing....-Ian Boyne

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Beating a politically dead man walking?
The shifting centre of reform
POLITICS OF OUR TIME
Getting politics and economics right
Another example of sexual hypocrisy