Walker for Commish? - EOJ boss heads shortlist for top cop in Jamaica
Director of Elections, Danville Anthony Walker, has been named among the shortlisted candidates to succeed Lucius Thomas as Commissioner of Police at the end of the month, Gleaner sources say. The other candidates are Deputy Commissioner of Police Charles Scarlett...

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Officers bid farewell to Thomas
Flood waters force residents into shelter
Jones took a lot from me - Lawrence
Veronica Campbell - A star on and off the track
St Mary, St Ann champs ready
Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) uneasy with Reid ministry appointment

Hustle and bustle of the Linstead Market
I stood there at the side of the road between a steady stream of brown water in a partially clogged gutter and a skinny man with oversized ears, transfixed by the shocking display in front of me. Across the road from where I was standing, was a man leaning against a wooden cart....

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Start date unclear for Bogue roadwork - NWA unable to say when dualisation of main road to begin.
Pegasus back to normal by month end
Public reacts to call for military draft
Justice Wright dies at 82
The hottest topics on the cocktail circuit
Gunmen claim three in St James

Alcoa's 3Q profits rise
Alcoa Inc. ushered in earnings season by reporting a three per cent profit rise despite slumping revenue. The aluminium producer's sale of a stake in a Chinese aluminium company helped lift its results. Still, company shares fell about $1.52, or nearly four per cent....

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JUTC managers get walking papers

Fair Prospect, St Thomas move on
WESTERN BUREAU: FAIR PROSPECT and St. Thomas joined Port Antonio and Seaforth in the four-team play-off to decide the two inter-zone places from Zone L of the ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel daCosta Cup yesterday when they registered decisive 5-2 and 2-0 wins against Morant Bay and Titchfield ....

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Hi-Pro Ace to the fore on October 15
The painful price of coming clean
St George's eye second round
Thompson prepares for Heroes Day speed meet
Big medal haul at Special Olympics
Ferguson lashes out against Jones
Smith puts S Africa in command
Cook leads England to victory
$5m target for SACC this year

EDITORIAL - Jamaica's interest and the Marion Jones confession
Jamaica has more than a passing interest in Marion Jones' confession of being an athletics drug-cheat and what will surely be her disqualification from her placings at the 2000 Sydney Games. She has already, quite appropriately, returned the five medals she won.

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Asses, donkeys, an archbishop and God
Is the US election over?
NOTE-WORTHY: Thanks, Uncle Ken

LETTER OF THE DAY - Gunmen poised to kill more children
The Editor, Sir: The headlines in The Gleaner of Wednesday, October 10, simply said, 'Fire for bullets, Gunmen hunt children with firebombs'. The story by Glenroy Sinclair on page A3 read 'Gunmen are anxious to kill another child, in reprisal for one of two children who were killed....

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A barrel of frustration
Representation denied!
The death penalty
No shame in mental illness
What purpose, these curfews?
The solution to our crime problem

$500,000 to dancehall king, queen
The slap of a chopper slicing through a chicken bone and hitting the platter underneath, cutting through the Toni Braxton and Cobra remake of 'You Make Me High' in the process, was as much an announcement as the formal proceedings at the Asylum Night Club on Tuesday evening....

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YENDI - Simply hot

Delectable dishes at 'Best of Jamaica'
Grand Lido Braco hosted the Fifth Annual 'Best of Jamaica, which came to an end last Sunday.Of course, no one could highlight Jamaica without showcasing the tasty meals crafted by our foreparents and continued by our creative...

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A Robert Oliver's feast at home!