Job rush - Thousands flock warder recruitment centre
Thousands of job applicants turned out at the headquarters of the Christian Fellowship Outreach Ministry in St Andrew yesterday morning, hoping to snatch a place among the 200 being recruited as warders for the Department of Correctional Services....

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Parliament tables libel review committee report
People's National Party (PNP) more united than ever - Simpson Miller
Call to fire up youth for Christ
Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) honours outstanding past members
Central Kingston educators cry out against violence - Police stats show over 480 killed islandwide since January
Education Ministry admits error in GSAT scholarship award
The Manley Memoirs - Four days to go!
4-H Clubs impress agriculture minister

Drug relief imminent at public health facilities in Jamaica
Patients who are unable to get certain types of medication in public pharmacies across the island are to soon to get relief as the Ministry of health and environment moves this week to review the vital, essential and necessary (VEN) list. The World Health Organisation recommend...

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Cops struggle to find Peter King exhibits
People's National Party (PNP) to celebrate 70 years
KC, St George's old boys decry violence
Clerics rebuke Government for casinos
Jamaicans asked to cut salt intake
THE CASINO DEBATE - Gambling, solution to high public debt?
Casino gambling is going to be another Cash Plus
'We're not into it, Mr Prime Minister'
Move beyond your fear

'Bring it on!' - Hylton supports commission of enquiry - Finsac audit put off for now
Patrick Hylton, former managing director of the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC), says a commission of enquiry into the financial meltdown would clear up misinformation about the events, and was, for him, welcome. "I have no issues with a commission...

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Supreme Ventures shelves expansion plans - Five new gaming lounges on hold
Used-car dealers predict erosion of three-to-four per cent profit margin
Pulse seeking cash to grow - Rights issue targets $127m
Researcher develops $2b plan for photovoltaics - Proposes households switch to solar energy
US firm to make diesel fuel from Brazilian sugarcane - Target output one billion gallons per year
Brady backs away from CMP Industries
Riding the info highway

Asafa will have to trip Gay - J o h n s o n
ASAFA POWELL will have to 'trip' Tyson Gay if he intends to win the Olympic Games 100m title, according to world 200m and 400m record holder Michael Johnson. In a chat room discussion on the IAAF website on Monday, Johnson, a many-time Olympic champion, was asked...

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Fast Flyer will be too good for 'Sonny'
North Gully community shining in St James
Inner-City Avalanche capture Western basketball title
Under-15 themes are teamwork, discipline
Man United secure spot in final
Rafa worried about referees
Relegation battle in the spotlight
Things not looking good for St Georges
Orlando Magic head to second-round play-offs
Pat Riley loses the Heat
Under 21 Sunshine Girls to face Aussies
West Indies advance to semis

EDITORIAL - Making a meal of tax collection
JOHN ISSA, head of the SuperClubs hotel chain, has gone on about it for perhaps three decades. And he has been right. For it is a fact that pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) employees, who represent relatively few of all the people who earn taxable income in Jamaica, carry a disproportionate...

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An impending general election?
Constitution still not a shackle
NOTE-WORTHY: NHT deficit

LETTER OF THE DAY: Deforestation caused Ocho Rios debacle
THE EDITOR, Sir: IT IS with much concern that I write to you to posit another insight into the debacle which took place in the resort town of Ocho Rios recently. We have seen examples of, and spoken of, similar issues that affect our neighbours, Haiti. The level of deforestation...

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Growing rice, 'oasis in a desert'
Resisting gay pressure
Cassava linked to weight gain
Problems with C&W service
Prospects for food crops
Curbing theft of livestock

Another milestone for Pulse - Sunna goes Vogue
Model Sunna Gottshalk is the 10th Pulse model to be featured in one of fashion's most important publications, Vogue magazine. Apearing in the French, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish and American editions, the Pulse supermodels have made their mark on Vogue with a list...

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Something extra

He had a heart attack at age 21
Gini Ikwuezunma collapsed on the locker room floor shortly after completing a rigorous game of US college football. "It was hot on that day and some players were collapsing because of the heat and lack of hydration. However, shortly after that I was diagnosed as having had a mild heart attack...

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Root canal - An alternative to extraction
Control your weight by eating breakfast
Gardening for pleasure & health
Response to reader's question on Exercising after surgery
Rice rationing and local energy options