Education heads meet - Minister, principals to discuss heated issues
Education Minister Andrew Holness and members from the Association of Principals and Vice-Principals are scheduled to meet this Thursday to discuss a number of educational issues, including the controversial matter of auxiliary fees....

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Joy Town foundation brightens lives in inner city
Male to male sex hurting Caribbean - Report shows homosexuality major cause of HIV transmissions
Men caught in a tight spot - Motorcycles, figure-hugging pants increase risk of male infertility
Corporate Jamaica applauds CCTV surveillance move
Invest in our schools - Education minister urges private sector, diaspora to give to education
St James custos suffers stroke
Constable sentenced to five years for sex offence
Mixed response to new juror selection policy

UWI Press releases Barclay's Bank study
The University of the West Indies (UWI) Press has published what it is labelling the first study of a major bank in the Caribbean. Depression to Decolonization: Barclays Bank (DCO) in the West Indies, 1926-1962, written by Kathleen Monteith, senior lecturer at the UWI...

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Besotted with Betty
Improve training, decrease crime - G o l d i n g
PIOJ receives development tips from residents
New additions made to NHFcard drug list
New ROOMS open today

Salada 9:1 stock split - Analysts say action may be futile
Salada Foods, the Jamaican firm that manufactures and packages instant coffee, is planning to a nine-to-one share split aimed, the company says, at creating liquidity in the stock. But while welcoming the move to stimulate trading in Salada, analysts warned yesterday...

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Crawford delivers offshore report - Jamaica recruiting IFSC manager
Lascelles to market Angostura products
The new BNS boss
NCB scores big - But Hylton expects slowdown in periods ahead
Trinidad stock exchange to trade depositary receipts
Cuban tourism FDI limited, but earnings grow
Trade talks collapse after compromise rejected - India, China, US at odds
Making choice easier

Five-star performance - Jamaicans rule sprints, hurdles at Monaco Grand Prix
MONACO (CMC): Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell sent another stern warning ahead of next month's Beijing Olympics with a comfortable win, while compatriots Kerron Stewart, Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Danny McFarlane and Melaine Walker joined him in the winners' row ...

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Grange urges athletes to stay 'drug free'
Less overseas-based Reggae Boyz for Canada game
'We've to move on' - Fennell charges Jamaicans to focus on positives
Big names still flying the flag high
Guyana, Barbados win
'We did ourselves proud'
Whyte wins in Ireland
Skeet Club targets membership

EDITORIAL - Getting to the big ideas
We may get from the People's National Party (PNP), after all, the substantive discourse which most Jamaicans hope will characterise the leadership contest between the incumbent, Mrs Portia Simpson Miller and Dr Peter Phillips, one of her deputies. It is no secret that the PNP...

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Going for broke
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LETTER OF THE DAY - Foreign influx seen as 'great betrayal'
The Editor, Sir: Even as I continue to bemoan the declining spirit of nationalism in Jamaica, I am reading in you paper that yet another major institution is to be led by an imported official. In this case, it is a financial institution at the pinnacle of influence ...

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Taking actionon land titles
Ackee gets the national title
Valid point about graduations
... They should be joyous
Closing of those schemes?
Public flogging but no hanging
Dealing with auxiliary fees

Musical trail blazers shine
At a concert on Sunday, two of Jamaica's promising young classical singers were compared to our Olympics-bound athletes. Like the latter, Filicia Morrison and Sadiki Burton are ready to "blaze a trail in the world," said University of the West Indies Professor Alvin Wint...

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Something extra
Song, speech at Miss Jamaica Festival Queen finals
Katrina Grant reigns...amid great performances
Miss Jamaica World contestants sashed

The eagle has landed - Eric's life with schizophrenia
With impeccable manners, Eric ushered me into Mensana's office (the support group for families living with mental illness) and pointed to a spot on the large sofa where I could sit comfortably. He collected a small pile of paper from a nearby wooden table and sat at the other end...

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Those painful kidney stones - Response to reader's question
Oral sex does transmit infections - Response to reader's question
Where's my money? - Finance schemes in limbo, people are grieving
Exercise the larger muscle groups first
Home-made diabetic drinks - Response to reader's question

UN human rights official visits Guyana
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC): A senior official of the United Nations Human Rights Council has arrived in Guyana on a five-day visit to observe programmes being implemented by Guyana in the context of the country's diverse ethnic population...

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Residents evacuated as volcano belches ash
Court rules in favour of group of citizens
Guyana to distribute UN funds toward plants

Court convicts seven Bosnian Serbs of genocide
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP): The Bosnian War Crimes court convicted seven Bosnian Serbs of genocide yesterday and gave them long prison sentences for their actions during the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica.

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Democratic convention brings logistical challenges to Denver