Newborn fills void - Couple says prayer answered
HOPE SHONE brightly for a couple at 1:58 yesterday morning when Rihanna Stacey-Anna Wilson was born at the Spanish Town Hospital, filling a void that was created two years ago when they lost their seven-year-old daughter in a motor vehicle accident.
- Birth registration spike
- 'It's God's work' - Proud mother says bus-driving heroine was moved by the Creator
- New policy coming to stop runaways
- Turbulent year ahead, say prophets
- Four killed on New Year's Day
Howard to be honoured
Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus driver Annette Howard will be given a national award, Prime Minister Bruce Golding revealed Thursday.
- Church leads the change - Tries to get more help to improve August Town
- Across the Nation
- First new birtths for 2010
- Gospel singer gets revelation for the Church?
Increased rates explained - Tax department outlines how they will be applied
THE TAX Administration Services Department (TASD) is advising that the increase in personal income tax rate will be applied to all individuals earning above $5 million per annum.
- Omar's New Year wish list - Procurement waivers, cheap factory space, single-digit interest rates
- New decade, new plan for coffee - Agriculture ministry spearheads Asia marketing strategy
$10 million for 'Champs' celebrations
With 81 days to go before the start of the 100th staging of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Athletics Championships, organisers are preparing to shell out at least $10 million towards celebratory activities leading up to the special staging.
- Sky is the limit for Under-20 Reggae Girl
- In Your Neighbourhood
- Cavalier, Santos in Super clash
- Teammates pull guns on each other
- 'Confident' WI Under-19 aim for title
- Gayle watches as Western Australia lose again
- Women footballers need nutritional supplements
- Bennett says trio has to live with the 'consequences'
- Chief to rule in ninth race
- Ellis rides four-timer
- Ramgeet wins at Tampa Bay
- Backward move! ... Roberts, Benjamin, Ambrose knock WICB on move to shorten four-day tournament
- PM Golding bats for cricket clubs
- Young assistant coach giving something back to the game
EDITORIAL - Call for a summit on illegal guns
The police operation which resulted in the deaths of four men and the capture of 10 high-powered weapons earlier this week confirms that the roughly four-year war being waged on the guns-for-drugs trade with Haiti is far from over.
LETTER OF THE DAY - Regularise and tax land capturers
The Editor, Sir: It is a disgrace that government lands that have been captured are in the hands of many Jamaicans for more than five years, and that these people have been allowed to construct solid, concrete houses, some two storeys high, with not titles to show. What is the Government going to do?
- NOTE-WORTHY - Watch the money
- A Sabbath-keeper's grouse
- Curbing the crime problem
- Missing the point ...
Etana and RE TV launch music video competition
Reggae singer Etana is launching an exclusive music-video competition on reggae-based network RETV this week, which is centred on three of her newly filmed music videos - August Town, Free and Happy Heart.
Doctor's' advice - Do her boyfriend's hormones cause his infidelity?
My boyfriend's behaviour is disgraceful! I thought I could trust him, but I can't. I met him a year ago, and we fell in love immediately. I thought that we would be sexually faithful to each other for life. But six months ago, I discovered that he had a 'one night stand' in Port Antonio.
Nutrition and weak bones
The condition of weakened bones is known as osteoporosis. Mayoclinic.com defines osteoporosis as "porous bones", a condition which "causes bones to become weak and brittle - so brittle that even mild stresses like bending over, lifting a vacuum cleaner or coughing can cause a fracture.
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