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Sex text scrapped - Ministry pulls controversial book from high schools

"ARE THESE people insane?" one father asked The Gleaner yesterday. "My son just started high school and this is supposed to be his introduction?"

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Tension grips PNP - Party leadership to face unhappy Comrades

STRICKEN BY internal criticisms of leadership crisis, the top brass of the People's National Party (PNP) is today expected to be confronted by lingering resentment and discontent from some Comrades at its private session at Jamaica College.

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VETS FIGHT ON - Ex-soldiers live under trying circumstances at Curphey Home

THE POLITICAL rights and freedoms enjoyed by Jamaicans are often taken for granted with little acknowledgement of the thousands of Jamaican men and women who fought in distant lands in the two world wars to preserve them.

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Making a positive change in Maggotty

THE MAGGOTTY Environs Development Committee and Benevolent Society is working to transform the town of Maggotty and the 52 surrounding districts.

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'Gotta' keep pressing on - 5-y-o refuses to let disability hold him back

DORRETT HUNT was traumatised for days after her first and only child, Joshua Bryan, was born at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston on October 24, 2006.

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Manwell assists with training medical personnel

THE MANCHESTER Wellness Foundation (MANWELL) has answered the clarion call to assist with training nurses and doctors at the Mandeville Regional Hospital to use a cardiac monitor along with an electrocardiogram (ECG) machine to treat patients who have suffered acute cardiac events such as heart attacks.

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Portland college forms South Africa ties

THE COLLEGE of Agriculture Science and Education (CASE) in Portland, on Wednesday hosted South Africa's minister of higher education and training, Dr Bonginkosi Emmanuel Nzimande, who toured the facility and met with the college's administrators.