Men under fire - Brigade entrance test proves too hot
THOUSANDS OF CXC/ GCE O'Level qualified young men seeking to become firefighters in the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) are being rejected each year due to "woefully inadequate" literacy skills, say senior JFB officers.

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Race on to rule post-war Iraq
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Big bucks for Corruption Commission
CARICOM heads to discuss impact of Iraq war
Pro-peace or anti-everything?
The US embassy in Jamaica responds to Iraq issues

Woman drowns in heavy rains
ONE WOMAN died during heavy rains which lashed sections of the island yesterday. The woman was a passenger in a car which was swept away at about 2:00 p.m. in the Cassia Park Gully in St. Andrew.

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Garlic a cure for cancer?
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Two deputy customs commissioners resign
TWO DEPUTY commissioners under the Jamaica Customs Department's modernisation programme have resigned their positions, at least one of them citing frustration with the operations of the revenue agency.

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Employing a professional money manager
Lights out on low prices
Taking it on the Chin
Supreme Ventures sponsors UTech's Research & Technology Day

KC, Holmwood rule
HOLMWOOD TECHNICAL High's girls and Kingston College's boys took the major titles at the 2003 VMBS/ISSA Boys and Girls Championships at the National Stadium last night.

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Gayle dropped for Test
B'dos take command
Premier League heats up
Gayle, Hooper reach semi-finals
Australia enjoy run feast
Zimbabwe defeat Kenya
Gayle and Jamaica, tit for tat

Debt-ridden budget season under way
AMID ANOTHER week of misgivings about the war in Iraq, the Budget season was launched last week with traditional ceremonial. It marked the start of a new parliamentary session which had its own misgivings about the state of the nation ­ and the...

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Future of the United Nations Security Council
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LETTER OF THE DAY - Election returns: Has the Senate been misled?
THE EDITOR, Sir: IT HAS been reported on radio and television and in the press that in answer to questions asked by Senator Trevor Munroe, Senator Burchell Whiteman disclosed in the Senate on Friday, March 28, that more than half of the candidates...

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Putting Iraq on the real estate block
'We are only speaking the truth'
BBC a welcome alternative
'No sympathy for Clifford'
Noisy Kingston 20
'It's rough driving on Ja's streets'
A good deed by Sandals

PANTOMIME PALES for some
WHEN THE Little Theatre Movement (LTM) opened Miss Annie at 6:00 p.m. on Boxing Day, they continued a 62-year-old tradition. The pantomime has been very significant to Jamaican theatre in particular and Jamaican culture in general.

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Corporate Jamaica courts celebrities
Luciano defends ganja, serves Jah
Young gospel music couples bares it all

Architectural landscapes
TITLED "JAMAICA Revisited", the solo display of paintings by artist Heather Sutherland Wade opened at Bolivar Gallery on March 26. The show is a collection of miniature and medium scaled works depicting the old architecture, landscape...

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The best of Jamaica showcased

Sophie's clever idea
IF, IN the next few days, you receive a personally addressed letter in your mailbox outlining the services of a certain Ryde Star Limited, you will know that Sophie Barnett has come calling.

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Happiness for the little things
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Sex, gun and greed Dancehall's threat to society
I AM eager to engage in a sober, rational, dispassionate and intellectually rigorous debate with the defenders of the Jamaican dancehall who have appointed themselves guardians of the people's culture against middle-class incursions.

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The Fifth World generation
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Ja facing challenges