Happy 45th, Jamaica! - Bucknor, Blair OJs - Among six to get fourth highest National Honour
World-renowned cricket umpire Steve Bucknor and Bishop Herro Blair are among six citizens who will be bestowed with the Order of Jamaica - the fourth highest award - on National Heroes Day. Bucknor, who will receive the award for outstanding contribution in sports, and Blair...

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Jamaica alive and kicking at 45
Forty-five years ago our founding fathers charged us to "go into the world [and] stand on our own feet and make our own way forward by hard work and discipline". The charge is as relevant today as it was then.

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Ernest McFarlane, a mid-island developer, plans to carve 121 housing lots from a 90-acre property that lies between Old Harbour and May Pen, but still has to hurdle environment and planning agencies. The Lancewood Valley property up to now has been...

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EDITORIAL - A message of hope in despair
Today, Jamaica marks its 45th anniversary as a nation at one of the most crucial times, not only in our lives but in the wider world. Wars and rumours of wars persist. There is concern for the very existence of planet Earth in the threat of global warming.

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LETTER OF THE DAY - A country performing beyond expectations
THE EDITOR, Sir: I am a proud patriot, and I love this country. I have options to make my living across the Atlantic, but have chosen to do so on this blessed rock. While the official per capita income and GDP growth rate statistics have not been flattering...

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RTI - Non-stop partying!
WESTERN BUREAU: What was promised to be the biggest weekend party in Negril, Westmoreland, kicked off to a fine and promising start last Friday night. Thousands of teenagers descended on the venue at Mariner's Beach Club along the Norman Manley Boulevard, bringing traffic to a snarl...

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Happy Independence Day
Jamaica has much to celebrate as we mark yet another year of independence. Our rich heritage and culture will be on everyone's lips today as national festival activities climax with special events across the island. One of the annual activities that has stood the test...

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