Cash Plus squeezed - 'Suspicious' label delays bank payouts
An apparent decision has been taken by financial institutions to report as suspicious, all funds that come to them through what they describe as "unregistered o schemes", as allowed under the Money Laundering Act. Such a move is believed to be having adverse effects...

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Hats off to upgraded high schools - Two students pass 12 subjects each
Is there salvation from the Church?
The Gleaner
Police seize high-powered weapons
Jacuzzi high? - Cops find ganja concealed in luxury bathtubs for export
Cement company gears up for greater production
Public service still needs improvement - Davis
Mike Henry says ...Big plans ahead for Vernamfield

NSWMA launches 'Clean School' competition
In a bid to protect the environment and minimise the disastrous effects of global warming, the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) on Wednesday launched the 2007-2008 Clean School competition for primary and preparatory schools.

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$30m rehabilitation for police training facilities
Work permit decisions next week
National PTA group blasts curfew plan on children
Marcus Garvey Drive repairs to cost $642m
FEEDBACK - Roving With Lalah
Prime Minister promises better use of development fund in Jamaica
Bulb probe pushes ahead
Abortion report is coming to House
Seeds distributed to farmers
Glow sticks shine in memory of slain kids
Education officer receives Civil Servant award
Inland Revenue officer to face forgery charge
Place HEART/NTA under Ministry of Labour - Professor
Cobb to be guest speaker at Women's Leadership dinner

Theology school to train pastors in forex trading - As church involvement in investment schemes deepens
The investment scheme, LewFam, which joined with Olint Corporation in fighting the Financial Services Commission, has ties to a church group.And another church-related investment club, whose prospectus to potential investors the Financial Gleaner obtained...

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Azan leads 15-member Jampro board
Lascelles drives market higher- Stock trades at newrecord high
Lopez joining First Caribbean- To lead capital markets team
JUTC hunting top executives
Employers owe tax authorities $4b - Thousands fail to pay over PAYE deductions

Billion dollar budget
JAMAICA'S BID to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the development of national programmes is estimated to cost an already cash-strapped Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) just a shade under $1 billion over the next few years....

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Garvey Maceo maintain their winning ways
There really was no need to have fired 'Bora'
Campbell, Goule collect awards for their schools
Coach fired after England's loss
Big teams could play in same group
Take Sneaky Sis
Walker suspended for two racedays
Toba yearling sale revisited
Twenty20 war set to grip India
FROM THE BOUNDARY - Let's listen to Greig and Chappell
Pakistan exhale after Misbah-ul-Haq comes to the rescue
Holmes still paying for jab at legend

EDITORIAL - Shrines of heroes amid urban squalor
It is entirely possible, and perhaps true, that Mayor Desmond McKenzie of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) did not know of the absence of functioning lights in sections of St. William Grant Park in downtown Kingston. We did not address that specific...

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Needed: a morality drive
Things have to change
NOTE-WORTHY: Positive thinking

LETTER OF THE DAY: The case for selling Air Jamaica in 2008
The Editor, Sir: The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) made it quite clear that they were interested in ridding the country of this 'burden' that uses up as much as 10 per cent of our GDP to maintain. Over the past decade, Air Jamaica has accumulated a deficit of over US$1 billion...

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Saved from the flood
Crybabies indeed!
Mayor in the dark
Portia as victim
Hang them publicly
Unproductivity

Yendi still hot pick
Miss Jamaica World Yendi Phillipps continues to be a favourite among bookmakers and pageant insiders at the Miss World pageant in China.Phillipps has not fallen out of the top 10 contenders for the crown in a feature dubbed 'The Royal Flush'.

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Big plans scare young Hammond
Moral issues in The Kingdom

Slovakia's big day, Jamaican style
Peter Mihok described it best when he said "short speeches and long sausages". Mihok is the president of Slovakia's Chamber of Commerce and Industry and said that phrase was his country's motto when having receptions. And since he was speaking at his country's national day reception...

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La Chaine Des Rotisseurs ...Celebrating fine dining, outstanding members
Great vibes delight guests at wine and cheese party
Of wines, spirits and food
An evening of soup and mento

104 fall ill after having lunch... worms found in macaroni pie
Port-of-Spain (Trinidad Express): Meals of macaroni pie, in which worms were said to have been found, are to be tested, after 103 schoolchildren and a teacher fell ill on Wednesday after eating the pie for lunch. Apart from the pie, samples of saffron rice and red beans...

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Gov't moves to reopen island's second airport
Three rearrests in missing student's case

Rice's skills as Mideast mediator face serious test
WASHINGTON D.C.: Condoleezza Rice taught crisis management at Stanford University, but experts say the top United States (US) diplomat will need more than academic prowess to mediate an end to six decades of Israeli-Palestinian...

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Earl Paulk sex scandals continue
Romney is tough sell for many US Christians