Save our youths! - Advocate asks teachers to do more to rescue her peers
Jamaica's youth delegate to the United Nations 60th General Assembly has pleaded for the teachers to do more to save the nation's youth, who are involved in numerous troubling incidents. Kemeisha Kelly made the appeal during a function in Montego Bay, St James, on Tuesday...

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Caught in the act on Mount Moreland
I peered over the bushes; nobody. I walked about five paces to my left and glanced up the hill; still nobody. The coast was clear. Now was my chance! I looked across the road at the old, beat up car parked outside the only shop I saw in Mount Moreland, high above sea level in St Catherine.

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NCB barred from closing Olint accounts
The National Commercial Bank (NCB) has been barred from closing the three accounts of investment club Olint Corporation Ltd until its appeal is heard on May 12.Olint is appealing against last month's Supreme Court ruling which turned down its application to prevent NCB ...

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US economy grows marginally 0.6% in first quarter
Confronting the issue of paternity leave

Relegation fight tightens
IN A cruel twist of fate, struggling St Georges struck in time added on to deny August Town three valuable points in a National Premier League relegation battle at Lynch Park yesterday. For 90-plus minutes, last-place August Town, who took the lead through Jermaine Simpson...

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Chelsea advance to final
With Honour upsets in feature
Francis puts faith in Spencer
Wilson pushes forward gold agenda
IAAF urges Jamaica to step up doping tests
JAAA moves date of junior Champs
Chinese lose battle to keep politics out of the Beijing Games

EDITORIAL - Food security and Caribbean integration
WITH MORE than a nudge from global conditions, the wheel, at last, may be about to complete its first circle. And, it is no time to let up. If anything, we should be adding momentum, even as we adjust the paradigm within which the wheel will now have to turn. The context is being provided...

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NOTE-WORTHY: Jamaica needs help too

LETTER OF THE DAY: Queries about regulation of day-care nurseries
THE EDITOR, Sir: CAN ANYONE tell me the legal requirement for operating a nursery and how these are enforced? What are the bases on which nurseries are approved? Are these licensed establishments? Is there a registered list of nurseries which have been approved by the ministry...

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In the abyss of indiscipline
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Dual citizenship and the law
Status of the SD Baptists
Subsidies and food security
Responsibility
Fish or foul
Traffic trauma on Red Hills Road

True Worshippers celebrates first anniversary
The headline artiste was a no-show, the speaker cancelled, a choir member had a death in the family, it seemed almost everything was going wrong. Yet, despite all the disappointments, True Worshippers had a grand anniversary celebration. Dubbed 'Overflow', True Wor-shipers ministry...

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JAMAICA'S FOOD CRISIS - Replacing rice
Jamaicans have somehow convinced themselves that they cannot have a main meal without rice. And we don't even grow it! The time has come to rethink that belief because the grain is facing short supplies all over the world. But Jamaicans need not panic, we are not even utilising...

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Foods that complement
Fast-food nation and the Peter principle!