'Draconian laws' - Human-rights lobbyist outs Golding's anti-crime plan
GOVERNMENT INTENDS to amend the Bail Act to prevent persons charged with gun offences from obtaining bail within the first 90 days of being arrested. There is also a plan to require mandatory sentencing for specified offences. Prime Minister Bruce Golding is to make these announcements...

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What's Right with Jamaica
The Rod: Beating stick or method of correction? (Part 2)
Call for Kern info snubbed
Tougher rules to collarill-equipped fishermen - Search continues for missing seamen
Domestic violence statistics alarming
4ever loved - footsteps of the Hird quadruplets
Injured cop recovers in hospital
Flooding

'Marley's music kept me going' - Teenager gets wish to visit icon's homeland
WESTERN BUREAU: Seventeen-year-old Stefan Tulner of the Netherlands got the wish of his life - to visit Bob Marley's country. Stefan says Marley's music has kept him going in his fight against cancer. Stefan was vacationing at the Starfish Resort in Trelawny, last week...

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Police probing Sumfest ticket fraud
Learning to handle emotions
Call to 'involve' Jamaican diaspora
New court date set for alleged cop killers
Help! My son is sticking to diapers
'Change lifestyle to save youth'
PNP must unite to take back power - Portia
First-time MP calls for return of hanging
Man freed of double murder for lack of evidence

Teenager makes career through game website
Seventeen-year-old Gordon O'Brien Swaby, a computer fanatic who describes himself as "a little beyond the average teenager," has grown up always wanting to be the best in whatever he does. Born November 18, 1990, to Olivene and Lloyd Swaby at the Hargreaves Memorial...

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Regional leaders face hurdles in push for economic union
'Jamaica to gain billions from European tourism'
Portland PC to beef up revenue collection

Spinners deliver the advantage to Jamaica
FRIENDSHIP, Barbados (CMC): Spinners Jermaine Blackwood and Donovan Nelson shared eight wickets to help Jamaica grab first innings points from champions Guyana on the second day of their TCL Group West Indies Under-19 fourth-round match...

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Bolt and Powell to clash in Stockholm
Wilkins wins Jamaica's second gold
Campbell-Brown clocks another sub-22 in Barcelona
Tournament aims to showcase region's best talent
Rose pips Campbell for crown
Wilson misses triple crown at Pan Am championships
Port Royal Bulls a perfect 10
Taylor scores seventh goal in Notodden FK's 1-1 draw
Premiership club chasing Stern John
Triple triumph for Maragh at Belmont
Good grades an asset to securing scholarship - Henry
Stephenson on the move to Norway
Roen Nelson back on target in T&T

EDITORIAL - Taking rape seriously
Mr Denver Frater, the assistant commissioner of police, who last Thursday unveiled the constabulary's latest 'most-wanted' list, noted with a seeming sense of accomplishment that the list included three rapists and child molesters. That these alleged criminals were marked...

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Extortion solution?
NOTE-WORTHY

LETTER OF THE DAY: Bridge-building jars gentle Gordon Town
The Editor, Sir: Here is a question for budding mathematicians and CXC exam-takers: "How long will it take one man with a jackhammer to destroy a very large river boulder?" I can't provide you with the weight or size of the massive boulder, or the penetrative scope ...

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A united front against crime
The Phillips challenge
Complaints from coffee 'cartel'
Post pics of wanted men
Phone service disruption
Leading from the front with good examples

Beres a step ahead at Sumfest
WESTERN BUREAU: It's conclusive. There has never been a disappointing moment when prolific songwriter/singer Beres Hammond performs, at least as far as recent recollection goes. And, it was no different as the curtains came down at Reggae Sumfest in Montego Bay...

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Akon, Keyshia Cole hot at fest
Rain falls on Festival Queen parade - 'Dancefest' also affected by weekend showers
Roy Shirley passes away
NDTC hails UWI at 60
Something extra

Bernadette Barrow, the SME dynamo at NCB
Don't be fooled by her tiny frame and pretty face. Beneath the beauty lies a brilliant financial brain, and the National Commercial Bank's (NCB's) Bernadette Barrow packs a powerful business punch. She is now assistant general manager - Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)...

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Jamaican gets CARICOM award
Fe-mail Ties: The power of iconic style
LAWS OF EVE - Joint ownership of property
KELLY'S WORLD - Place mash up now!
FASHION: Glamorous in every way
The scaffold piercing
Crossing the trenches
The Reality of HIV/AIDS - Diary of an HIV-positive/pregnant girl
Morti weds his boasty girl
MJW '08 finalists chosen