A mother's grief - Woman mourns sexual assault and murder of 11-year-old son
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland: Overwhelmed with grief, Ketura Bennett yesterday recalled the good times she shared with her son, Christopher Suckra, whose body was found hours earlier in cane fields at Blue Castles, near Georges Plain, in Westmoreland...

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Mean streets did not break Steele - Education, determination pay off for finance director
Hanover ahead in land tax compliance
Four children fatherless after Green Pond killings
A strong Jamaican heart
LIME warns of global mobile scam
Police nab more than 100 gangsters this year

Digicel gets wireless subscriber TV licence
Digicel and two other companies are getting ready to soak up a portion of the subscriber television market, after receiving an islandwide wireless subscriber television licence from the Broadcasting Commission this week. The licence, which was announced...

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Court frees former cop
Electrician gets life sentence for double murder
Funeral for Byron Balfour today
UDC selling Jamaica Pegasus
Changes to US non-immigrant visa application service
Computer technician freed of murder charge
Attack on women will reverse progress made - Grange

Changing of the guard at Broilers - Williams, Levy to step down in February
Raby Danvers 'Danny' Williams is expected to give up his chairmanship of the Jamaica Broilers Group early next year, but the five-decade-old poultry company is making plans to link his name to the business through a lifelong directorship....

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Incomplete! - Falmouth port deal not fully financed
Carlton Savannah REIT seeks new identity
Stock market investors trade $99m
Within LIME Jamaica, a new direction- spending smarter for better returns
Crippled by crisis, developed countries
Ciboney shareholders grow impatient
Recession andthe 'never,never' customer
COMMENTARY - JSE junior market, a new lifeline to capital

Jamaica lose opener
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):A NEAR run-a-ball half-century from Tamar Lambert carried holders Jamaica close, but Barbados kept their composure and completed a 21-run victory in the WICB Cup one-day competition yesterday. The Jamaica captain hit 76 from 82...

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King for Canada match
Boyz profiles
Alsafra in Puerto Rico
Knights defend crown - KFC National Basketball league finals
Lacovia through to quarters
St Mary to host champs
A new structure on way for WICB
Arnett, Village in 1-1 draw
Manning Cup battle heats up

EDITORIAL - Time to end the victimisation of women
Maybe we ought not to be surprised that a parliamentary committee is still dithering over the proposals for a new abortion law.For what, fundamentally, is at play here, is the fear by politicians of the tyranny of the religious fundamentalists...

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Reason, not outrage
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LETTER OF THE DAY - Death penalty politics and the conscience vote
The Editor, Sir: With the rising levels of crime, there are new calls for the death penalty. Last year, then Attorney General, A. J. Nicholson, was accused and criticised by then Shadow Minister on National Security Derrick Smith as being a coward...

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What the people want is the key
What if the wrong person is hanged?
When satan found a loophole
Perils of parking crackdown
Don't blame the church
Switching colours and all that jazz
Alarming abductions

Pulse's model search down to dazzling dozen
As the world celebrated the election of the first black United States president last week, the contestants in Pulse's reality TV series, Caribbean Model Search (CMS) got caught up in their own electoral fever. In a drama filled episode, Raquel Smith...

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Something extra
Bigger, better 'Stars R Us'

Out and about
Last week was special for graduates of the University of the West Indies, Mona. When the caps and gowns came off, principal Gordon Shirley hosted guests at cocktails at the Mona Visitors' Lodge on Saturday evening.

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Dining out is in!
JCC didn't drop the 'ball'
Cocktails by the sea

US vice-presidents get together
WASHINGTON (AP): The high-profile White House meeting this week between outgoing and incoming United States (US) presidents is being followed Thursday night by a much lower-key get-together hosted by Vice-President Dick Cheney for his successor...

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Palin plays down talk of 2012 presidential run