Lead Stories
Portia Simpson Miller challenges the media

MINISTER OF Tourism and Sport, Portia Simpson Miller, yesterday delivered both encouragement and a rebuke to local media professionals and communication consultants. Challenging them to use their power and influence to promote positive values and...

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Fuss over search
Inmates 'fell from their hammocks...
Port cargo rising
E-normous role in Ja for Net
Production train a PR gimmick

News
Warders hearing adjourn prematurely

THE HEARINGS into the charges of indiscipline brought against some 800 prison warders by the Govern-ment adjourned prematurely on Monday, without a single witness being heard. The hearings were adjourned to July 31, after lawyers from the...

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Manley Monument in progress
High spirits on Wildman Street
Role of the Church defined
Jamaica and Ireland talk co-operation

Business
Credit valued at $662m

THE HOLDING company, which controls Capital & Credit Merchant Bank, has been valued at around $662 million, as the National Insurance Fund is poised to buy a 27.2 per cent stake in the banking group. Negotiations are said to be at an "advanced...

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Margins rise but loans fall
Life of Ja near to FINSAC deal
Am I being unfair?

Sport
Big challenge ahead says Oliveira

NEW technical director of Jamaica's football programme, Brazilian Clovis de Oliveira, arrived in the island yesterday to whip the Reggae Boyz in shape to mount a strong challenge for one of three places from Football Confederation (formerly CONCACAF) for.

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WICB clears Lara
Ja drubbed 13-0
No link says Wallace
New sponsors for 72nd St. Leger

Commentary
Healthy WHO ranking
JAMAICA'S HEALTH system ranking of 53 in the World Health Report 2000, when placed in a context of the country's expenditure on health as compared with the more developed countries, is not a mean achievement. For instance, of the 191 countries in...

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Let the people decide - Delroy Chuck
Big up the fisherfolk! - Peter Espeut

Letters
For the common good
THE EDITOR, Madam: I DISAGREE with your editorial of Friday June 23 on PM Patterson's Cairo presentation. We should all be proud that this global leadership position has come out of Jamaica, like so many of earth's firsts. Concerns for social justice...

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Kudos for Courtney Richards
Disarmament and the JDF

Entertainment
Stitchie's debut gospel album out

THE DEBUT GOSPEL album from converted DJ Lt. Stitchie is finally on the shelves. The album, entitled Real Power, took him three years to complete. And the artiste said he had to overcome a lot of financial difficulties in order to get the album on the...

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Lloyd Parkes and Startime part ways
'Glory Music' train on the run

Star Page
Ambitious, but can't make headway

Dear Pastor, I am 20 years old, but very soon I will be 21. I am writing this letter with tears in my eyes. I am going through a very difficult time. I believe that stress is going to kill me.

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High note end National Music Finals
ENTERTAINMENT DIARY SHOWS & DANCES
Vibe Zone

Profiles in Medicine
Food storage

So what's for dinner today? Is it meat that was thawed outside the refrigerator, perhaps on the kitchen counter? Then, chances are the people who eat this meal are being exposed to all sorts of pathogens. Audrey Morris, Caribbean Food and Nutrition...

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Balancing out the calories
MEN'S HEALTH