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1 min ago | The Gleaner

Sax Appeal tries to break party monotony - MoBay organisers seek sponsor support

Business partners Alvin McBean and Ruedal Johnson of Wi Deh Ya Productions. The duo is responsible for the Sax Appeal jazz show in Montego Bay, St James.

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Related Topix: World News, Jazz & Blues, Jazz

4 hrs ago | The Gleaner

Joyce Robinson: institution builder

The late Honourable Joyce Lilieth Robinson , who died on Sunday, May 12, aged 87, was essentially two persons - the dedicated public servant who stamped her brand on empowerment through education, and the devoted family member and friend for whom no favour was too difficult or inconvenient to grant.

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Related Topix: Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, World News, Central America, Libraries

5 hrs ago | The Gleaner

Corporate Jamaica ready to work

Administrator at the home, Jacinth Bonner, said a number of roofs to the cottages need repair as very often they would leak.

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5 hrs ago | The Gleaner

Rum tax staggering

Locally owned businesses continue to operate at a significant disadvantage, as a direct result of misguided government policies which allow for tax incentives and waivers to multinationals while taxing the local operations mercilessly.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Beer, Drink

8 hrs ago | The Gleaner

This Day In Our Past: May 22, 1974

Prime Minister Michael Manley announcing plans for a workers resort development to a press conference at Jamaica House on May 22, 1974.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News

11 hrs ago | Jamaica Observer

UK-based rapper shoots video in MoBay

COMING British female rap artiste Amplify Dot created a stir in sections of the resort city of Montego Bay last week, during a video shoot to promote her latest single, I'm Good, a collab with Busta Rhymes, which features Buju Banton's Walk Like a Champion.

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Related Topix: World News, St. Lucie, FL

Wed May 22, 2013

The Gleaner

Panton and partners acquire KIG

A group of investors, including chief executive officer of Progressive Motors, Jeffrey Panton, has acquired Kingston Industrial Garage , Jamaica's oldest car dealership and one of the remaining assets Lascelles deMercado has sought to divest.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News

UDaily

Blue Hens James, Idris to compete at NCAA track and field regionals

University of Delaware women's outdoor track & field standouts Latoya James and Amira Idris have extended their seasons for at least one more week as both will compete at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field East Regional Championship this week at North Carolina A&T University.

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Related Topix: University of Delaware, Stockholm, NJ, University of Oregon, Eastern College

Jamaica Observer

Preparing for the hurricane season

A: Plan ahead and take responsibility for your own safety before an emergency arises.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News, FEMA, US News, Hurricane, Natural Disasters

The Gleaner

Mystery surrounds policeman's death

Nickeisha McDonald, common-law wife of Constable Richardo 'Shawn' McKay and mother of two of his four children, is not ready to accept the theory that he had accidentally shot himself.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, World News,

The Gleaner

New senator wants CCJ as final court

AFTER SITTING in the well of the Senate for more than two hours on Friday, watching as the members showered accolades on new president Floyd Morris, Sophia Frazer-Binns took the oath of office pledging to do all she can to advance the cause of Jamaica's development.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News

The Gleaner

JEEP tackles zinc fence

THE JAMAICA Emergency Employment Programme has taken over the zinc fence-removal programme, an initiative of former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News

Tue May 21, 2013

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Zojak World Wide Artists To Receive Broadcast And Digital Radio...

Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, the leading media company in the country with a greater reach than any other radio or television outlet, and Zojak World Wide, a company at the forefront of digital music distribution, announced a partnership that will enable Zojak's artists to receive revenue from Clear Channel's digital and broadcast radio ... (more)

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Related Topix: World News

The Gleaner

Music research project secures funding

Earl Jarrett, chairman of the JN Foundation , hands a copy of a signed contract to Rosina Moder, executive director of Music Unites Foundation, to provide funding for a two-year initiative to research and document the works and life of Jamaican composers of classical and patriotic music, as well as composers of church, dance and theatre music.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Classical, Arts, Opera, New York

Jamaica Observer

How Senate President Floyd Morris overcame the horrible sentence of blindness

SENATOR Floyd Emerson Morris continued his climb up the ladder of history on May 17, 2013 when he was sworn in as the first blind president of the Jamaican Senate.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News

Mon May 20, 2013

Jamaica Observer

What's trending for 2013? - Andre Shirley designs

He's still stitching his way in a competitive, demanding and fickle business but twenty-nine year old Andre Shirley who has a decade of design under his belt remains undaunted.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News

Jamaica Observer

What violence-torn St James, nay all Jamaica, can learn from Flanker

It's easily and readily recognised that good, proactive leadership is essential to the organisation of any society.

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Related Topix: Travel, Jamaica Travel, Caribbean Travel, World News, Agriculture, Science, Breakfast, Life, Food, Opinion

Environmental News Network

Record number of Jamaican Iguanas released as part of ongoing...

The International Iguana Foundation today announced the release of a record 52 Jamaican Iguanas in April.

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The Gleaner

Jamaican Bar Association seminar set for June 14-16

The Jamaican Bar Association's penultimate weekend seminar takes place between June 14 and 16 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort, Ocho Rios, St Ann.

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The Gleaner

Senate president's resignation sends wrong signals - G2K

GeneraTION 2000, the affiliate group of young professionals of the Jamaica Labour Party, is contending that the "forced resignation" of Senate President Stanley Redwood has sent the wrong message to struggling Jamaicans who have no means of escape.

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