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Pushing water uphill in Jamaica
Howard Chin 
April 4, 2010
Remember Sisyphus of Greek mythology? His task in Hades being to forever push a rock uphill that immediately rolled downhill again. His name became as...
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The Pirates of the Caricom
James Moss-Solomon 
April 3, 2010
I wrote this column while on the way home from a few days in Trinidad where I attended a strategic planning meeting of Caricom. My last trip to the tw...
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Iraqi PM takes risks by challenging vote
BY HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press writer 
April 3, 2010
THE challenge by Iraq's Shiite prime minister to election results that showed him coming in a close second to his chief rival -- Sunni-backed Ayad All...
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I like like you
Tamara Scott Williams 
April 3, 2010
WE see it on the playground all the time. Little boys being rude to little girls: pulling their hair, calling them names, and the like. This is when t...
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Who will save Caribbean Rum?
Sir Ronald Sanders 
April 3, 2010
The Caribbean rum industry is being abandoned left, right and centre with no Caribbean government yet rising to the challenge thrown down by the Europ...
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Bad times for a good relationship
MARK WIGNALL 
April 3, 2010
WHEN Marsha, who sometimes works as a barmaid, is fired up with anger and hurls an earthenware dinner plate at her fleeing common-law husband, Tom, a ...
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Obama’s next challenge
BY STEVEN R HURST Associated Press writer 
April 3, 2010
Fresh from a bruising victory on health care and a nuclear arms deal with Russia, President Barack Obama turned to a third campaign promise - victory ...
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Of Vivian Blake and The Shower Posse
DIANE ABBOTT 
April 3, 2010
Last month Vivian Blake, one-time leader of the "Shower Posse" gang, died in the University Hospital of the West Indies. It is worth noting that very ...
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Tolerance and Pain at a Time of Scandals
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Tolerance and Pain at a Time of Scandals
RICKEY SINGH 
April 3, 2010
ANALYSIS THIS weekend, when the Caribbean joins the rest of the world in observing the most sacred of festivals on the Christian calendar - the crucif...
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The Obama presidency and responsible political leadership
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The Obama presidency and responsible political leadership
CLAUDE ROBINSON 
April 3, 2010
FOLLOWING on his major legislative triumph in health-care reform, US President Barack Obama again appeared to turn reality upside down last week, over...
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The power of redemptive suffering
Raulston Nembhard 
April 2, 2010
Theological reflection on the passion and ultimate death of Jesus Christ brings into sharp focus the suffering being endured by many across the planet...
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‘Let us dream of a new Haiti’
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‘Let us dream of a new Haiti’
KEEBLE McFARLANE 
April 2, 2010
The goodwill is there all right. Some of the soldiers, emergency and rescue personnel who poured in to Haiti after the ground shook violently on Janua...
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Celebrating Easter by force
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Celebrating Easter by force
Mervin STODDART 
April 2, 2010
Jamaican churches started celebrating Easter almost as soon as Columbus and his crew invaded the country on May 3, 1494. It is unknown if any Easter-r...
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Holy Thursday and All Fools’ Day
Michael Burke 
March 31, 2010
Today is Holy Thursday and this year it falls on April 1 which is All Fools' Day. In the Western world, Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the fi...
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Easter and my beef with vegetarians
Franklin Johnston 
March 31, 2010
Vegetarians are a selfish and self-righteous people. God save us from them! Or have I met the wrong lot? But, hold that for now and let's enjoy Easter...
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Doing it to death
MARK WIGNALL 
March 31, 2010
There is a scene in the 2007 action movie, Shoot 'em up, where the star, Clive Owen (Mr Smith), is in a hotel room making steamy love to his leading l...
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Answering the repentance call
Barbara Gloudon 
March 31, 2010
THE PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association Mr Omar Azan, at the usual church service launching of Manufacturers' Week last Sunday, called...
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A tale of two earthquakes in Haiti and Chile
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A tale of two earthquakes in Haiti and Chile
FRANKLIN W KNIGHT 
March 30, 2010
Within the past three months the devastating earthquakes that destroyed large areas of south-western Haiti and central Chile powerfully reminded all o...
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Do you know Him?
Celta Kirkland 
March 30, 2010
Reflections In Prayer MATTHEW 16:13-17: "When Jesus came to the coast of Caesarea, Phillippi, He said to His disciples, who do people say that I the S...
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A test of the world’s resolve
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A test of the world’s resolve
Isiah Parnell 
March 30, 2010
Thirty-five seconds - that's how long the nation of Haiti shook on the afternoon of January 12. A lifetime or two - that's how long it will take to gi...
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A beautiful story
Betty Ann Blaine 
March 29, 2010
Heart to Heart Dear Reader, In a country where good news has become a scarce and delicate commodity, the picture of the Wolmer's High School captain, ...
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The death of civility
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The death of civility
Raulston Nembhard 
March 29, 2010
The Senate has taken the decision to suspend Senator KD Knight from two sittings of that once august body. This is for remarks that he made to Senator...
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