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THERE WAS a peppery smell in the air and it seemed the rain that only moments earlier had subsided, made the scent even stronger. People were walking about with energy as photographer Norman Grindley and I passed the market in Brown's Town, St Ann....

Dear Counsellor,

I find life to be stressful.

FOR MORE than 45 years, Frances Betilda Graham, affectionately called 'Aunt Evelyn', served in the postal service as a messenger. Now retired at 89 years old, Aunt Evelyn still remembers the days of having to deliver telegrams on foot to several communities in Port Antonio and beyond.

IT WAS never going to be short. There's nothing brief about a Revival funeral, but the celebration and thanksgiving for the life of the Reverend Inez Agatha Kirlew, née Vassell, at the Church of God of the Mount Assembly in Westmoreland, easily outdid itself on Sunday.

Do you want to earn more money? Are you among the multiple tens of thousands who are desperate to find a job - just something to help you stop depending upon other people?What about career advancement? ...

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Dear Counsellor,I have a weight problem and I have tried various diets with no good results.

The following is feedback to last week's Roving with Lalah in Ocho Rios, St Ann: Brilliant! I love this story.

UNDER A low and broad almond tree in Village Green, St Ann, Jody and his father, Wade, sat with friends, drinking and chatting. It was a time of laughter, hospital anecdotes, reflections, unadulterated happiness, and cheers to the survival of a young man whose bond with his father is perhaps beyond compare.

AT AGE 94, Elsie Mynes still plies her wares at the Porus Market, a job she has been carrying out for the last 84 years. She is following in the footsteps of her mother, Irene Thompson, affectionately called 'Nana Joe', who sold goods in the market up to 103 years old.

The man looked like a mouse. Now I say this with no desire to offend the good fellow from Ocho Rios in St Ann, but there simply is no better way to describe him. When he first walked up to me as I stood on a crowded sidewalk...

Q: My heart is broken because I have discovered that my boyfriend has been unfaithful to me - and with several girls, too! Doctor, I am 17, and six months ago, I fell in love with this wonderful boy.