Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Thursday | February 19, 2009
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Uneasy pon di gully side
Clabow! My heart jumped and my knees started to wobble. I was standing on a pothole-riddled sidewalk in the community known as Cassava Piece in St Andrew and started looking around for the source of the sound, all the time ready to hit the pavement, should it become...

Montego Bay cop eyes Maroon leadership - But Peddie says the more the merrier
WESTERN BUREAU: Several aspirants are gearing up to unseat incumbent leader of the Accompong Maroons, Sydney Peddie, whose second term officially ends on February 27."I have heard that some six persons are lining up to challenge me, but I am ready for the challenge,"...

Daggerin' nightmare - A bus ride to hell
While outrage at daggerin' songs in electronic media has largely been centred at safeguarding the interests of children, sometimes it's adults who are hollering for rescue from kids. Just days after the police Traffic Division warned of a major assault on the playing of music...

Stanford's whereabouts unknown
St John's, Antigua (AP): United States marshals in the Virgin Islands were yesterday unable to account for the whereabouts of embattled Texan financier Allen Stanford, who has been accused of perpetrating a US$8 billion fraud against his companies' investors...

Thursdaytalk - Hottest topics on the cocktail circuit
Up in arms!1. Some members of the profession are still up in arms about the way their organisation was painted recently and are calling for a laying down of arms...


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