Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Monday | March 30, 2009
Lead Stories

Dear peace - Group vows to maintain calm despite the price
Children curfews, parenting workshops and football competitions are just some of the strategies members of the Kingston and St Andrew Action Forum (KSAAF) have been using to return their communities to a family-friendly state. The men and women who make up the forum live ...

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News

Pigs and the City - Riverton brothers succeed amid the stench
In their mid-40s, Noel and Lloyd McKay are as lean as anyone can be; yet, they spend their days surrounded by, big, fat pigs. But they don't mind. For that's what they do to earn an honest living. "Me is a independent man. I don't business what a person might take me as...

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Business

North Trelawny making good use of the CDF
WESTERN BUREAU: While critics continue to affix the 'pork barrel' label to the Government's $1.2 billion Constituency Development Fund (CDF), for Patrick Harris, the member of parliament for North Trelawny, it is a blessing for his constituents...

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Sport

Rain, Strauss pelt Windies
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Dwayne Bravo's face-saving 69 off 72 balls was upstaged when Andrew Strauss made a polished 79 not out from 61 balls to carry England to a nine-wicket victory in the rain-affected fourth one-day international yesterday to draw...

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Commentary

EDITORIAL - Broad, deep debate needed on constitutional reform
IF YOU start to compromise on your Constitution, as appears to be the proposition of some who ought to know better, then no law is sacrosanct, and the rights and freedoms and even legal sanctions, on which you count on in a democracy, are no longer sure...

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Letters

LETTER OF THE DAY - Questions about diaspora representation
THE EDITOR, Sir:I READ with interest an article quoting Prime Minister Golding as having initiated dialogue with the opposition leader regarding the appointment of a senator to represent the diaspora. As the representative for the United States North East...

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Entertainment

Japanese 'Dub' Jamaica
In recent times, some Japanese have become part of Jamaica's reggae/dancehall culture and have also fused the eccentric lifestyle with their own.Very often Japanese sound system operators come to the island to make dub plates and record Jamaican artistes...

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Flair

Positively phenomenal - Grace Jackson
This week we continue to look at some of the phenomenal women who have left an indelible mark in their chosen fields. Let's celebrate our phenomenal Jamaican women. Although no longer on the track, Grace Jackson has not lost speed...

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