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Jodi-Ann Gilpin, Gleaner Writer Rev Reece urges parents to play a more significant role Hoisting yesterday's edition of The Gleaner in the air and pointing to the headline, 'Failed parenting', the Reverend Donald Reece, president of the Jamaica Council of Churches, yesterday urged parents to listen...(size: 2.2Kb)
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VIOLENCE BECAME endemic and crime skyrocketed in Jamaica in the years following Independence; and has remained extraordinarily high since then. Crime analyst Dudley Allen noted in the 1980s that the country's violent crime rates doubled (and then some) during the first 12 years following...(size: 2.7Kb)
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Claire Clarke, Contributor Volume 1. No.46 It is that time of the year again when the high-schoolers start their bid to determine the champion chess team in all the island. It has not yet been shared which are the teams in the different sections. But the tournament is set to run from November 8, to...(size: 3.5Kb)
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It would be a greater tragedy than already has unfolded since October 24 if the Hurricane Sandy recovery activities were shrouded in the ugliness of Jamaican politics. Which could be the case as the island tries to salvage its social and economic future from the ravages of a late-season storm....(size: 3.8Kb)
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THE EDITOR, Sir: I am very disturbed and unsettled about the prime minister's utterance in Parliament on Tuesday, October 30, 2012. She noted, "I do not believe we should allow people to build by gully banks; upon some hills where we can have slippage; and riverbed; and then begin to call whichever...(size: 3.0Kb)
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THE EDITOR, Sir: On Tuesday, October 9, I paid a bill using LIME's automated service. The bill total was $2,475.01. This bill became overdue on September 29; yet, more than a week later, it was disconnected. I used a Scotia credit card and subsequently paid that credit card bill on Saturday, October...(size: 2.6Kb)
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THE EDITOR, Sir: Kerry Packer, who died in December 2005, changed the game of cricket forever. He transformed the game from being an event for spectators to a media event. All this started over a conflict for television rights. Packer's aim was to secure broadcasting rights for...(size: 1.9Kb)
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THE EDITOR, Sir: I have just nursed my daughter through the debilitating effects of dengue fever - prolonged fever, lethargy, loss of appetite, diarrahoea, vomiting, itchy rash and low platelet counts which eventually caused her to be hospitalised at the University Hospital of the West Indies...(size: 2.1Kb)