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Lifestyle

STREET BOYS, street wise - My life as a street boy

"YUH A nuh big, strong bwoy? Gwaan go look work," answered well known DJ Buju Banton when I begged him money recently. The entertainer and his crew looked me up and down. I was dressed in a faded pair of crumpled and dirty-looking jeans, black...

Employed to the streets

DWAYNE JOHNSON, 14, and Shawn Lewis, 13, are self-employed - to the streets. When school is dismissed at 2:35 p.m. each day, they get busy making money. The boys spend at least three hours on the streets around Half-Way Tree, St. Andrew, wiping...

From Dawn to dusk
LAST WEEK Tuesday The Gleaner's initiation of a fund to help with the education of a baby girl, Asheena Dawn Myrie - her middle name symbolic of the New Dawn Initiative for a better Jamaica - took the nation by surprise...



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