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Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
published: Sunday | August 31, 2008

Painful recovery - Gustav victims struggle to put lives back together
It has been a slow and painful recovery from the effects of Tropical Storm Gustav for persons in the parish of Portland, which first felt the brunt of the weather system which hit the island on Thursday.

He is a happy person, says Usain's mother

Barbara EllingtonLifestyle EditorTRIPLE OLYMPIC gold-medal winner Usain Bolt loves children with a passion and will pick them up and play with them on the spur of the moment, according to his mother, Jennifer Bolt.

Gustav hammers Industry Village

AFTER RIDING out four hurricanes in Industry Village, businessman Leonard Davis thought he had seen everything. That is, until the rural St Andrew district felt the force of Tropical Storm Gustav last Thursday.

Spanish Town bus park run by thugs - Gangsters use subtle means to ensure compliance to extortion

WHILE LOCAL law enforcers continue to grapple with ways to counter extortion, racketeers have maintained a stranglehold on local businesses through the use of subtle, yet frightening means, to ensure compliance. The practice has since been institutionalised in many major townships across the island.

New Haven, old problems

ONLY A stranger who has no alternative would think about putting his feet in the murky waters. The Sunday Gleaner team would wish the water away if it could. It appears to be rising by the minute and there is absolutely no sign that the levels would recede any time.

Gustav unleashes wrath on St Mary

EVAN McPHERSON, 54, weathered hurri-canes Ivan and Dean without much damage, but Tropical Storm Gustav was not so merciful. She has lived in Broadgate, St Mary, for the last 10 years with her husband Douglas, in a six-apartment house. But after the passage of Tropical Storm Gustav she lost her home to the Wag Water River.

It's a waste of time! Environmentalists knock Government's waste-to-energy project

GOVERNMENT'S MULTI-BILLION-dollar waste-to-energy project is creating a stir in some environmental circles. Some are calling the plan impractical, suggesting, among other things, that the Government will not be able to supply the waste needed to efficiently feed the plant.

Police step up probe to find two cop killers

SENIOR CRIME sleuths in Area Two are strategising their next move to bring two cop killers to justice, as investigations into the shooting death of Inspector Audley Smith in Oracabessa, St Mary, Thursday night, intensify.





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