In the print edition of the Gleaner, published: Wednesday | June 17, 2009
Lead Stories

BLOWOUT - Mair takes back NE St Catherine, PNP finds no love for Valentine
The Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Gregory Mair triumphed by more than 2,600 votes in a subdued by-election in North East St Catherine yesterday, mirroring the widened margin of victory for the governing party at a similar poll in March...

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News

'Plenty little things' are good today
Hi, neighbour! It's becoming increasingly annoying to see how easily people can become annoyed with one another. People seem to be so uptight these days that almost anything can trigger a negative response. Strangely enough, a simple 'good morning' or 'good afternoon'...

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Business

Lascelles untouched - Duprey remains chairman
There is no danger of Lascelles deMercado being sold off to pay the debts of CL Financial group, the Trinidad parent who is also holding that the government, which has taken command of Lawrence Duprey's outfit, has not by virtue of that takeover ...

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Sport

BRIEFS - Real bank loans
ig-spending Real Madrid is reportedly set to receive two multimillion euro bank loans to help fund signing Kaka and the expected hiring of Cristiano Ronaldo plus any other player purchases.

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Commentary

EDITORIAL - JTA contestants must offer substance
The suggestion of the cynic would probably be that they abandon their campaigns.We, however, prefer to give Mrs Maudlyn Wright-Shaw and Ms Nadine Molloy the benefit of the doubt that there is greater substance to the platforms from which they launch ...

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Letters

LETTER OF THE DAY - Do away with the speed-trap nonsense
THE EDITOR, Sir: WHEN ARE we going to stop this absolute nonsense of 'speed traps' in so-called '50km zones' without any or any adequate signs or warnings of the change from 80km to 50km? The North Coast Highway is replete with them. For example, in Runaway Bay, Salem, Drax Hall...

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Entertainment

Tanya Shirley presents 'She Who Sleeps With Bones'
After Tanya Shirley had read two poems from her debut collection on Peepal Tree Press She Who Sleeps With Bones on Sunday morning, she smiled as she noted a certain lack of poetic staying power which she has observed. Shirley told the nearly full house at the Philip...

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Profiles in Medicine

A little tardy though, says Dr Winston Davidson
Public health specialist, Dr Winston Davidson, believes that the World Health Organisation's declaration of the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic is 'a little tardy'.He argues that all the trends would have supported an earlier shift of the worldwide pandemic...

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International

Obama to enforce fresh int'l penalties
Declaring North Korea a "grave threat" to the world, President Barack Obama yesterday pledged the United States and its allies will aggressively enforce fresh international penalties against the nuclear-armed nation and stop rewarding...

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