In the print edition of the Gleaner, published: Friday | July 10, 2009
Lead Stories

Raining coke - Cops say drug is now smuggled in small portions
AFTER A two-year lull in seizures, the narcotics police said that millions of dollars' worth of cocaine is again flowing through the island's ports. Senior Superintendent Carlton Wilson, head of the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division, said that for the first six months ...

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News

The great passion of Williams' golden years
Sitting in his office at Bamboo Lodge, Irish Town, R Danny Williams meticulously combs through a pile of papers - stopping finally at Jamaica College's (JC) staggeringly long list of annual expenses. Nothing else today so...

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Business

Lee Chin back under pressure - $3b default talks head to July 21 vote
A meeting has been called for July 21 for just over 100 investors holding more than US$36 million (J$3.2 billion) of unpaid matured promissory notes that have become crucial to whether Michael Lee Chin is stripped of assets used to back the bond issue....

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Sport

Win or go home!
MIAMI, Florida: MUST WIN. It's a simple as that. In just a matter of months, Jamaica's Reggae Boyz are being confronted with elimination despite showing superior form in a major football championship, knowing they shall have to take all three points...

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Commentary

EDITORIAL - Ramnarine should move on
There is an inescapably obvious constant in the perennial quarrels and contract disputes between the players of the West Indies cricket team and the body that administers the game in the Caribbean, the West Indies Cricket Board ...

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Letters

LETTER OF THE DAY - Save, don't banish, students
The Editor, Sir: I am a 17-year-old student who currently attends a high school in Manchester. Over the six years that I've been in high school I have learnt a lot and I have matured immensely, despite the many challenges I have faced...

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Entertainment

Kwame Dawes stages LIVE! HOPE! LOVE!
Dr Kwame Dawes will stage LIVE! HOPE! LOVE! at the Phillip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of the West Indies on Sunday at 11 a.m.Born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica, Dawes is the author of 13 books ...

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Social

GG's son plays for seniors
Thursday July 2 was special for the residents of the Women's Club home on Gladstone Drive, St Andrew. Lady Allen, wife of Governor General Sir Patrick Allen, was a guest at the club's recent meeting. She promised the home's president Peggy Blades...

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International

IRAQ - More than 40 killed in bombings
BAGHDAD (AP): Bombings killed more than 40 people in Iraq yesterday in the worst violence since United States combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five Iranian officials suspected of aiding Shi'ite...

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