In the print edition of the Gleaner, published: Tuesday | August 4, 2009
Lead Stories

Ganja-plane crash - Two dead, four men in police custody
A United States-registered twin-engine aircraft believed to be on a drug mission to Jamaica crashed yesterday morning on a private road owned by Windalco Bauxite Company in Schwallenburgh district, near the St Ann-St Catherine border, killing its two occupants...

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News

Nurses strike back - NAJ demands public apology from chief medical officer, calls for minister's intervention into malaria money matter
After an emergency meeting yesterday, the Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) called on Minister of Health Rudyard Spencer to promptly diffuse a brewing controversy between public-health nurses and top-ranking officials in the ministry...

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Business

Building an education fund even in hard times
Moya Leiba-Barnes, general manager at Capital & Credit Merchant Bank, outlines some basic steps parents can take to begin the process of building a fund to cover the cost of their children's education, even in challenging economic times...

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Sport

Jamaica look to extend winning streak
Leaders and title-favourites Jamaica are again expected to stick with the same starting 11, which recorded convincing six and five wicket victories over the Leeward and Windward Islands, respectively, in their last two TCL Group WICB U-19 one-day matches...

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Commentary

EDITORIAL - Mrs Hay-Webster's futile evasiveness
Sharon Hay-Webster, the People's National Party (PNP) Member of Parliament MP for South Central St Catherine has come to recognise the improbability of eating her cake and still having it. She is taking steps, she says, to renounce her United States citizenship...

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Letters

LETTER OF THE DAY - Dual-citizenship farce continues
The Editor, Sir: A third by-election may now be called after Supreme Court judge Justice Lloyd Hibbert hands down his ruling on the dual-citizenship controversy involving the NW Clarendon parliamentary seat. Is there a better way to mash up the country ...

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Entertainment

'Take Me to Jesus' wins Gospel Song Competition
On Sunday night at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre, Gamel Grant won the Jamaica Gospel Song 2K9 competition with Take Me to Jesus, but it was second-placed Kimiela Issacs who seemed to have won the hearts of the crowd...

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Lifestyle

Saving souls at Castleton
Shhhh. The sound of the river got louder as I walked downhill. It was mid-morning at Castleton Gardens in St Mary and I had spotted a crowd by the river. I was walking closer to see what was happening, when I heard someone yell...

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