In the print edition of the Gleaner, published: Sunday | September 20, 2009
Lead Stories

Party Time! PJ leads new charge - PNP at 71 'Rebuild and repackage'
As the People's National Party (PNP) contemplates its next steps, its only surviving former president, P.J. Patterson, has stressed the need to rebuild and repackage the 71-year-old party.

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News

PNP at 71: 'Get back to basics'
FIFTY YEARS ago, the People's National Party (PNP) celebrated its 21st birthday and declared that it had come of age.Today, the party wraps up its 71st annual conference with a public session at the...

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Business

Prepare agriculture for foreign capital - Samuda: FDI dipped by nine per cent in 2008
Lamenting Jamaica's failure to attract significant foreign capital to its farm sector, Minister of Industry Investment and Commerce, Karl Samuda, has urged a sprucing up of agriculture to make it more attractive to...

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Sport

DPL Garden party: Arnett host Tivoli at Spaulding Complex
TIVOLI GARDENS have made the perfect start to their Digicel Premier League title defence, winning all three matches to be top of the roost with maximum nine points.

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Commentary

EDITORIAL: When fear gains ascendancy
Douglas Leys, Jamaica's solicitor general, is regarded as a thoughtful, thorough but intellectually nimble lawyer, who is nearly as adept at the workings of international treaties to which Jamaican is signatory, as...

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Letters

LETTER OF THE DAY: Bring order to transportation system
The Editor, Sir:I have become increasingly concerned about the way our transportation system continues to operate without any true form of oversight.

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Entertainment

One for the ages Playwright Trevor Rhone leaves lasting legacy
The late multi-talented theatre practitioner Trevor Rhone was planning several big projects before he died of a massive heart attack last Tuesday.

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Arts &Leisure

Curtains close Stage - A playwright's journey to greatness
In October 1973 during Smile Orange's run at The Creative Arts Centre in St Andrew, among the hundreds who saw the play was Basil Dawkins, a first-year student at...

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Outlook

Pioneers party in MoBay
WESTERN BUREAU: When Guyanese-born businessman Howard Bulkan was shortlisted for the Caribbean Pioneers of Prosperity Awards, ...

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In Focus

The Gully-Gaza war
It had to come to this. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. When some academics were talking mumbo-jumbo and making all kinds of absurd excuses and rationalisation for the decadence in the dancehall, ...

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International

Obama's big week: Rolling into period of high diplomatic stakes
WASHINGTON (AP):The unrelenting global troubles confronting Barack Obama are about to converge on him all at once, providing a stern test of leadership for a first-year president who has pledged to "change...

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Auto

House Hauling
WESTERN BUREAU: RELOCATING TO a new home comes with its challenges.

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