In the print edition of the Gleaner, published: Sunday | October 11, 2009
Lead Stories

Tourism's Suite LIFE - Big spend in hard times - Millions spent to make over tourism minister's office
While the Government struggles to fund the island's Budget and crucial sectors face financial shortfalls, and families are forced to cut back on expenditure, at least one ministry has spent more than $8 million to...

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News

Making the case for health tourism
RESIDENTS OF Mafoota, a sleepy district in the hills of St James just about 13 miles south of Montego Bay, are pushing the cause for the development of serenity and health tourism in...

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Business

NTCS pays its debt - Fighting for new transport deal
Jamaica's plan for a more cohesive, and orderly, transport service within the Kingston metro region gets into gear November 2, when its partnership with the National Transport Cooperative Society (NTCS) ends and all routes are put back...

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Sport

Georges seek more glory
Leaders St Georges Sports Club will take their surprise act on the road to Collie Smith Drive, looking to topple a Boys' Town team hell-bent on repairing its early season stuttering in the Digicel Premier League.

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Commentary

EDITORIAL: Mr Obama's Nobel Prize
There is much global debate, as the Nobel Peace Committee would have expected, over its award of this year's Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama, a mere nine months into office and with the nominations having closed...

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Letters

LETTER OF THE DAY: Fray's sentence too harsh
The Editor, Sir:Stephen Fray, a man who is clearly mentally ill, was sentenced to 20 years in jail for an ill-conceived attempt to hijack an airliner at Sangster International in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

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Entertainment

'In The Dance' on global pursuit: Producers aiming to break the mould of local productions
Chris Smith is an ambitious man. But you don't become the head of one of the top artiste management companies on modesty and gutless dreams.

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Arts &Leisure

Coming soon... Wycliffe Bennett's final creation
Although Wycliffe Bennett produced countless theatre and national events in a six-decade career, no project was more important to him than a book he co-wrote on the history of...

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Outlook

Pineapple Ball 2009
Doctors Don and Tracy Gilbert enjoying their night out.Pineapple Ball 09Janet...

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In Focus

Bruce's magicians ... and the role of government
Prime Minister Bruce Golding got some basics spot on in his pre-dawn address to Parliament and the nation on Wednesday, September 30.


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International

Haitian plane wreckage found in 'dead country'
FONDS-PARISIEN, Haiti (AP):United Nations (UN) helicopters on Saturday reached the remote site of a plane crash that killed 11 peacekeepers when a surveillance flight slammed into a mountain in eastern Haiti.All on-board died after the CASA C-212...

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Auto

Wedding wagons
'Here comes The Bride' echoes in the ears of many women.

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