Jamaica Gleaner News- Lead Stories - Thursday

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Salt Spring under fire - Woman murdered, six houses torched

Western Bureau: One woman was shot dead, six houses torched and an entire community left traumatised as heavily armed thugs wreaked havoc in volatile Salt Spring, St James, between late Tuesday night and early yesterday morning...

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AA hero to meet with PM

Annette Howard, the bus driver who is being celebrated as a hero for helping to rescue passengers from the American Airlines' mishap last week, is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Bruce Golding this morning. Communications manager at the Jamaica Urban...

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Community hails its 'angel' Annette Howard

Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus driver Annette Howard is an "angel" sent to rescue the passengers of American Airlines Flight 331, one of her neighbours has declared. "God saw what was going to happen ...

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Family mourns 13-year-old St James accident victim - 'Jaman was a New Year's baby'

WESTERN BUREAU: "We were going to buy a cake for his birthday, that would've been January 1, but he didn't live to see his birthday or the new year," cried the stepfather of Jaman Morris. The 13-year-old boy, who was mowed down by a bus in his home community of Amity Hall ...

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Consumers now buying locally produced sugar

For the first time in the past 10 years, Jamaicans are now buying locally produced sugar, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. In a release yesterday, the agriculture ministry said the island's sugar needs were previously met largely...