In the print edition of the Gleaner, published: Wednesday | January 7, 2009
Lead Stories

Chin turns on Kern - Businessman to testify against politician in Cuban light-bulb trial
The Director of public prosecutions (DPP) is set to withdraw all charges against businessman Rodney Chin when he returns to court on Monday for the scheduled start of the Cuban light-bulb trial. Chin will instead testify for the State against his co-accused Kern Spencer...

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News

Principal's firing sparks protest
Education Minister Andrew Holness has recommended that the dispute over the firing of the Vauxhall High School principal Angela Chaplain be referred to the Appeals Tribunal. The dismissal sparked a demonstration by students and teachers outside the school gate yesterday....

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Business

JPS $16b metering plan worries OUR
Jamaica Public Service Company says it will invest as much as US$350 per customer to transform its meter-reading system to one that is totally electronic, but the Office of Utilities Regulation says Tuesday that it finds aspect of the plan worrying...

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Sport

Jamaica off to defend four-day title
Jamaica, bereft of batting all-rounder Lorenzo Ingram, left the island yesterday en route to St Kitts where they will open the defence of the West Indies Four-Day Championship title against the Leewards, beginning Friday...

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Commentary

EDITORIAL - Israel should be reminded
The name Jurgen Stroop, in historical context, is not of immediate recall, but the Warsaw Ghetto is. And it rightly stirs emotions - particularly among Jewish people. On May 16, 1943, Nazi troops, under the field command of Jurgen Stroop, burnt the Great Synagogue of Warsaw...

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Letters

LETTER OF THE DAY - Making victims of wrongdoers
The Editor, Sir: The Sunday Gleaner had as its headline 'Bloody start to 2009'. Anyone who expected any other result would be in denial of the Jamaican reality. It is less than reasonable to continue business as usual and expect a different result...

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Entertainment

A musical evening with Laurice and Friends
Music by many different instruments and of several genres was offered to, and appreciatively accepted by lovers of the art form, at the Church of the Ascension, Mona, on Sunday evening. Entertaining the audience, which included patrons, Dr Alfred Reid and Mrs Reid...

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Profiles in Medicine

YEAR IN REVIEW - The best of health 2008
The gene pool - Physical characteristics peculiar to black people as a result of their evolution and interface in a tropical environment, the sickle-cell trait and malaria were some of the factors Morrison and Cooper found, almost acting in consort...

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