In the print edition of the Gleaner, published: Friday | April 3, 2009
Lead Stories

Charity flows - NWC workers show goodwill to the needy
About five years ago, a group of women employed to the accounts department of the National Water Commission (NWC) on Marescaux Road in Kingston decided to form a birthday club through which they would exchange gifts and organise parties for each other...

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News

Man overboard! - Chen urges recruitment of more female directors
Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF) President Wayne Chen says organisations need to be more aggressive in achieving gender parity by installing more women on boards of directors.Referring to data published last week by Women's Resource and Outreach Centre...

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Business

Air policy rift
Suggestive of a split in domestic air policy and a clash of portfolios, Transport Minister Michael Henry scolded Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) boss, Earl Richards, saying comments he made to this newspaper were counter to the direction his ministry had chosen...

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Sport

Holmwood, KC look set
Holmwood Technical look home and dry in the race for the girls' title, but the battle for the boys' crown will be hot between defending champions Calabar High and Kingston College over the last two days of the 2009 GraceKennedy/ISSA Boys and Girls' Athletic Championships...

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Commentary

EDITORIAL - Golding on to something, but ...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding is clearly on to something, even if the idea needs further debate and refinement, with his intervention in Parliament this week on a planned overhaul of the criteria for lending by the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB)...

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Letters

LETTER OF THE DAY - Undermining parliamentary legitimacy
The Editor, Sir: I am hoping that North East St Ann Member of Parliament, Shahine Robinson, was terribly misquoted in the report carried in this newspaper on April 1 when she described the by-election in West Portland as being a "distraction ...

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Entertainment

'YES', 'Pupalick', 'Tempest' dominate Actor Boy Awards
When Tony Patel gave the judges' report on behalf of chief judge Hugh Martin at the 2008 Actor Boy Awards on Tuesday night, six awards had already been handed out at the two-thirds full Courtleigh Auditorium in New Kingston. At that point, the card with Father Ho Lung...

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Social

Fabulous at 60!
Like the foliage that envelops the veranda at Norma's on the Terrace, Beverly Dinham-Spencer is evergreen and family and friends joined her to endorse that fact with a celebratory dinner at the upscale St Andrew restaurant last Saturday night...

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