In the print edition of the Gleaner, published: Friday | February 12, 2010
Lead Stories

Police bus scam - Cop and two others held in Hanover motor-vehicle racket
WESTERN BUREAU: The Ramble Police Station in Hanover has been placed under the microscope of the Anti-Corruption Branch, which is probing reports that the station was the nerve centre of a major motor-vehicle racket in the parish...

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News

Race to Literacy - Donate a book to a child
A major book drive to raise the literacy rate in the island was kicked off by Rotary clubs in Jamaica on Wednesday. The voluntary organisation launched 'Race to Literacy Book Drive Project' in an aim to gather as many books as possible and, in the process....

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Business

Lawyers lose - Margie Geddes freed of $246m fee
A LAW firm that took on business without a 'written' agreement is now $246 million out of pocket, on a ruling of the Court of Appeal that Margie Geddes, the widow of beer icon Paul Geddes, was not liable for contingency fees claimed by former attorneys...

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Sport

Burrell hails Reggae Boyz
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina:The Reggae Boyz were wholeheartedly congratulated by Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president, Captain Horace Burrell following a stout-hearted performance in which they were beaten 2-1...

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Commentary

EDITORIAL- Mr Golding's intervention, Mr Witter's obligation
We are heartened by Prime Minister Bruce Golding's swift and unequivocal response to the report that investigators from the Office of the Public Defender were on Wednesday barred from entering the Horizon Remand Centre to gather information on the...

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Letters

LETTER OF THE DAY - Why not merge the two forces?
THE EDITOR, Sir: Kindly allow me to express my views on the horrific homicide rate in Jamaica and what I think needs to be done about it. I have watched with great concern the escalating homicide rate in Jamaica which continues to spiral ...

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Entertainment

Much love 'Inna Mi Heart'
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways/I love thee to the depth and breadth and height/My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight/For the ends of Being and ideal Grace," are the first four lines from British poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous poem.

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Social

Up Close with the Blackberry 9700!
Brian Sklar, representing Research In Motion (RIM), the manufacturers and distributors of the BlackBerry Bold 9700, says the new phone will give owners the opportunity to do more with less. He was speaking at the Kingston leg...

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International

Gov't tackles wages, job safety
WASHINGTON (AP):The Obama administration moved yesterday to increase wages and job-safety protections for temporary farm workers, reversing a Bush era policy that unions said fostered cheap labour and undercut domestic...

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