In the print edition of the Gleaner, published: Thursday | November 19, 2009
Lead Stories

BOLT - Man of the year - Lightning strikes twice
Lightning seems to strike twice in many ways for Usain Bolt. Breaking the 100m world record at a major championship, the Olympics in Beijing, China, in 2008, and doing the same a year later in 2009 at the World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Check...

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News

Peace initiative brings unity to Barracks Road Primary
Violence and aggression continue to be the major causes of trauma in some schools, as a small, yet significant number of students become involved in gang rivalry, drug trafficking, drug use, drug abuse and fights, sometimes with deadly weapons...

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Sport

JC coach in trouble
Jamaica College's (JC) Manning Cup football coach Alfred Henry could face a lengthy suspension from the game when the Inter-secondary School Sports Association's (ISSA) disciplinary committee meets in a matter of days. Henry might find himself in trouble...

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Commentary

EDITORIAL - Where 'Dudus' Coke meets Transparency International
The Golding administration can claim, with fair justification, that it is lugging the baggage of its predecessor with regard to public perception about corruption in Jamaica. However, Prime Minister Golding and others in the Government would be mistaken...

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Letters

LETTER OF THE DAY - A cry for representation
The Editor, Sir: Somehow urban poverty with its overcrowded living conditions, inter-town rivalry and homelessness seemed like the worst kind of human depravity to me, until recently when I started making frequent trips to rural communities...

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Entertainment

Fascinating 'WAR Stories' at UWI
The name of the documentary eventually shown (after an extensive delay due to technical difficulties) in N1, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, last Friday is a happy coincidence of fact and sensation - a sensational fact...

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What's Cooking

Salt fish entrées for Restaurant Week
Starapples - During The Gleaner-sponsored Restaurant Week, some members of Lifestyle team dined on salt-fish dishes offered by the various participating restaurants. The chefs really put their new knowledge gleaned ...

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UWI/Eye on Science

Biotechnology-regulations: A pressing imperative for developing countries
The world is awash with bio-engineering products as it is with criticisms of their health and environmental propensities. This is so, despite the many benefits that these technologies and their products have brought to agriculture among other things, by way of the reduction....

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