In the print edition of the Gleaner, published: Wednesday | February 25, 2009
Lead Stories

Day of reckoning - Vaz-Dabdoub case to be concluded Friday - By-election still a possibility
The long-awaited decision in the dual-citizenship case which People's National Party candidate Abe Dabdoub has brought against Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz will be handed down on Friday. "I have instructed the registrar of the Court of Appeal that we will be in a position...

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News

Don't back down from general election, Buchanan warns PM
WITH the revelation that the Court of Appeal will deliver its judgment on the fate of Daryl Vaz this week, the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) has dared Prime Minister Bruce Golding to not eat his words about a general election. Golding had said...

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Business

Lee Chin in buyout talks for CL assets - CLICO's 40% of JMMB in billionaire's line of sight
Michael Lee Chin's AIC is leveraging about US$150 million of unused cash it says it has in its Caribbean private-equity fund in a bid to acquire portions of troubled financial group CL Financial's prime assets. Lee Chin says the Trinidad deal, if clinched, could land him one...

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Sport

Oberlin romp to victory
Oberlin High emerged champions of Eastern Athletics Championships after amassing 526.5 points at the meet, which ended at the National Stadium yesterday.At the end of the two-day Championships, Oberlin finished way ahead of Glengoffe, who made a late afternoon surge...

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Commentary

EDITORIAL - Review free health care, education
What is worse than creating bad policy is its bad implementation. But worse still is to maintain that policy once it has been recognised to be bad. This is why we welcome the fact that despite his muscled huffing, Health Minister Rudyard Spencer has commissioned a review...

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Letters

LETTER OF THE DAY - BOJ governor stabilising the economy
The Editor, Sir: The Governor of the Bank of Jamaica and at least one of his deputies attended university at the same time I did. We had the same economics professors. I will confess to numerous non-academic distractions ...

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Entertainment

Sweet Jazz in the Gardens
There was a pleasing mix of amateurs and professionals at the first Jazz in the Gardens concert for the year held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel on Sunday. The fair-size audience was enthusiastic throughout the show and after Karen Smith ...

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Profiles in Medicine

Bad times don't last forever
Companies are in trouble. Jobs are being made redundant. The dollar is sliding. Enough of all of this bad news. Hard times are upon us; we are in this together so let us work towards finding solutions. Bad times don't last forever.

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