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

Passion for education - Veteran teacher says every child can learn - Believes GSAT not meeting students' needs
She knows no other job but teaching. Lizette Morrison, principal of Tulloch Primary School, has been nurturing young minds for 40 years and would have it no other way. Morrison, who wanted to dedicate her life to caring for the sick, attempted to get into nursing school...

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News

Jehovah Jireh - Montego Bay church lavishes 'poor, needy' with love
WESTERN BUREAU: In an effort to help a multitude of persons through charity, one church in Montego Bay, St James, took a bold step last Saturday to provide clothes, food and medical care for more than 1,000 persons in the Second City. The initiative by the Meeting Place ...

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Business

FSC ready to welcome investment clubs - But limits membership to 20
Jamaica's Financial Services Commission (FSC) has laid out the broad criteria under which it would likely sanction investment clubs, including limiting membership to no more than 20, rather than the hundreds who paid money into the slew of unregulated schemes ...

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Sport

Jamaica hold on
The Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) tried and tried and tried, but in the end, there was no stopping leaders and champions Jamaica from securing a draw in their 11th-round WICB regional four-day cricket clash at Sabina Park yesterday....

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Commentary

EDITORIAL - Bungling incompetence by Montego Bay police
Were it not so potentially dangerous, the Montego Bay case of the fake cop would be grand comedy. And perhaps it can still be, once the responsible people have been held accountable, and appropriately sanctioned, and we are sufficiently removed from the affair...

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Letters

LETTER OF THE DAY - Wasting time in fight for power
The Editor, Sir: It seems so much was at stake in the West Portland by-election that the nation's top brass had to leave pressing matters in Kingston to spend days campaigning in the east. I understand the significance of the election to both major political parties...

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Entertainment

Short Film Festival to be all-inclusive
Put 'film' and 'festival' together and chances are, lights as paparazzi click away at the stars, high-end cameras and the action of announcers ripping envelopes dramatically to say "and the winner is ..." are among the images that come to mind. ...

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Profiles in Medicine

Tanny gets her prize
To say that Tuesday, March 10, was a busy day for Tanica Plummer, winner of The Gleaner's Health section weight-management challenge, is nothing short of an understatement. Tanny (her pet name) was shuffling between consultations...

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Careers

Taking local skills to the world - Skilled Jamaicans compete internationally
Eighteen-year-old Sashamoi Battick started her love affair with in cosmetology at Central High School in May Pen, where she says, 10th-grade teacher, Sharon Bissasor, motivated her class to believe that a career in this field was as meaningful as any other...

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