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Jamaica Gleaner News
published: Sunday | March 14, 2004

Dangerous voyage - Haitians brave choppy seas for better life
MANY HAITIAN asylum seekers fleeing their battle- ravaged homeland often do so in poorly constructed vessels, leaving themselves susceptible to disasters at sea.

Awkward silence from Aristide supporters
AFRICAN NATIONS were quick to declare support for ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide when he was forced from office by a bloody rebellion and international pressure. But when it came to offering him asylum, there was an awkward silence.


Compound: A community struggling to survive
CONTROVERSY IS nothing new to the residents of "Compound", a small community in the volatile Olympic Gardens area of West Central St. Andrew which has been torn apart by political tribalism for decades.


CARDI's new head takes matters in hand
DR. WENDEL Parham, the new executive director of the 30-year- old Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), says he is on a mission to re-position the organisation as a premier agricultural research...












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