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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Thursday | September 23, 2004

The role of consumers
THE AFTERMATH of Hurricane Ivan is passing through the usual phases of such natural disasters: picking up the pieces, counting the cost, consoling the victims and launching the reconstruction.

Hats off to CWJ and the security forces
THE EDITOR, Sir: I AM a Jamaican working in Michigan. I will like to give hats off to the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) on the remarkable work that they did during Hurricane Ivan, I feel real proud.


The memory of Eventide
I HAD planned to write an extremely simple column about the Eventide Home Fire of Tuesday, May 20, 1980. I had planned something as stark as a lightning-struck tree poking the belly of a sky that rained fire along with water...


Hol' Ya 'Prentice and other Ivan people
SOMEONE HAS to hold and pass the nails and the tools, the lumber and the rescued zinc sheets, and serve the scarce water in the roasting sun.












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