In the print edition of the Gleaner, published: Friday | May 29, 2009
Lead Stories

Youth to the rescue - 100 students trained in emergency response
Prime Minister Bruce Golding's vision of creating an islandwide network of young people to assist in emergencies began taking shape with the graduation of the first batch of cadets involved in the Preparedness and Emergency Respond Corps (PERC)...

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News

BOJ governor's epistle stirs controversy
AN EIGHT-page letter from Bank of Jamaica Governor Derick Latibeaudiere created a stir on Tuesday at the beginning of the oversight committee's meeting in Gordon House.The letter to Dr Omar Davies in his capacity as chairman of Parliament's Public...

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Business

FSC sounds repo warning - Cites interest rate, liquidity risks - Mayberry getting out, others studying implication
At least one dealer in government paper and other securities, as well as the regulator for the financial services sector, are pointing to interest rates and liquidity risks in repurchase agreement or repo transactions, while brokerage Mayberry Investments says...

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Sport

'Ver', Powell ready for Reebok
TWO-TIME Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown and Asafa Powell, the former world 100 metres record holder, yesterday declared themselves fit and ready for tomorrow's Reebok Grand Prix in New York. Powell, who pulled up with an ankle injury...

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Commentary

EDITORIAL - Of history and George Headley
Edward Seaga, the former prime minister and social anthropologist, by his own admission, recently found history - in its fullest sense. And it was good. It has provided Mr Seaga with a context from which to critique, and proffer solutions, to current economic problems...

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Letters

LETTER OF THE DAY - The mayor's selective crackdown
The Editor, Sir: I find it amazing, even shocking, that the mayor of Kingston and his administrators at the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation continue to turn a blind eye to illegal street vending in many residential neighbourhoods of the Corporate Area...

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Social

Pure/Plush Lounge is here!
Due to the late start of festivities for last Friday night's much-anticipated opening of Pure/Plush Lounge, New Kingston's newest nightclub, some patrons opted to leave without seeing what the venue had to offer. There were also complaints...

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