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2 years since Dudus saga, what’s up for Tivoli

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Webmasters Make $$$ Yvonne McCalla Sobers, Jamaica Gleaner Contributor Shawna answered her cellphone with scream after scream. No words. This was Labour Day 2010 in Tivoli Gardens and bullets had already struck her fridge and microwave. The security forces had already raided her home and taken away her 15-year-old brother. She wasn’t allowed to ask questions, so she didn’t know where the soldiers were taking her brother. She feared he might not return alive. Worst of all for Shawna, she was reliving the Monday in July 2001 when she caught…

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Beenie, Sizzla and Shabba on Belgian gays good side?

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Webmasters Make $$$ GAY and transgender organisations in Belgium have promised to end their protest at Reggae concerts featuring acts who are known to have recorded songs bashing their lifestyle. The commitment was made in a joint statement between gay and transgender organisations, the promoters of reggae concerts and reggae festivals and the reggae community in Belgium, days after Beenie Man issued a video recording apologising for his anti-gay songs and admitting that he respected all human beings. The gay and transgender organisations have staged numerous protests against the planned…

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Curb crime in Jamaica, amend the laws

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Webmasters Make $$$ DEAR EDITOR: It is no great revelation to state that Jamaica has many difficult and intractable problems. However, I am convinced that for several of them, if not most, there are logical and methodical approaches that can be taken to claw our way out of them if we would only recognise that we have a crisis and act as though we are serious. Case in point: Why don’t we take the commissioner of police seriously when he outlines the points of weakness in our legislation and laws…

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