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Showing posts with label Portland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portland. Show all posts

Saturday, April 24, 2010

JG - 30 more Haitians arrive

From my archive of press clippings:

Jamaica Gleaner

30 more Haitians arrive


Published: Sunday April 11, 2010


Members of the Marine Police yesterday intercepted a boat with 30 Haitians aboard, off the course of Bowden, St Thomas.

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Snippet(s):

"(T)he group includes 14 men, 10 children and six women. These Haitians arrived less than two weeks after the Jamaican Government sent back a group of 62 Haitians, who had landed in east Portland."


Saturday, April 4, 2009

JO - West Portland Labourites celebrate Court ruling

From my archive of press clippings:

Jamaica Observer

West Portland Labourites celebrate Court ruling

ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com

Saturday, February 28, 2009

BUFF BAY, Portland - Not even the heavy and intermittent showers from overnight and into the morning could prevent Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters from coming out into the streets and celebrating yesterday's ruling by the Appeal Court in the Daryl Vaz vs Abe Dabdoub dual citizenship case.

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Snippet(s):

"BUFF BAY, Portland - Jamaica Labour Party supporters in Buff Bay celebrate yesterday's Court of Appeal decision that a by-election be held to fill the West Portland seat, following the disqualification of Daryl Vaz, who was declared unfit to sit in the House of Representatives because of his dual citizenship."

Friday, January 30, 2009

JG - Thievery: a national disease

Jamaica Gleaner



Thievery: a national disease

Published: Sunday January 11, 2009

Avia Collinder, Gleaner Writer


DARING ACTS of theft featured prominently in the news in 2008 with the most amazing report being the theft of an entire beach. Most chilling, however, was the reported plundering of belongings of market vendors who died in the horrific Portland truck tragedy in December. Reports stated that the shop of one passenger was emptied after the accident.

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