June, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Jamaica seeks US$1 billion to fight gangs

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JAMAICA is seeking US$1 billion in loans and grants to help remove dons and rebuild the poor communities they have long dominated, reports Bloomberg News. The money will also be used to raise the complement […] […]

$166, the price of a life, because of poverty

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By Sandrea: MY GRIPE There are going to be a great many people who will read the story of Jesusa Molle, the Bolivian woman who sold her new born baby for $166, and condemn her. […] […]

Woman ‘sold baby for $166’

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A 30-YEAR-OLD Bolivian woman was arrested for selling her newborn baby for the equivalent of $US140 ($166), police said today. Police official Jose Borda, who heads the division of trafficking of persons in the city […] […]

Eighty-five dead in apartment fire

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AT least 85 people have been killed and more than 100 injured by a fire that tore through a row of crowded buildings in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, where a wedding party was under way, […] […]

Another security force killing for Public Defender

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THE family of Keith Clarke, the man killed during a botched raid by security forces searching for fugitive Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke have written to Public Defender Earl Witter asking that his office open an investigation. […] […]

Two assault rifles found in church

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POLICE today seized two more illegal weapons and a quantity of ammunition in a church in West Kingston yesterday. The find took place the same day Police Commissioner Owen Ellington toured sections of Tivoli Gardens […] […]

Grenadians threaten to give police a “taste of Jamaica”

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ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC — Six men, including a ‘don’ suspected of drug trafficking, have been arrested here after threatening to give lawmen a “taste of Jamaica”. During an appearance in the Gouyave Magistrate Court […] […]

Frenchwoman fined for wearing Islamic veil

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FRENCH police fined a woman for driving while wearing an Islamic veil, just weeks after a similar incident sparked a major political row. Motorbike police carrying out random alcohol tests stopped the 23-year-old French national […] […]

Roman Catholic bishop stabbed to death in Turkey

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ANKARA, Turkey—A Roman Catholic bishop was stabbed to death in southern Turkey on Thursday, a day before he was scheduled to leave for Cyprus to meet with the pope, officials and reports said. Luigi Padovese, […] […]

Toronto teacher faces sexual assault charges

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A teacher from a North York middle school has been charged with sexual assault and sexual interference following allegations involving a student. In a letter addressed to parents, Doug Loosemore, the principal of Don Mills […] […]