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MANNING’S PAST STUDENT ASSOCIATION, NEW YORK CHAPTER HONORS EIGHT WESTMORELITES

On Sunday June 8, 2003 at its 16th Anniversary Awards Luncheon at Ramada Hotel, JFK Airport, the Alumni Association of the oldest high school in Jamaica highlighted the business acumen; academic achievements, and athletic prowess of the nominees for this special acknowledgment. Those individuals were D. Owen “Hurry Hurry” Sinclair, O.D., Custos Rotulorum of the parish, (state); Rovan (Duba) George Locke, Ph. D.; Horace George (Skip) Levy, M.D.; Yvonne Gardener, Esquire; Yvonne Williams McKenzie, R.N., Zenobia Fonsekia Whyte-Kelly, R.N.; and, Monica B. Mullings, MSC.
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EGGELLETION SPEAKS OUT AGAINST BLACK’S POLITICAL APATHY

By Rovan G. Locke                                     

The well-attired guests at the Pearl of Fort Lauderdale Lodge N019, Annual Dinner Dance on Saturday night, June 14, 2003, were caught off guard by the stinging address by Broward County Commissioner, Josephus Eggelletion. Certainly, no one seated in the main hall of the Lauderdale Lakes Municipal Complex expected such a penetrative analyses on Black’s political apathy and the deleterious effects on empowerment for this ethnic group in the County and the rest of the country.
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RAISING THE BAR 

BY REICLAND ANDERSON                            
  Drinks? Beer? Whiskey? Rum? Or does the legal profession come to mind, where Lawyers are called to the bar. For many a bar is a five feet length of one-inch steel used to bore holes in huge rocks readying them for blasting. These were manually used prior to the era of the mobile air compressor. Alongside this we have the crow bar, a kind of lever used for moving objects. Someone once said, “ Give me a bar (lever) long enough and I will move the world.” In either case, whether bursting up huge rocks or leveraging heavy machinery and loads, a BAR is an indispensable ally. After 15 years looking at the sign BAR realtor, we must conclude that this interpretation of Bar has to be the most appropriate to compare to Barrington
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Group issues ultimatum to
Bush on FCAT 
By Sandra Hernandez
Staff Writer

May 12, 2003
MIAMI · More than two dozen black church leaders, elected officials and community leaders gathered Sunday in a Miami church to issue an ultimatum to Gov. Jeb Bush: rethink the FCAT testing policy or face an economic boycott.
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STOP SMOKING IN TIME FOR THE NEW “NO-SMOKING” LAW
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – More than 90 percent of smokers would quit if they could, according to Dr. Robert Wernick, Broward clinical psychologist. However, the challenges to kicking the habit are many.
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On a Jamaican Beach, a Literary Festival Defies Nature

By SARAH BOXER

REASURE BEACH, Jamaica ? As the Jamaicans say, “Much respect is due.” To whom? Maybe to the rain and sea.
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Local Government Polls in Jamaica Expect Some Surprise

By Cedric Johnson

The opposition “Jamaica Labor Party says it will campaign on national fundamental issues and use the elections as a referendum to judge the performance of the P. J. Patterson led government. On the other hand, the PNP will be on the hustings, selling the idea that it has performed and that it is best able to formulate and implement local policy issues for the benefit of the people.
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