Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Sunday | August 23, 2009
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LETTER OF THE DAY - Who needs who?
THE EDITOR, Sir: The phenomenal, indeed astronomical success of the Jamaican team in Berlin and the recent hosting of members of the diaspora by Jamaica forced me into a mode of reflection as to what benefit is the diaspora to Jamaica's success?

An Emmy and the dictator
ON THE occasion of General Augusto Pinochet's arrest in London in October 1998, his former Minister of Home Affairs, Sergio Onofre Jarpa, appalled by the demonstrations against the general in the British capital, expressed his desire to "make a movie" to educate international public opinion about what really happened in Chile under military rule.


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