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Young Investors: Despite Break, Dexter Still Dominant

A confident Dexter Smith has taken a break, maintaining a cash-only portfolio worth over JA $1.2 million and a virtually unassailable lead in the final quarter of the Young Investors' Stock Market Competition.

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Jamaica To Extend Copyright Period To 70 Years

The National Library held an interesting forum in Kingston mid-September - a forum at which the fore as well as the contentious issue of the duration of the current copyright term. General Manager of the Jamaica Music Society, Evon Mullings spoke passionately in favor of an extension of the copyright term from fifty to seventy years.

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Red Stripe To Make Beer In U.S.

Amid rising costs and flat export sales to the U.S. market,
early next year, Diageo’s Kingston-based Red Stripe will be
manufacturing Red Stripe beer for the U.S. market in the United
States itself instead of Jamaica. The move will reportedly cost seventy jobs over the next six months.

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Retiring Jamaican PM Backs Stability and Young Leaders

Retiring Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding has assured Jamaica’s international creditors that the country will not deviate from its current maro-economic path which has brought some stability to the island amid global turmoil. He has also backed the younger candidates in a leadership struggle to replace him.

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While acknowledging the role his defence of the constitutional rights of convicted
gangster Christopher Coke played in his decision to resign later this year, Golding
emphasized that it was also time for younger leaders in both the ruling Jamaica Labour
Party and the opposition Peoples National Party leaders.

We reproduced excerpts from Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s broadcast to Jamaica on
Sunday October 2, 2011.

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