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THE extradition hearing for Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke has been set for tomorrow by  Director of Public Prosecutions, Paula Llewellyn according to a release from the Press Association of Jamaica.The hearing is set to be held within the secure confines of the Mobile Reserve in order to avoid any untoward action by Coke’s sympathisers.Coke has reportedly expressed his intention to waive his right to an extradition hearing and face his accusers in the United States without delay.If a local magistrate’s grants him his wish then he could be handed over to United States marshals in short order and flown out to New York.He is accused of drugs and gun running by the US authorities. If found guilty he could be locked up for life and have his assets seized.

Taken from the Miami Herald)
By TRENTON DANIEL
tdaniel@MiamiHerald.com
South Florida Jamaicans used a meeting with Jamaican officials to blast the political system.
Scores of South Florida Jamaican leaders, troubled at the unfolding crisis back home, gathered at a Miami Gardens church Wednesday to express their concerns and call on government officials to move quickly to solve the problem.
The [...]

PUBLISHED BY THE FREEPORT NEWS:
Olint’s lead principal David Smith is once again under the microscope, with the decision by the courts to close down Turks and Caicos Bank (TCI Bank), which means that funds from investors in the foreign currency trading outfit, Olint, are entombed in that bankrupt entity and now subject to the process [...]

Thanks for choosing Air Jamaica, the little piece of Jamaica that flies no more’ — flight attendant
BY NADINE WILSON Sunday Observer staff reporter wilsonn@jamaicaobserver.com
Sunday, May 02, 2010
FOR four decades, tourists and ‘yardies’ alike have flocked to Jamaica on the ‘Lovebird’ to enjoy the tropical climate, the food and everything else the island has [...]

THE Jamaican Government has found a buyer for the only two aircraft owned by Air Jamaica that are being sold to pay taxes owed to the Internal R …