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"With this new cardiac ward, [the children facing surgery] have a fighting chance. We shifted all our interest in getting this ward up because that is how important it is." -- Philanthropist Orville 'Shaggy' Burrell on the long-term benefits of his Make A Difference Foundation's latest mega-donation to the Bustamante Hospital for Children
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"When you go to a track meet running the 400M hurdles, you are fully stressed out, but when you go to a track meet running the sprint hurdles you are having fun, and I think it is time for her to have fun, and I support her." -- Track icon Deon Hemmings-McCatty endorsing Olympian Melanie Walker's switch to the sprints
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"We are very happy for this, and we are looking forward to the other items to have a full slate for proper accountability because Jamaica's police have a high rate of fatal shootings and with that high rate there must be a high degree of quality accountability. Jamaica must be an example of quality accountability." -- INDECOM Commissioner Terrence Williams on the wearing of body cameras by members of the Jamaican constabulary
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"I am asking principals and other persons in the school system not to react in a defensive manner towards the findings of the [Education and Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates] study because the school is an important channel for positive behavioural intervention support to take place." -- National Security Minister Peter Bunting on the islandwide backlash over the findings of the notorious JCF study
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