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Monday, 23 October 2006 |
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Police and teachers should be paid well Dear Sir: Both the teachers and the police in Miami have been demonstrating publicly for more pay. Well, I thought this only happened in Third World countries. However, it looks like in every country police and teachers are taken for granted. The pay is relatively small, but the responsibilities of these two groups of public servants are very great. Why is Miami having problems paying teachers and police properly? This is a rich city and county. The county just built this expensive concert center, and you tell me they can’t find the money to increase the salaries of teachers and police. It was just found out that millions of dollars were given away to contractors who should be building houses for the poor. Couldn’t some of this money be diverted instead to raise the pay of teachers and police? |
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Tuesday, 17 October 2006 |
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Trust God, not man Dear Editor: I can’t understand all this fuss about Mr. Foley and the young men he was trying to fool around with in the House of Representatives in Washington. If you all read and understand your Bible, you all would understand that men are weak and will always fail. The common human being will always succumb to temptations, especially temptations of the flesh. We, including me, put too much store in man. Don’t care how someone looks and sounds respectable, they are likely to fall to temptation and do something that shock and disappoint us. It gets worse when that someone rise to a position of power. Power blinds, making people believe that no one can touch them. Because of this, we shouldn’t be disappointed when those, especially the ones in high places, fail us. Let us continue to place our faith in God The Father, not man. As far as man is concerned, expect anything from them at any time, and we won’t be disappointed. Mother Fern Barclay, North Miami Beach |
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New condo for Pembroke Park |
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Sunday, 08 October 2006 |
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The face of Pembroke Park is set to be a little brighter with the addition of the Pembroke Park Place The gated-community will comprise three mid-rise residential buildings, a 4,100 square-foot clubhouse and 7,000 square feet of separate retail space. The 168-unit project is designed to provide South Florida’s valued workforce with affordable and attainable for-sale residences, and marketing efforts will be aimed at targeting a demographic currently being priced out of the market. Prices for one-bedroom units will start from $166,000, for two-bedroom, $203,000, and for three-bedroom residences, $264,000. The developers will be aligning themselves with preferred lenders to offer a variety of unique financing options, one of which is a two-year rate lock option, with assistance from affordable housing programs available through the State of Florida. condominium, which will be built in a joint venture as affordably priced mixed-use development. Pembroke Park will debut as an affordably priced condominium community at 5400 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd.The 7.6-acre project will sit along Hallandale Beach Blvd., between 52nd and 56th Avenues and adjacent to Pembroke Park’s Town Hall. The developer is MG Pembroke Park LLC, a partnership between Roger Miller, managing partner of The Miller Group and Ken Gordon, president of AmeriBuilt Corporation. |
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Sunday, 08 October 2006 |
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Broaden the entertainment at Jamaica Jerk Festival Dear Sir: Hope many of your readers got a chance to go to the recent Jamaica Jerk Festival. It was really a good outing for the family. However, I still think that it could be better. This is one of the rare events in the Caribbean community that is fit for the entire family, but I would like it to be much more like a carnival. Remember the country fairs that were held in Jamaica on times like Boxing Day, and First of August. At these fairs they had entertainment like Ferris wheel; merry-go-round; donkey and horse ride, maypole dances, and assorted games of chance. I would like to see these introduce to the Jerk Festival, it would give it such a unique Jamaican atjosphere, and provide a broader variety of entertainment than what now exists. No one would want to leave the festival, and the vendors would sell much more food. I hope the planners of the event give some thought to this. Jimmy Francis, Miami |
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