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'Cat' Coore pounces into dreadlocks in schools debate

RASTA was a bad word in Jamaica when David Coore first took his three sons to watch cricket matches at Sabina Park in the early 1960s.Coore was a respected lawyer who helped draft Jamaica's Constitution in 1962 and a member of Kingston Cricket Club which owned that venue.

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