JAMAICA Observer online readers have reacted with praise and condemnation to controversial Doran Dixon's massive win in the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) presidential race. The preliminary results, released Tuesday by the JTA, showed that Dixon grabbed 9,051, or just under 62 per cent, of the 14,716 votes cast in the June 17 - 21 ballot. Dixon has been heavily criticised over a perceived derogatory analogy likening the a dispute over benefits between the JTA and Education Minister Ronald Thwaites as a stand-off between a lion-hearted cat and a "mongrel dog".
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