http://jamaica-gleaner.com/ The oldest and leading newspaper in Jamaica editor@gleanerjm.com (Garfield Grandison) roland.booth@gleanerjm.com (Roland Booth) en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 60 Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT Newspapers What seemed like an easy way to make $15,000 for a Corporate Area man has mushroomed into a nightmare that could end with him and several others locked behind bars. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead1.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead1.html This is the second in a series of stories for Child Month, focusing on some of Jamaica's most vulnerable adolescents and young people. All names have been changed for confidentiality. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead2.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead2.html OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN on agriculture J.C. Hutchinson wants the current system for the issuing of receipts by farmers to purchasers to be tweaked allowing for invoices to be submitted as well. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead3.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead3.html Fifty years after the State used police officers to brutalise members of the Rastafarian faith in Coral Gardens, St James, the cops are being accused of more terrorism at an event to commemorate the 1963 atrocity. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead4.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead4.html Education Minister Ronald Thwaites has heaped high praise on the principal, staff and students at Edith Dalton-James High School in St Andrew for saving Government more than $2 million. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead5.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead5.html The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is imploring the government to speedily make a decision on which entity will be given the job of supplying the country with 360 megawatts (MW) of power to replace the aged and inefficient generating plants now operating. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead6.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead6.html The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) under its Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) project and in association with the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment is inviting applications for community enterprises in tourism and agriculture. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead7.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead7.html The philanthropic arm of the Jamaica National Building Society, the JN Foundation, has come to the aid Children First, the Spanish Town, St Catherine-based facility established to assist out-of-school children who fall between the cracks in the education system. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead8.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead8.html France's president has signed into law a controversial bill making the country the ninth in Europe, and 14th globally, to legalise gay marriage. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead9.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead9.html Human-rights watchdog Amnesty International's researcher on Jamaica, Chiara Liguori, has called on the Government to act swiftly to undertake a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the security forces' 2010 incursion into Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead1.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130519/lead/lead1.html