Child's play in the garden - Families celebrate Christmas despite tough year
Closing out a year when more than 60 children were murdered, hundreds of families esterday poured out to the Christmas Kiddiefest at Hope Gardens, St Andrew, to enjoy the Boxing Day activity.
- Jarrett calls for more road safety initiatives
- Detection system will work - Walker
- Closed-circuit cameras to hit May Pen's streets
- Repent! Churches to ask politicians to say they are sorry
- UWI hands over nine scholarships
- Craft institute grows from strength to strength
Gov't outlines benefits for families of crash victims
Bereaved family members broke down in tears during a meeting held at an abandoned church building in Millbank, Portland, on Tuesday, where funeral arrangements for 14 persons killed in an accident last Friday were being finalised.
- Across the nation
- Sister act III - Siblings making excellent contribution to education
- Marriage made easy - Foreigners awake to new process for 2009
- Scientists discover more than 1,000 species in Asia
- Hospitals in good shape
- BRIEFS
- Mind and Spirit: Quotes worth pondering
Agri ministry to increase number of RADA officers
Agriculture minister Dr Christopher Tufton says his ministry is aiming to have an additional 54 Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) officers in place by April 2009 to assist farmers across the country.Addressing farmers in Bamboo, St Ann...
Stunning Gayle seals super win
AUCKLAND, New Zealand(CMC): Chris Gayle's tremendous power-hitting lifted West Indies to a momentous win yesterday when the first-ever 'super over' was used as a tie-breaker for the first Twenty20 International.After the two sides battled astonishingly...
- Spinner hailed for rolein victory
- Jamaica's Olympic Joy
- Wheel N Deal for Pringle Cup
- Ricketts gets LA deal
- Lakers end Celtics' run
- Kissendal, Big Man Corner win pool titles
- Byfield heading for ANZ champs
- Miss Ruth makes all in 2-y-o stakes
- Test cricket's changing of the guard
- IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD
- PERFORMER OF THE WEEK - Skipper Gayle's majestic knock a saving grace
- Tevez gives tired Man U 1-0 victory
When depression hits children
In the traditional season of good cheer when gift giving and Christmas dinners are expected to be a main feature among many families, yesterday's Gleaner story about the high percentage of depressed children in...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Firearms as ID cards?
The Editor, Sir:Recently I stopped and watched as a man in plain clothes stopped a motorist just outside the City Centre Police Station in downtown Kingston and shouted at him to switch off his vehicle engine and...
- Celebrating Carolyn Gomes
- Life without Christians?
- Misplaced confidence
- A national challenge
- In support of home guards
From Ochi to MoBay parties to kick off '09
WESTERN BUREAU:While the Dragonaires are busy compiling musical notes for Sunset Resort and Spa New Year's Eve Ball, the hotel's owner Ian Kerr is crafting a name change for his Caribbean restaurant, Pimento, which is being rededicated to 'The Dragon', the late king Byron Lee.
LET'S talk ... life - Struggling to be positive
Dear Counsellor: I find your articles to be encouraging, enlightening and informative. I have great difficulties in maintaining a positive attitude. I am a Christian and pray daily.
Style: Glitzy and Ritzy - It's time to play ball
New Year's Eve is all about entering life's uncharted waters with glamorous optimism. Thus, we entertain the ritual of dressing up in fabulous garb.
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