Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Monday | January 5, 2009
MP to face court - Police may charge Robertson for using abusive language
Government minister James Robertson is facing arrest after reportedly using abusive language at a police team in the aftermath of an alleged gunfight in Norris, St Thomas, on Saturday. Inspector Paul Anderson of the Yallahs police told The Gleaner yesterday that the summons...
Market inferno - Downtown Kingston vendors cry arson
In-between drying tears and sweat, and rummaging for valuables among the charred rubble of stalls, vendors seethed as they blamed arsonists for a fire that razed the Jubilee Market in downtown Kingston yesterday morning. "Tell me, is it right for you to work so hard and man...
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Daggerin' backlash
The involvement of children as young as eight years old in sexually explicit street dances has sparked concern among rights advocates.Children were seen, during the Yuletide season, performing the daggerin', a quasi-erotic dance...
Munro student dies in crash
Munro College is mourning a student who was killed in motor-vehicle accident along the Barbary Hall main road in St Elizabeth yesterday. The student has been identified as 17-year-old Amal Clarke. Amal, a lower-sixth former, died after the vehicle in which he was travelling...
Richardson pulls out of Obama Cabinet
WASHINGTON (AP): New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson abandoned his bid to become commerce secretary under pressure of a grand-jury investigation about political favouritism - an investigation that threatened to embarrass President-elect Barack...
Live by the universal teachings - Golding
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has urged Jamaicans to live by the universal teachings of the Bible, arguing that it would make Jamaica a better place."We do not have to depend entirely on miracles. If what you teach in this church and in all the churches across Jamaica...
Nation called to look to Jesus amid crisis
Faced with the prospect of harsher economic difficulties and the ever-increasing level of crime and violence, a church pastor is challenging the nation to look to Jesus as the "only hope". Pastor Adrian Cotterell, president of the East Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists...
A festive farewell
Jamaican film-maker Richard 'Dickie' Jobson lived his life with spark and fun and that was how his family celebrated him on the weekend. Under cloudy skies, family and friends gathered on the lawns of Strawberry Hill Hotel and Spa in St Andrew to bid the Countryman...
Israelis slice deeper into Gaza
GAZA CITY (AP): Thousands of Israeli troops, backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, pushed deeper into Gaza Sunday, fighting militants at close range and surrounding the coastal territory's largest city in the first full day of an overwhelming ground...
Israel intensifies battle against Hamas in Gaza
Anas Mansour sleeps in his street clothes in a south Gaza refugee camp, with his ID in his pocket so he can flee quickly if fighting gets worse. In Gaza City, the 10 members of the Karam family huddle in their hallway at night, kept awake by artillery fire booming outside...
