Prison unrest - Juveniles create chaos at Fort Augusta women's facility - Warder stabbed, another doused with urine, faeces
Two correctional officers had to seek medical attention last evening as a weeklong protest by juveniles at the Fort Augusta women's prison in St Catherine escalated. It is reported that a female officer was stabbed on her hand by one of the irate juveniles...
- Dancehall under attack - Broadcasting Commission sticks to ban on vulgar lyrics
- OGM is No 1 - Decade-old ad agency crowned advertising champion for 2008
- Burning Spear on fire with second Grammy
- Vox pop
- Prime Minister of Jamaica orders forum on X-rated songs
- Principals group happy for ban
- Heavy rains halt progress on roadwork
- Stop order on Falmouth Wharf
- Bad planning blamed for sugar workers' plight
- Obama stimulus plan jumps major hurdle
- Tuesdaytalk - Hottest topics on the cocktail circuit
Taking education back to school
The following are excerpts of a Gleaner Editors' Forum which discussed accountability in education, among other issues. It took place last Wednesday at the newspaper's office...
- Children's advocate supports 'daggerin' ban
- Crime to climb - Economic downturn could worsen crisis
- Many parents failing to discipline kids - pastor
- Roselle roadwork to delay motorists
- CDA appealing for more foster families
- Sexual health expo Wednesday
- Lotto scam, police corruption cited for St James explosion
- Counting sheep
- Cop back from Darfur
- Peralto ahead of his time - Seaga
- Wolmer's Boys targets ABCs of SBAs
- Kingfish outpost unit nets eight illegal guns
Record tourist arrivals to Jamaica in January - Bartlett links bump to jazz festival
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced a 3.4 per cent increase in visitor arrivals for the month of January, compared with the same period last year. Bartlett said the 138,000 tourists who visited the island last month were the largest number of visitors...
- Nissan to slash 20,000 jobs, cut executive pay
- Former Puerto Rican governor pleads not guilty to corruption
- GM said to be in talks to reclaim Delphi plants
- Tribute to Ken Barned
Taylor leaps up rankings
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC):Fast bowler Jerome Taylor's heroics against England on Saturday has propelled him 11 places up the ICC Test-bowling rankings to sixth, his highest-ever spot in international cricket's rating system. The giant leap has put the 24-year-old just behind...
- West Indies selectors drop Marshall
- Fuller may miss rest of season
- Trinidad's Simmons eyeing Test debut
- JDF still on top in JTTA league
- Hockey girls beaten again
- Rampant Seba maul Mt Salem
- Jamalco are Open League queens
- Group calls for big changes at USA Track and Field
- Adams joins past players who have failed as managers
- Chelsea sack Scolari
- Lakers cool LeBron's Cavaliers
EDITORIAL - Unlock the wealth of the poor
Nearly a decade ago, the Peruvian economist and thinker Hernando de Soto placed persuasively before the world something community activists in developing countries already understood: that the world's poor were not all that poor. What they lacked, particularly poor...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Repeal Minimum Wage Act
The Editor, Sir: Believe it or not, there is more than a spurious link between the existence of a Minimum Wage Act and the recent calls from some quarters to validate, constitutionally, the 'right to strike'. Neither is of benefit to the Jamaican worker in the context...
- Double standards
- A lofty form of cowardice
- Convoluted blame game
- Cadet units add to discipline
- One world, different drumbeats
- JMA chides Rapley's critique
- Use sugar lands for other crops
- Losing the language logic
- Dangerous bush fires
There's something about 'yard'
BRITISH MEDIA created a buzz last week when it reported that troubled singer Amy Winehouse was considering coming to Jamaica to record her third album.Winehouse, a five-time Grammy Award winner, is known for her retro soul sound and beehive hairstyle...
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