Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Friday | April 17, 2009
Choosing a better future in the Americas
As we approach the Summit of the Americas, our hemisphere is faced with a clear choice. We can overcome our shared challenges with a sense of common purpose, or we can stay mired in the old debates of the past. For the sake of all our people, we must choose the future... Read More...
Accross Jamaica
HEALTH - National ID system - 2010 The Government is to implement its National Identification System in another year.The national registration system, which was first proposed by the then Electoral Advisory Committee in 1994, is one of several measures announced... Read More...
Florida surgeons bring hope to 'heartached' infants
Wayne Blake and Esther Stephenson smiled as they watched their infant son sleep in his hospital bed Wednesday morning at the Bustamante Hospital for Children in St Andrew. Somewhere in the hospital, surgeons were preparing to mend a hole ... Read More...
Dominion turned into dominance
The ever-deepening global crisis that has sent individuals, families, businesses and nations into a tailspin heralds a call to change from dominance and plunder to stewardship and dominion, says the Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, the Rt Rev... Read More...
IT centre offers hope to unemployed youth
St Thomas resident Kamoy Brown, 23, is unemployed, but is optimistic that he will get a job soon. With his newly acquired computer skills, gained from attending classes at the information technology (IT) and homework facility at the Rowlandsfield Community Centre in the parish.... Read More...
G-20 stance won't affect downtown development - Shaw
FINANCE MINISTER Audley Shaw has moved to calm fears about the effects of the G-20 stance on offshore banking and tax havens, saying it will not affect the planned offshore financial centre for downtown Kingston. "I want to indicate... Read More...
Fire hydrant grants drying up
OVER 3,000 of the country's fire hydrants are in a state of disrepair. Prime Minister Bruce Golding said on Tuesday that, of the 11,699 fire hydrants across the island, 8,063 are working and 3,636 are in various states of disrepair... Read More...
