Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Friday | November 27, 2009
Big bus bill - Privy Council overturns ruling against Millwood's transport company - Government faces payment of more than $1 billion to NTCS
INFORMATION MINISTER Daryl Vaz says the Government is now faced with an unbudgeted payment to the Ezroy Millwood-led National Transport Co-operative Society (NTCS).
The cash-strapped Jamaica Labour Party administration was yesterday dealt a severe blow... Read More...
Runaway tractor injures mother and 14-y-o son
Some students at the Corporate Area-based Sts Peter and Paul Prep School watched yesterday morning as an out-of-control tractor slammed into a motor car, pushing it through the perimeter fence on to the school compound and injuring its two occupants.
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Daniel turns his back on crime
"It's not about who I was, it's who I am," Daniel Barnes is keen to stress. He is intent on proving that he is not to be judged by his past, as he is charting a path to a future filled with hope and promise for better, much better, and it is useless looking back. Read More...
Hundreds graduate from justice programme
Despite the violence, lack of funds, disagreements and other challenges faced by participants in vocational training courses pro-vided by the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP), more than 400 students held fast and on Wednesday reaped... Read More...
Davies stands firm
Former finance minister Dr Omar Davies is resolutely standing behind his fiscal record and policies, despite aggressive questioning from attorney-at-law David Wong Ken at yesterday's sitting of the commission of enquiry into the Financial Sector... Read More...
Jamaica-Tanzania link to be continued
Jamaica and Tanzania yesterday agreed to set up a binational commission to develop and monitor a programme of cooperation between the two nations. The signing of the bilateral agreement took place at Jamaica House on the last day of Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho... Read More...
LYN TRIAL - Crown to wrap in Lyns case
The Crown is expected to close its case today at the trial of the two men charged with the murder of elderly Manchester couple Richard and Julia Lyn. The prosecution has so far called 48 witnesses at the trial which began on October 5 before Senior... Read More...
EduVision awards sparks ideas
WESTERN BUREAU:The need to establish more online campuses within Jamaica's colleges must be part of the future plans of universities, according to Jerry Ice, president and chief executive officer of The Graduate School in the United States... Read More...
Police post missing children's faces to arrest 'Back Road' problem
Following reports in The Gleaner that a number of children reported missing were becoming prostitutes along the Portmore Back Road in St Catherine, the police have now decided on a new course of action. The St Catherine South police are now issuing the pictures ... Read More...
Docs air the grief they face
IT HAPPENED 10 years ago, but for Dr Sandra Chambers, medical officer of health for Kingston and St Andrew, the pain "still feels like yesterday". In tears, Chambers told a gathering of health workers at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel yesterday... Read More...
