Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Friday | November 27, 2009
Western Jamaica welcomes legal seminar - Lightbourne, McCalla to head list of presenters
The country's Justice Minister and Attorney General, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, and Chief Justice Zaila McCalla head the star-studded group of legal luminaries that will invade western Jamaica this weekend. The two will address delegates ... Read More...
Three raise hands for top cop post
THE RACE to fill the post of top cop is well under way, with at least three applications submitted since advertisements began running in local newspapers on Sunday. With nine days to go before the December 4 deadline, The Gleaner has learnt that... Read More...
Offering NUFF Hope to Jamaicans
With the economic crisis in the country forcing many Jamaicans out of jobs and staring at a calamitous future, one organisation has thrown several of them a lifeline of opportunity and NUFF Hope. The non-profit organisation NUFF Hope Limited, an offshoot... Read More...
NWC worries as water crisis deepens
Jamaica, already in its deepest economic crisis, even while in the clutches of a monstrous crime problem, is now facing an even more threatening crisis, drought. Water levels in most National Water Commissions (NWC) systems across Jamaica have reached critical... Read More...
Salvation Army uses skills training to tackle crime
THE ORGANISATION that has played an integral part in Jamaican life for 122 years is now working with persons from the inner city to help reduce their involvement in criminal activities.Colonel Onal Castor, territorial commander of the Salvation Army... Read More...
Do Jamaicans hate E10 gas?
Reports of what drivers' experiences have been with E10 are continuing to pour in. Do any of these problems sound like yours? Continue to fill out The Gleaner's E10 survey and tell us what you think. You can find it on go-jamaica.com... Read More...
Grenada's former deputy PM praises Hamilton
Grenada's former Deputy prime minister, Bernard Coard, who was released from prison in September after spending 26 years behind bars for the murder of Grenada's Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop, was one of the many guests... Read More...
Tanzania revises growth target
The Tanzanian Government has revised its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth target from eight to five per cent this fiscal year, due to the effects of the global economic crisis.President of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete, told a joint sitting of the Upper... Read More...
Jurors on bribery rap granted bail
Supreme Court Judge Bryan Sykes has granted bail to the two female jurors who were arrested earlier this month for allegedly bribing the relative of an accused man to free him. They were each offered bail in the sum of $200,000 with sureties... Read More...
Judge makes example of knife-wielding teen
Resident Magistrate Sheron Barnes sent a strong message to schoolboys on Tuesday when she jailed 18-year-old Chevaughn Fearon of Lambs River, Westmoreland, for nine months.Fearon had injured his teacher at the Maud McLeod... Read More...
Kensington Basic making a difference
There was no large fake cardboard cheque, no bronze statuettes or plaques, no giant plasma TV screen give-away, no free barbecued chicken or hotdogs. More than 100 parents of children who attend Kensington Basic School (KBS) in Portmore, St Catherine, participated... Read More...
