Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Saturday | January 2, 2010
Newborn fills void - Couple says prayer answered
HOPE SHONE brightly for a couple at 1:58 yesterday morning when Rihanna Stacey-Anna Wilson was born at the Spanish Town Hospital, filling a void that was created two years ago when they lost their seven-year-old daughter in a motor vehicle accident. Read More...
Birth registration spike
THE REGISTRAR General's Department (RGD) is reporting a sharp increase in the number of babies being registered immediately after birth, and chief executive officer of the RGD, Dr Patricia Holness, is crediting the bedside-registration process for the increase. Read More...
'It's God's work' - Proud mother says bus-driving heroine was moved by the Creator
Florence Gordon-Howard is a deeply religious woman who believes that God plays a role in our daily lives. As such, the heroics of her youngest daughter, Jamaica Urban Transit Company bus driver, 32-year-old Annette Howard, in assisting injured persons at the crash site of the American Airlines (AA) Flight 331 on the Palisadoes Road on Tuesday, December 22, 2009, was God's doing. Read More...
New policy coming to stop runaways
The police are looking forward to the implementation of a new policy aimed at stemming the increasing numbers of missing children across the island. Read More...
Turbulent year ahead, say prophets
THERE SHALL be "weeping and wailing in Jamaica" this year, according to prophetic utterances by a group of church leaders. Prophesies concerning politicians, business leaders, church leaders, investments, turf wars, healing and deliverance are also highlighted in the Prophetic Word for 2010 and Onward. Read More...
Four killed on New Year's Day
FOUR JAMAICANS died violently less than 10 hours into the new year. Twenty-two-year-old Ricardo Goulbourne of Spring Village, Old Harbour, St Catherine, became the island's first murder victim for 2010. Read More...
