Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Thursday | January 21, 2010
Begging for Haiti - Jamaica goes hunting for money to care for 'refugees'
WITH INCREASING preparations under way for an expected wave of people from the earthquake-wrecked Haiti, the Jamaican Government is looking to international donors for the millions of dollars it expects to spend to house and care ... Read More...
Danville shakes up - Entire department transferred to 'never-never land'
The entire 13 members of the cashier section of the Newport East branch of the Customs Department were transferred with immediate effect yesterday, as the tough-talking Commissioner of Customs Danville Walker responded to whispers that all was not well there... Read More...
Big aftershock frightens quake-struck country
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): A POWERFUL aftershock sent Haitians screaming into the streets yesterday, collapsing buildings, cracking roads and adding to the trauma of a nation stunned by an apocalyptic quake eight days ago..... Read More...
Recounting the horror - Jamaican tells of his brush with a 7.0
Ricardo Walters, a Jamaican who arrived in Haiti on January 5, said by the time he left he felt like his liver had moved. Haiti, to date, has had more than 40 aftershocks since the big earthquake last Tuesday. ... Read More...
PNPYO slams Comrades for Parliament fracas - Simpson Miller calls Gov't disingenuous
The People's National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) yesterday veered away from its customary towing of party lines to launch a broadside on its parent organisation.In an uncharacteristically strongly worded... Read More...
High-end lumber racket unearthed
THE POLICE have uncovered a scheme in which indigenous trees in one of the nation's forest reserves are being cut down and the lumber sold to high-end furniture market overseas for millions of dollars. So far, no arrests have been made... Read More...
Death penalty for Lyn murderers
THE TWO men who were convicted on December 18 last year of the murder of elderly Manchester couple, Richard and Julia Lyn, showed no signs of emotion yesterday when they were given the death penalty.They are Lennox Swaby,... Read More...
11 arrested for kidnappings
Eleven suspected kidnappers are behind bars and investigators say they are making significant headway in the case of the prominent Manchester businessman whose son was kidnapped last year.Among the 11 are eight... Read More...
