Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Monday | January 25, 2010
Fired up! PNP ready to debate ...again
In an apparent warm-up for tomorrow's parliamentary debate on the proposed debt-exchange programme, a no-nonsense Portia Simpson Miller, leader of the Opposition, yesterday lashed the Government for the economic burden with which pensioners and other groups will be saddled.... Read More...
'Sham enquiry' - AJ says FINSAC commissioners carrying too much baggage
Stopping short of calling for its abandonment, Opposition Spokesman on Justice, A.J. Nicholson, has called the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) commission of enquiry a "sham". In an interview with The Gleaner yesterday, Nicholson said... Read More...
Fire boats - a sinking service
The capacity of the Jamaica Fire Brigade to deal with fires on ships and other marine vessels, and buildings on the waterfront, has been severely reduced, as two of its three fire boats are out of commission. And according to deputy commissioner in charge of operations... Read More...
Big reading success
A reading programme targeting local as well as regional primary schoolchildren in grades one to three has been hailed as a tremendous success by Jamaican educators. The Caribbean Centre of Excellence for Teacher Training (CETT) programme introduced... Read More...
Cops say ready for Haitian invasion - Still concerned about holding centre
As various state agencies and non-governmental organisations brace for an influx of refugees from Haiti to Portland, the police have increased their surveillance of coastal areas of the eastern Jamaica parish... Read More...
Registry coping with advise wave
A six-month-old baby sexually molested by her father. A 15-year-old girl being pimped by her mother. A 10-year-old boy set on fire by his father. These are among the horrifying images which constitute the collage of pain and abuse in the logs of the Office... Read More...
Housing soon for tourism workers
WESTERN BUREAU: Talks are reportedly at an advanced stage between the Jamaica Redevelopment Foundation Inc and the Jamaican Government for the acquisition of lands near Grange Pen in Lilliput, St James, to construct houses for tourism workers."Grange Pen... Read More...
Holy smokes!
The Jamaica Customs Department last week supervised the destruction of two million sticks of cigarettes with a street value of more than $40 millionThis was the latest in a series of efforts by Customs to prohibit the illegal flow of cigarettes... Read More...
150,000 buried and counting
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): The truckers filling Haiti's mass graves with bodies reported ever-higher numbers: More than 150,000 quake victims have been buried by the government, an official said Sunday.That doesn't count those still under the debris... Read More...
