Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Thursday | January 28, 2010
JDX success! - Shaw says programme meets target Offer extended to assist small bondholders
FINANCE MINISTER Audley Shaw yesterday reported a 91 per cent take-up of the $701-billion Jamaica Debt Exchange (JDX) bond offer, ahead of the 90 per cent take-up of the $701-billion Jamaica Debt Exchange (JDX) bond offer, ahead of the 90 per cent target... Read More...
Jazzin' up Trelawny - Tonight's festival expected to reap millions in tourist dollars
WESTERN BUREAU: Multi-Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds will be the major drawing card when the 17th staging of the much-anticipated Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival moves into its new home - the spacious and exquisitely decorated Trelawny ... Read More...
Secure Air Jamaica sale or delay deal, says IMF
THE BRUCE Golding administration has less than 48 hours to finalise plans to deal with Air Jamaica or risk a further delay in its proposal to ink a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a US$1.25 billion stand-by arrangement by next... Read More...
Worry for Haiti - Part 2 - Gleaner journalist returns, but concerned that earthquake-rocked country faces even tougher days
IT WAS quite disturbing to see Jamaican health workers removing stones, sticks and other foreign materials from wounds that had been poorly dressed by health workers from other countries. But, in the midst of Haiti's plight, there was the occasional reason... Read More...
'She's hungry, cold and stranded' - Grandmother asks Gov't to bring 15-y-o grand child to Jamaica
THE GRANDMOTHER of a teenaged girl, who is stranded near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, is appealing for help to get her granddaughter to Jamaica. Fifteen-year-old Paula Sabrina Brown, a Haitian national of Jamaican parentage... Read More...
Dr Proctor found guilty
WORLD-RENOWNED botanist, 89-year-old Dr George Proctor, and his driver, 43-year-old Glenmore Fillington, were convicted yesterday by a seven-member jury of conspiracy to murder Proctor's wife and three other women.... Read More...
Dollar's decline brings Brits ashore
WESTERN BUREAU: THE DEPRECIATION of the Jamaican dollar could become a windfall for bargain-hunting British holidaymakers, says research just released by the Post Office.Britain remains the country's third-largest... Read More...
