A mother's grief - Newspaper vendor mourns murdered son
"Me nuh inna nuh war, so why dem had to kill him?" wailed 58-year-old newspaper vendor Marvalyn Lawrence as she mourned her teenage son, Omar Barrett, another victim of gunmen's bullets. The tears streamed freely down her face as Lawrence's body rocked from side to side...
- Bees are ready to rumble
- Teen pleads guilty to 11-y-o's murder
- Pregnant woman, two others murdered in St Catherine
- Ellington shuffles the pack
- Youthlink writer's body found
- Today is World Wetlands Day
- Water woes close UTech ...
Immigration Corner - I don't want my child to go!
Hello Mrs Walker-Huntington, I HAVE been involved with a man for close to 11 years and we have a daughter who is nine. About five or six years ago, my boyfriend told me his mom started filing for him, his older daughter and our daughter.
- Seeking medical attention in the UK
- Normal weight obesity - Can you look slim, have a normal body weight and yet still be fat?
- Student woes
- Response to 'Ring of fire'
Digicel makes Bold new move
Digicel has unveiled the newest addition to its wide range of BlackBerry smartphones."The BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone gives customers the freedom and flexibility to organise their work and social life on one sleek and powerful device...
- Customs speeds up paperless reform
- Toyota begins correction of faulty gas pedals
- Obama unveils US$3.8T budget
- Five-day Davos forum ends on note of humility
- Honda recalls 646,000 Fit hatchbacks worldwide
Target man - Jamaican striker wooed by Canada's national team
A promising young Jamaican player has become a prime recruiting target for Canada's men's national football team as it cranks up its efforts to qualify for World Cup 2014 in Brazil.
Canada's head coach, Stephen Hart, said he has approached St Ann-born striker O'Brian White...
- Gayle confident West Indies can win ODI series
- Whitmore applauds locals
- Olympic ski hopeful needs $5m
- Anglin juggles way to South Africa
- Bridgmohan closes gap with double
- Hockey to get centre of excellence
- Gilbert cops double, Carter shines at Queen's meet
- Campbell, Goule top High Mountain 10k
- Taylor returns as Jamaica train with pink balls
- Gibson new West Indies coach
- English, Morgan secure DPL transfer
- IOC considers probing US relay doping case
- Molynes, Hampshire showdown
EDITORIAL - PetroCaribe and theIMF programme
IN THE broad economic programme outlined to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Government declared its intention to "continue to draw financing from the PetroCaribe facility", which, on the face of it, makes sense.
LETTER OF THE DAY - Self-centred tertiary students must be more creative
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE GLEANER, through its assertion in the editorial of February 1, stated, among other things, that "the Government should consider creative solutions to help tertiary students", has seemingly expressed the misguided notion that the Government...
- Inconvenient truths
- Thanks, Sir Hilary
- Questions for Bartlett
- Bad advice from diaspora group
- What the JDX cannot do
- Adoption process needs review
- Lack of forward planning
- Shirley's wrong analysis
- Hoteliers should support Air Jamaica bid
High expectations for low-budget Reggae Film Fest
Barbara Blake-Hannah, chairperson of the Reggae Film Festival and head of the Jamaica Film Academy, is promising an exciting festival this year, despite her limited budget. "With less than a shoestring budget, we have created an exciting calendar of events that will prove...
- Third World honours nat'l heroes with 'Patriots'
- JCDC to host islandwide Bob Marley Symposia
- Marley art gallery opens tomorrow
- Stars gather to cover 'We Are the World' for Haiti
- Ocho Rios Jazz Festival celebrates 20th anniversary
- Something extra
Flaring tempers sear St Andrew streets
So I was travelling along Hagley Park Road in St Andrew the other day and had an encounter with a squeegee-wielding straggler who had me contemplating committing grievous bodily harm and running off to Mexico to lay low for a while. I mean, I'm as law-abiding as the next guy...
HAITI - Baptists may face trial in US
Haiti (AP): Haitian officials said yesterday they are thinking of sending 10 United States Baptists to the US for prosecution after they were arrested trying to take 33 children out of the country without government...
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