Icon lost - Golding, Simpson Miller mourn Nettleford
Jamaica lost one of its most revered cultural figures last night when Professor Rex Nettleford, vice-chancellor emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and founder of the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), died, just hours before he would have celebrated...
- Wetland warning
- CARICOM against toxic waste ship passing through Caribbean waters
- Proctor gets four years
- Air Jamaica to suspend some of its routes
- New small-business loan scheme unveiled by Scotia
- SMART CHOICES - Recovering quickly from an earthquake
- Homework centre for C Spring, Cassava Piece
- Buchanan calls for cloud seeding to help with drought conditions
Meet a two-year-old reader - Mom home-teaches little Kimeila in Moneague
When 20-year-old Mesha-Gay McKenzie decided to start teaching her then six-month-old daughter to read with the aid of a DVD she bought in Florida, along with flash cards and books, here were many detractors...
- 40 Clarendon farmers awarded for hard work
- Late Trelawny custos to be buried tomorrow
- Take a moment to share a smile
- Police, 'Rema' residents split over facts of triple killing
- Children's Villages Jamaica sends out SOS
- New strategies to improve CIB
- Murdered Chito was '89 Mom of the Year - Friend expresses sorrow at her passing
- Health ministry 'alert' for spate of diseases - Swine flu was 'dry run' for other outbreaks
- Go for growth,Gentles urges coffee farmers
- Evangelical icon praised for service
- Politicians laud the late Albert Huie
Market capitulates on rates - Benchmark T-bill yields 12.5%
Benchmark T-bill yields 12.5%In what appears to be a capitulation to Government's push to lower rates in line with the Jamaica Debt Exchange (JDX) offer, the monthly treasury bill auction yielded 12.5 per cent on the benchmark six-month bill and 11.68...
- Stock market regresses six years - Wealth depleted to $493b from high of $820b
- Factories Corporation heads uptown - Swaps UDC for NCB as landlord
- Bond float planned for factories, but Samuda still weighing options
- Mechanics train for Red Seal certification in Canada
- Cohen to run NCB Cap Markets
- LIME fetes regional unions to strengthen links - Not a wage pact, says labour boss
- UNESCO to relocate downtown - Conference Centre to be its new home
- Guyana denies plans to shutter mines
- CL Financial resignations change nothing - chairman - Carballo replaced; recruitment on for CEO
- Cable & Wireless finalises demerger - Caribbean now under C&W Communications division
- NCB bracing for JDX losses - Bank to raise fees, cut costs to maintain profits
- Toyota recall a US$1b fix - Too late to prevent backlash, but brand remains popular, poll finds
- Barbados to propose wage freeze
- IDB considers additional Haiti debt relief
- Trinidad floats 6.5 per cent bond
- Archer Daniels Midland profit slips 2%
- Shell to enter Brazilian ethanol market - Signs US$12b deal with Cosan
Bolt headlines super clash - Jamaica speedster set for June 12 100m showdown with Powell, Gay
Triple World and Olympic champion, Usain Bolt, has been confirmed for the Diamond League Reebok Grand Prix in New York City on June 12, meet organisers announced yesterday. Bolt, who opens his season at the Camperdown Classic at the National Stadium on Saturday...
- Synchronised team off to Minnesota
- World Cup qualification priceless - Burrell
- It'll be a 'Magic' memorial
- Giants battle in DPL
- UDC shuts out Milo Western Relays
- Shocker! - Jamaica skipper says team surprised by Powell's decision to quit
EDITORIAL - Responding to police homicides
Mr Owen Ellington already confronts a large platter of difficult issues, which will only be heaped upon, once his salary concerns are resolved and he is officially confirmed as commissioner of police.Among the matters he has to attend to is the one...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Jamaica has developed a culture of violence
The Editor, Sir: YESTERDAY'S GLEANER brought home so vividly the impact of gun violence in Jamaica when the newspaper displayed a photograph of Marvalyn Lawrence, grieving over the murder of her son, Omar Barrett.
- Don't write Buju off just yet!
- Get serious about crime
- Give the Jamaican diaspora a vote
- Let Air Jamaica survive on its own
Dennis Brown birthday celebrations start Reggae Month
Dennis Brown's former touring unit, Lloyd Parkes and We The People band, was on the stand. The emcee who introduced him numerous times, Tommy Cowan, was at the microphone. Brown's former home, 'Big Yard', was steps away from where the stage was set up at the intersection of Orange...
- Project Artiste interns ready for the world
- High spirits at Jazz Beach J'Ouvert
- Talent galore - as high-profile 2010 Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival climaxed
- Something extra
Contraceptive choices for men
Every year, during the last two weeks of January, there is a sharp increase in the number of women who present to pharmacies requesting pregnancy-test kits, presumably due to high rates of unprotected...
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VENEZUELA - Alleged major drug traffickers deported to US
Venezuela (AP):Venezuela deported alleged major drug traffickers to the United States yesterday, the country's top security official said.Suspected Colombian drug kingpin Salomon Camacho Mora, French...
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