Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Tuesday | February 9, 2010
Olint hopes dim - Investors meet, anger stirred, still no word on money
Members of alternative investment scheme Olint were left fuming and with little hope yesterday as they emerged from a meeting aimed at updating them on efforts to recover their money. "I just can't be confident. It (Olint's collapse) has thrown our lives in shambles," declared Horace Brown... Read More...
Riot at Horizon
Approximately 100 policemen rushed to the Horizon Remand Centre on Spanish Town Road in St Andrew yesterday, after a prison riot broke out during the mid-afternoon hours. National Security Minister Senator Dwight... Read More...
Reliving a Valentine's tragedy - Old Harbour residents recall deadly 1999 accident
Sunday, February 14 - Valentine's Day - will mark the 11th year since eight young people drowned at sea and boat captain, Fred Hunter, says families still blame him for the clubbites' deaths. In 1999, 13 Gold Star youth club (now changed to Narine Avenue youth club) members.... Read More...
PM fulfils cancer patient's last wish
Facing his own mortality, 19-year-old cancer patient Gary Buchanan got a lift yesterday when his desire to meet his nation's leader was fulfilled. Yesterday, in a meeting organised by The STAR, Prime Minister Bruce Golding paid the young man a visit... Read More...
Nettleford cremated, official funeral confirmed
Professor Rex Nettleford's body has been cremated in the United States and the ashes are to be transported to Jamaica for an official funeral next Tuesday. Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, (UWI), Professor E. Nigel Harris... Read More...
Judge wary of lengthy Kern trial
As the trial of Kern Spencer limped into another week, presiding magistrate Judith Pusey yesterday declared she had no desire to have the matter labour before her."I don't want to grow old trying this case," Pusey... Read More...
Islandwide weapons audit ordered by Nelson
WESTERN BUREAU: As part of a wider initiative to determine how many legal guns are in the hands of Jamaicans - police, licensed firearm holders and gun dealers - National Security Minister Senator Dwight Nelson has ordered an islandwide audit."... Read More...
