Jamaica Gleaner - News - Wednesday

Physically challenged boy gets help to realise dream

MAY PEN, Clarendon: ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD DAVID Saunders will not forget Christmas 2011.He became a police for a day at May Pen Police Station and wore a pair of shoes for the first time in his life....

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Youth council chairman says JLP, PNP manifestos lacking

THE NATIONAL Youth Council of Jamaica (NYCJ) has expressed its disappointment with the plans proposed in the manifestos of the People's National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).According to a release from Ryan Small, chairman of the NYCJ,...

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Lady Allen gives to St Ann correctional centre

SEVERAL ITEMS, including 145 sheets, 50 blankets, 15 window curtains, hardcover books, pens, pencils, game sets and footballs were handed over to the Hill Top Juvenile Correctional Centre for boys, in St Ann, by Lady Allen....

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'Let us be wise'

HELLO MI neighbour! Hope you had a peaceful Christmas and enabled others to do likewise. If the season found you exchanging gifts based on materialism only, you would not have experienced real peace.....

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PNP candidate on a quest for growth in Western Portland

BUFF BAY, Portland: THE PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) candidate for Western Portland, Rohan Quest, said his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) opponent Daryl Vaz is in for the shock of his life come Thursday night....

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Legal Aid Council a decade of advocacy

For years, the Legal Aid Council has been defending the rights of persons of modest means in crime-related matters, as it carries out its mandate of administering legal aid across Jamaica, ensuring that no citizen is denied access to justice...

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Central Manchester - One to watch

The People's National Party's (PNP) Peter Bunting and Danville Walker of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are both expressing confidence that they will claim the 'hot seat' of Central Manchester when the votes are counted...

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'OUR gets revised JPS back-billing policy'

THE OFFICE of Utilities Regulation (OUR) said last Friday that it has received the revised back-billing policy from the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) for its review and approval.The requirement to submit a revised back-billing policy...