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Super blue blood moon awes and wows

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP):The moon put on a rare cosmic show yesterday: a red blue moon, super big and super bright.It's the first time in 35 years a blue moon has synced up with a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse, or blood moon because of its...

UN reviews 206 companies over links to Israeli settlements

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

GENEVA (AP) The U.N. human rights office said yesterday that 206 companies mostly Israeli and American are facing a review of their business practices involving Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.In a long-...

Obesity can cause sleep apnea - expert

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The Heart Foundation of Jamaica is encouraging persons to be aware of the connection between overweight/obesity and sleep apnea, which can affect your health.Consultant cardiologist at the foundation, Dr Marilyn Lawrence-Wright, said that...

Earth Today | National report on local adaptation, mitigation actions nears completion

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

THE THIRD national report detailing Jamaica's progress with its climate change readiness is nearing completion.UnaMay Gordon, head of the Climate Change Division (CCD), told The Gleaner this week that the finalisation of that report - a requirement...

Probation aftercare services carries out intervention in Portland Cottage

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

When Inez Williams' oldest son got into trouble with the law, it was his probation officer who helped him get his life back on track.She shared that the officer advised him to seek training at the HEART Trust/NTA in May Pen, Clarendon."He went, and...

Hubert Lawrence | Looking back to look forward

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

We're not too keen on historic sporting anniversaries. As evidence, I submit the 20th anniversary of the 1996 Olympic gold medal performance by Deon Hemmings. Though she became the first Jamaican woman to win at the Olympics, the landmark passed...

FID to get independent status

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke/Gleaner Writer

The Financial Investigative Division (FID) is to be made into an independent government agency to strengthen its capacity to effectively carry out its mandate and to afford it greater autonomy, the Finance and Planning Minister Audley Shaw has said....

Editorial | Scapegoating INDECOM is not the answer

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

It is becoming a bit tired now. Prime Minister Holness has to realise his reprisal of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, thrusting wildly at windmills, suggests that he does not understand that the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM)...

Soca-singing cab driver hopes to pursue music

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small/Gleaner Writer

Based in the Manor Park area, 53-years-old taxi driver Kenneth George Harris has decided to follow his once latent dream of becoming a recording artiste. With the carnival season around the corner, the career driver hopes to make a memorable debut...

Editorial | Mike Henry off the rails

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Jamaicans have grown to humour Mike Henry, the minister of transport, for his effusive optimism about the ramshackle railway service and its prospects for catapulting industry in the 21st century. But the joke wears off when taxpayers see their hard...

Everglades still owes Government millions! Parties trying to settle lease dispute

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue/ Senior Gleaner Writer

Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) was yes-terday told that the Government was still owed millions of dollars from Everglades Farm Limited for the lease of Hampden Sugar Factory, including more than 7,000...

Brian Sykes pokes fun at himself as he takes over as chief justice

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Gleaner Writer

Justice Brian Sykes yesterday made fun of himself minutes after it was revealed that he would succeed Chief Justice Zaila McCalla as head of the country's judiciary."I hope her successor will need to display the same tact and the same civility as...

Clifford Blake begins acting police commissioner role today

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

George Quallo officially vacated the post of Police Commissioner yesterday after spending roughly nine months on the job, clearing the way for Deputy Commissioner of Police Clifford Blake to act in the top-cop spot as of today until further notice.A...

12-year-old murder case begins with testimony about obeah

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett/ Senior Gleaner Writer

A St Thomas woman yesterday recounted how she introduced Michael McLean, the man accused of hacking six members of two families to death in 2006, to a "spiritual leader" after he complained that he became ill after eating a meal of steamed fish...

Witness says accused killer collected knife, chopper and shovel day of killing

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Gleaner Writer

A woman has testified that on the day six members of two families were found hacked to death in St Thomas, the man accused of the killing went to his home and collected a machete, a knife, a chopper, and a shovel.She was giving evidence in the...

Hot Spurs, Hummingbirds in Berger Elite showdown

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

This season's hot team, Manchester Spurs, and Kingston Hummingbirds will this evening start shooting for the title in game one of the best-of-three finals series of Netball Jamaica's Berger Elite League, at the National Arena at 7:30 p.m.Both...

No sweat for Commander Two

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

CLASSIC hopeful COMMANDER TWO yesterday easily dispatched non-winners of two, dictating the pace down the backstretch before peeling off at the home turn for a four-length win at 1500 metres.The bay gelding was well handled by non-claiming...

We have no eyewitness - say prosecutors in Michael McLean murder trial

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Prosecutors in the murder trial of a St Thomas man accused of killing six members of two families, including four children, yesterday admitted that they had no eyewitness account of the incident.However, lead prosecutor Paula Llewellyn indicated, in...

Portmore's Binns off the mark

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Michael Binns, playing in a unusual left-back role, scored his first goal of the Red Stripe Premier League season to give league leaders Portmore United a hard-fought 2-1 win over hosts Tivoli Gardens and stretch the St Catherine club's lead at the...

Regular heroes - Even children gave their mite to Walker's Place of Safety

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AMSyranno Baines/Gleaner Writer

There was no handing over of mock cheques, let alone media, on hand for publicity.However, the contributions made by many ordinary Jamaicans in the aftermath of the inferno that swallowed the Walker's Place of Safety is just as significant as the big...

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