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FACED WITH a ballooning price tag, and with promised financial assistance slow in coming, the Government has decided to pull the plug on elements of its relief efforts in Haiti.
Less than 72 hours after The Gleaner first reported that financial challenges could force Jamaica to withdraw...

Tributes have been flowing in for one of Jamaica's greatest cultural icons, Professor Rex Nettleford, since news broke of his passing on Tuesday night. Nettleford excelled as an academic, cultural activist, historian and remained an unapologetic regionalist...

DESPITE THE death of its founder and creative force, Rex Nettleford, the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC) will soldier on with its annual season in July.Bridgett Spaulding, NDTC's secretary/treasurer, told The Gleaner yesterday...

CARICOM has expressed its "gravest concern" over the possibility of a ship carrying radioactive waste passing through Caribbean waters. "It has come to the attention of the Caribbean Community that a new shipment of vitrified high-level waste...

A new centre to assist students living in Constant Spring and Cassava Piece, St Andrew, has been opened at the Constant Spring Seventh-day Adventist Church.The Oasis Learning and Resource Centre, equipped with computers and other learning aids, will...

JAMAICA HAS led the Caribbean in efforts to bring aid to the survivors of earthquake-ravaged Haiti. From all accounts, the capital Port-au-Prince is a ruined city, littered with mountains of rubble entombing thousands of bodies...

DESCRIBING DROUGHT conditions in his constituency as an untenable crisis, Eastern Westmoreland Member of Parliament Luther Buchanan has called for Government to 'seed' the clouds to stimulate rainfall."The severity of the drought demands...

Scotiabank yesterday announced a new fixed-loan rate, aimed at stimulating activity and development of the small-medium enterprise (SME) sector over the next 12 months."Effective today, Scotiabank will offer on all new SME loans, a fixed rate of 16.95...

Today is being celebrated as international World Wetlands Day. The message for this year - 'Caring for Wetlands - an Answer to Climate Change' - focuses on the impact of climate change on wetlands, and the role of wetlands in reducing the effects...

A pregnant woman was among three persons shot and killed in the St Catherine South Police Division on the weekend.Dead is Natalee 'Cathy' Thompson, 25-year-old of Wellside Lane, Old Harbour, St Catherine. Reports from the Old Harbour police ...

A new champion will be crowned when the finals of the 2009-2010 Gleaner Children's Own Spelling Bee competition get under way tomorrow morning at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. Fourteen spellers who came through respective tests in their parishes will put their skills...

A 19-year-old university student was found dead yesterday in a crashed Toyota Fortuner sport utility vehicle along the Mona main road near the University of the West Indies. Patti-Ann Lothian was reported missing to the police yesterday afternoon....