British backing! - Princess Anne tours Jones Twn and Rema
PRINCESS ANNE is no snoot! Neither does she lack courage. No sir! The British royal, who is currently in the island on an official three day visit, spent the day yesterday slumming it with the folk of violence-torn Jones Town and Wilton...
Jamaicans welcome foreign cops
JAMAICANS HAVE thrown their support behind government's decision to bring foreign police to assist the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) in its crime-fighting efforts. A Gleaner-commissioned Don Anderson poll, conducted earlier this month, indicated...
Gleaner archives on the world wide web
AS OF tomorrow Monday, February 28, the vast archives of The Gleaner, one of the oldest and most respected newspapers in the western hemisphere, will be available on the world wide web.
Two dons in the dance!
BIZARRE MELODRAMAS occur in Jamaican politics from time to time, as in any country. But last Sunday's events at the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) conference rose to new heights of the absurd, even for us. The former leader of the JLP swept...
A century of memories
WHEN SHE was born at the turn of the century, crinoline was still in style, electricity was unheard of and the first world war had not yet started. One hundred years ago, Sitira Lynch was born in Warsop, a tiny district, tucked in a corner of...
Don't play with Jamaica's well-being
WHEN JAMAICA gained Universal Adult Suffrage with the granting of a new constitution on October 27, 1944, it was the dawn of a refulgent era for every patriotic Jamaican.
Lecturer makes appeals to UK Privy Council
A TEACHER who failed in his bid in the Court of Appeal to be reinstated in his job as a lecturer at the Montego Bay Community College is seeking leave to take the matter to the United Kingdom Privy Council.
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