Unreported crime a problem - MacMillan
Newly-appointed Opposition Senator Colonel Trevor MacMillan has expressed concerns about the reduction in the crime rate, claiming that unreported crime has become a major problem.
United Nations choses new secretary-general
The United Nations General Assembly approved South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon yesterday as the next U.N. secretary-general, a post he will assume on January 1.
Rapist gets 25 years
One of the 10 men who abducted a woman while she was walking on Oxford Road, Kingston 5, at night, and then took her miles away to Grants Pen, Kingston 8 where they all raped her, has been jailed for 25 years.
(LEAD) SINGLE PARENTS' SUCCESS - Students outline achievements in one-parent households
THE OVER 30 students who gathered at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel yesterday may have been the focus of the Governor-General's youth consultative breakfast, but it was their inspirational stories of single-parent resilience that moved a captivated audience.
Jamaican Government to answer Trafigura charge
Government will break its silence on the Trafigura Beheer saga on Tuesday in Parliament, when the Opposition's no-confidence motion against the Portia Simpson Miller administration will be debated.
EAC gets green light to table campaign report
The Senate yesterday passed a motion that will allow the Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC), to table a report in Parliament on party funding and election campaign financing, within three months.
Money vault disappears without trace
The disappearance of a vault with over $8 million in cash and cheques, and at least 19 passports, from the construction office of Pihls, in Port Maria, St. Mary, has left the police baffled.
Teachers' college curricula to focus on Jamaica's biodiversity
Nine teachers' colleges across Jamaica will participate in the second phase of a project to infuse topics on the country's biodiversity in their teaching curricula.
Welsh snubbed official ID parade
Police witnesses testified Thursday that 59-year-old People's National Party activist Milton 'Tony' Welsh, who is charged with the murder of 22-year-old Damion Hussey, of Golden Spring, St. Andrew, had refused to to go on an identification parade.
Correction & Clarification
In a story on Page A1 of yesterday's Gleaner, we incorrectly stated that Delroy Fong, who finished fifth in the St. Catherine Parish Final of the Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee competition, attended Spanish Town Primary School.
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