Jamaica Labour Party annual conference tomorrow
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will stage its 64th annual conference at the National Arena tomorrow, its first major event following the party's victory in the September 3 general election. The conference is being held a day before nomination day for the local government election, which is slated for December 5.
Still in limbo - CDA keeps woman's children indefinitely
October 19, 2007 will be a date that will always be part of Karen Elliot's life. It is the day that she lost the company of her four children. In an interview with The Gleaner, she said despite her getting a few days work, which enables her to visit her children who have been taken by the Child Development Agency she is still an empty woman.
Across the Nation
The Salvation Army in western Jamaica officially launched its Annual Christmas Kettle in the heart of Montego Bay, Sam Sharpe Square, yesterday.Deputy Mayor, Cecil Davis, representative from the Jamaica Police Co-op Credit Union, Corporal Carlton Sterling, and president of the Lay Magistrates' Association of St. James, Joseph Williams, all made the first contributions to the kettle.
Big-hearted docs treat children for free
Twenty-four children suffering from life-threatening heart disease were treated free of cost by a team of specialists from the United Kingdom over the past week.
UN votes for death penalty moratorium
A United Nations committee voted on Thursday in favour of a resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty in a key step toward the passing of the non-binding motion by the world body.
Mind & Spirit - A theologian does not a leader make
The following is an edited excerpt of a paper presented by the Rev. Gerald Seale, general secretary of the Evangelical Association of the Caribbean, at the Congress of Evangelicals in the Caribbean, held October 22-25, 2007, in Tunapuna, Trinidad.
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