Jamaica Gleaner News- News - Wednesday

Internationally-acclaimed preacher Bishop T.D. Jakes, 51, will be the main speaker tonight at 'The Way Forward' conference which has been organised by Pastors In Action. This is a group of local clergy led by well-known Pentecostal/ Charismatic Renewal leaders...

Port Royal seniors get early Christmas treat

The senior citizens of Port Royal, east Kingston, received an early Christmas treat on Saturday when party promoters Mad Circle Entertainment toured the community, donating care packages of food, toiletries and Digicel prepaid credit to members of the Port Royal Golden...

AIDS policy to tackle esteem hang-ups in workplace - Chung

Jamaica's HIV/AIDS workplace policy would facilitate a productive environment for persons living with HIV/AIDS in the workplace, a top-ranking civil service spokesman has said.Robert Chung, first vice-president of the Jamaica Civil Service Association...

Another Lalah book signing

The first one was so huge, we had to do it again! Readers flocked to Sangster's Book Stores in Mall Plaza, St Andrew in staggering numbers last Saturday to have Robert Lalah sign his book, Roving with Lalah - Slices of Everyday Jamaican Life.But the...

Charles says Gov't delivering on jobs

Pearnel Charles, minister of labour and social security, said last Friday that the nearly two dozen Jamaican mechanics who have been enlisted in Canada's overseas employment programme were evidence of the Government's promise to create more jobs."..

Illinois governor charged in 'coruption crime spree'

CHICAGO (AP): Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested yesterday on charges he brazenly conspired to sell or trade the United States Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama to the highest bidder in what a federal prosecutor called ...

CARICOM urges US to lift Cuban embargo

SANTIAGO DE CUBA (CMC): CHAIRMAN OF the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Baldwin Spencer, on Monday called for an immediate end to the United States (US) economic blockade against Cuba. Spencer, who is also the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda...