Jamaica Gleaner News- Lead Stories - Sunday

14 killed in truck crash - Major catastrophe, says PM

FOURTEEN BODIES, including that of a 10-year-old boy, were recovered from a precipice at Dam Bridge in the Rio Grande Valley of Portland, Friday, after a truck transporting higglers to market in Kingston overturned.

Worst traffic crash in 30 yrs

Road safety officials say Friday night's road tragedy in the Rio Grande Valley in Portland is the country's worst traffic crash in 30 years. The road safety unit in the Ministry of Transport and Works has pointed to 23 deaths as being the highest recorded number of fatalities from a single road tragedy, which occurred back in the 1970s.

Millbank mourns

TEARS, GRIEF and gloom have placed a stranglehold on Millbank, bringing the rustic and close-knit community in the Rio Grande Valley of Portland to its knees. Eight people, including a 10-year-old boy, climbed into a market truck just after 7 p.m. Friday and headed for Kingston where they would sell their produce...

Christmas in the inner city

There are two things that 11-year-old Nehrue Frame wants for Christmas. One is a bicycle. He has wanted a bicycle since he first learnt to ride at age nine and it seems he already has useful intentions for it.

'Santa Maria' - Caring worker adopts National Children's Home

LEROY ANDERSON, director of the National Children's Home, says Maria Pickering-Vincent of The Gleaner's Information Systems Department is the Santa who appears with goodies for the children not once, but at least three times a year.

Tank-Weld to boost cement supply

Tank-Weld Metals has sealed a 10-year agreement with an international company to start supplying cement to the Jamaican market as early as February next year.

NCU choir shines in the US

The rich talent resource of the Seventh-day Adventist-owned and operated Northern Caribbean University (NCU) was on display on the weekend of Friday, December 12, to Saturday, December 13.

Magnificence of sanctuaries

In this Yuletide season, the accent is on worship. Gleaner photo editor, Norman Grindley captures the beauty of some of the places Jamaicans will go to worship, this Christmas.