Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Monday | December 29, 2008
Women return $1m - Cash found handed to Portmore police
Fate sought to tempt legal secretary Dhaima Brookes when she stumbled upon $1 million in an ATM in the Portmore Mall, St Catherine, yesterday. Undeterred by any possible temptation to walk away with the find, Brookes displayed an act of goodwill, which angered many...
Former Kingston mayor dies at 88
Former mayor of Kingston Marie Atkins died yesterday afternoon.She died at her home in Cherry Gardens, St Andrew. was 88 years old. Atkins, who represented the Waterhouse division as a councillor for the People's National Party ...
Group backs parliamentary committee's environmental plan
Jamaica Environmental Advocacy Network (JEAN), environmental lobbyists, has thrown its support behind a recommendation of the select committee of parliament to close areas of ecological importance to mining.In the committee's report, published this...
Not the same without Ice
ALTHOUGH THE Christmas season was a busy time for dancehall star David Alexander Smith, also known as Ice, he could not pass on a festive tradition - Christmas Day dinner with family."When him finish eat him sey, 'Thank yuh mi sister...
Eighteen Jamaicans sent home from Canadian farm
Minister of Labour and Social Security Pearnel Charles says he will be looking into the circumstances that led to the repatriation of 18 Jamaican workers employed to a mushroom farm in Ontario, Canada, under the Temporary Foreign Workers Programme...
