Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Monday | December 29, 2008
KPH jumper bedridden - but in good spirits
In late May, Wayne 'Selassie' Saunders, egged on by onlookers, jumped from a ledge at Kingston Public Hospital. On June 9, The Gleaner published my commentary on the incident.
In the lead paragraph I stated: "When I heard it on the midday news two Fridays ago, I was a bit shaken up....
Reverend Miller calls for a national ceasefire in January
Director of the National Transformation Programme (NTP) Reverend Merrick 'Al' Miller is calling for a national ceasefire in which there would be no murders anywhere in Jamaica for the month of January. With the New Year just days away, Miller is urging all Jamaicans...
Natural History Division gets new board members
Cabinet this week approved the appointment of new members to the board of the Natural History Division, for three years, effective December 15. They are: Professor Ronald Young, chairman; Marigold Harding, deputy chairperson; Tracey Cammock, director of the Natural History...
Former mayor of Black River missed
The heavy showers that lashed the island on November 8 were not enough to prevent scores of mourners from paying their last respects to Bolivar Hendricks, former mayor of Black River and councillor for the Malvern division in the 1960s...
Bybrook residents remember 'Brother B'
Nalvin F. Sutherland, former assistant commissioner of lands was affectionately called 'Suddie', 'B', 'Brother B', 'Frank', 'NF', 'Daddy Frank' and lived a blessed and fulfilled life. He was born on June 5, 1921 in Bybrook, Portland...
'Sister Lilly' leaves pleasant memories
It was not an ordinary thanksgiving service that was held at the Sanguinetti New Testament Church of God, on November 22, to show last respects to late post mistress and hard-working churchwoman Lillimae Agatha Tomlinson, of Chudleigh and Sanguinetti in Manchester...
Man goes unnoticed for days in US family's attic
WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania (AP):A family did not realise they had an unexpected Christmas guest until a man who had been in their attic for days emerged wearing their clothes, police said.Stanley Carter surrendered Friday after police took a dog...
