Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Thursday | February 26, 2009
Kingston pier tragedy - One killed, two shot and injured at boat party - Denham Town residents irate over 'High Roller's' death
IT WAS billed as a late-night party at Kingston Harbour, but the boat never left the dock, as a barrage of bullets brought the session to its premature end. When the gunfire ended, one man lay dead, just a few metres from the boat, two were nursing gunshot wounds... Read More...
Cop has lucky escape
A female cop is lucky to be alive after the private motor car she drove was transformed into a ball of twisted metal, following a collision with a garbage truck on Marcus Garvey Drive in St Andrew. Eye witnesses say the officer's car was sent tumbling... Read More...
New Governor General of Jamaica to be sworn in today
THE FORMER leader of the West Indies Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Dr Patrick Allen, will today replace Professor Sir Kenneth Hall as governor general of Jamaica.Allen will be sworn in as the country's sixth proxy head of state... Read More...
More on GG's plate than you might think
The governor general's functions are both statutory and ceremonial, many of which lie in the Constitution. Exercises the executive authority on behalf of Her Majesty. Appoints as prime minister the member of the House of Representatives whom he believes is best ... Read More...
What Adventists really believe
Put an Adventist in a room and immediately the jokes start.There are snickers that they don't eat pork, just the gravy, and that it's crazy that they go 24 hours on the Sabbath without watching HBO or Cinemax? And don't forget the usual jabs about whether Adventists should.... Read More...
Obama's speech lauded, opposition's chided
NEW YORK (AP): Insane! Childish! Disaster!And those were some of the kinder comments from political pundits about Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, the first Indian-American governor, and his response to President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on Tuesday night... Read More...
Crime slows NWC operations
The National Water Commission (NWC) says vandalism, theft and arson in some parishes continue to hamper the operations of the company.In a release on Tuesday, the utility company said business at two separate NWC waste-water facilities in St Catherine... Read More...
Thursdaytalk - Hottest topics on the cocktail circuit
Chaos at function 1. Some are outraged about what happened at the function out west last week. The outrage stems from the chaos that was facilitated by the fact that those who should have been busy assisting with protocol... Read More...
