Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Friday | March 27, 2009
19 years of Crime Stop and counting - Public-information requests have aided police significantly
Jamaicans have reacted favourably to Crime Stop, as figures coming from the programme suggest an overwhelming success rate since its inception on September 6, 1989 to December 31, 2008. "It has been very successful," Prudence Gentles, who has been Crime Stop coordinator... Read More...
Golding to talk with Opposition over Senate seat for diaspora
A MANIFESTO commitment of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to have the diaspora represented in the Senate is to become the subject of bipartisan discussion. Prime Minister Bruce Golding told Parliament on Tuesday that his government was seeking consensus... Read More...
Coffee board must take steps to expand - Tufton
Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of agriculture, says there are steps the Coffee Industry Board (CIB) should pursue if it is to expand and improve its production. Speaking at the launch of the CIB's new website portal at the organisation's head office on Wednesday... Read More...
House committee seeks advice from solicitor general - Concerns raised over sex definition
A PARLIAMENTARY committee, examining the green paper on national workplace policy on HIV/AIDS, is seeking guidance from the solicitor general on a controversial definition of sexual intercourse, as set out in the document... Read More...
Thwaites asks Parliament to 'fess up'
CENTRAL KINGSTON Member of Parliament (MP) Ronald Thwaites has made good on his promise to move a motion in the House, seeking to force Parliamentarians to declare whether they have pledged allegiance or obedience to a foreign power... Read More...
Murder puts rural taxi men on edge
Days after a taxi operator was shot and killed along the Thompson Pen main road in St Catherine, his colleagues who use the corridor are still concerned about their safety. The Spanish Town Police reported that residents of Thompson Pen called them about 5:50 a.m.... Read More...
Supporting the recovery JN hosts business fair
Western Bureau: Several small business operators in Montego Bay are intent on thriving despite the economic crisis, and have sought to retool themselves with training through the help of Jamaica National (JN) Small Business Loans Limited... Read More...
Division between rich and poor fuels violence - sociologist
Sociologist Hermione McKenzie said in order to break the psyche of violent crimes in Jamaica it was important that the social fibre of the country was repaired, to the extent where there was not such an enormous division... Read More...
'Ochi' Adventists provide training for residents
More than 120 persons from Ocho Rios and surrounding communities benefited from a much-needed skills-training symposium held last Wednesday. The Ocho Rios district of Seventh-day Adventist Churches, in collaboration with HEART Trust/NTA... Read More...
Boys' and Girls' Champs
Keiron Stewart - Date of birth: 21.11.89Class: OneSchool: Kingston College (KC)Events: 110m and 400m hurdlesPR: 13.49 (110mH), 50.20 (400mH)Main rivals: Stewart sees Warren Weir as a major threat in the 110mH and Wayne Extol ... Read More...
