Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Friday | June 12, 2009
What a spectacle! - Junior Jackson remembers the 1962 CAC Games
It was the ninth Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games and Jamaica, fresh from having gained independence just nine days earlier, hosted the athletics section of the games at the National Stadium, August 15 to 28, 1962. A total of 1,559 athletes representing... Read More...
New Wolmer's boy thanks his parents
Bryan Millwood of Windward Road Primary and Junior High School in Kingston has a mother who constantly drilled a popular quote into his head. The quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow states, "heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden ... Read More...
Island Smiles to disarm cancer woes at Relay for Life
As the fight for cancer continues, orthodontist Dr Jeffrey Meeks and his Island Smiles team will be making laps around the Police Officer's Club track at the eighth annual Relay for Life. Hosted by the Cancer Society of Jamaica, the relay promises ... Read More...
Medical Association lauds three of its own
The Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) has bestowed top honours on three of Jamaica's most outstanding medical practitioners. They are Dr Brendan Dunn, consultant anaesthetist; Dr Archibald McDonald, professor of surgery and emergency medicine... Read More...
Jarrett upbeat about economic prospects
Earl Jarrett, general manager of the Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS), is asserting that despite the consistently high crime rate in Jamaica, the trend will fall because of the social initiatives and policy changes being implemented... Read More...
Scrap Metal Regulations 2007 to be amended
The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved amendments to the Trade Act, increasing the fines for persons who continue to break the scrap metal regulations. Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Karl Samuda, who piloted the Bill, noted that... Read More...
Jamaica's most wanted captured in US
One of the country's most-wanted men is now in custody in the United States after being arrested in Miami. St James gangster Omar Oneil Lewis, better known as 'King Evil', was held by members of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)... Read More...
Swine flu cases rise to 11
As the World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday raised the pandemic alert for the influenza A (H1N1) virus to Phase Six - the highest in that category - the Ministry of Health has identified one more case of the virus. Read More...
Marjorie Campbell-Rowan - Remembering her legacy
St Andrew's Parish Church was filled last Thursday with the mourning family and friends of Marjorie Campbell-Rowan, who passed away on May 11 in Canada. Although all present were grieved at her passing... Read More...
Eulalee Dann - Cheerful, warm and giving mother
Eulalie Albertha Dann, affectionately called 'Birdie', of Feather Bed Lane, St Catherine, and Toronto, Canada, was a very warm and giving mother. She was not one to only look out for her children... Read More...
