Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Sunday | June 21, 2009
Less than convincing united front from PNP
THE LEADERSHIP of the People's National Party (PNP) is putting on a public display of unity, despite loud whispers from within its ranks that all is not well. Read More...
Going the extra mile - Remedial programmes for failing students at Cambridge High
AS THE head of a non-traditional high school in St James, Rhudal McFarlane understands the challenges of nurturing low-performing students at Cambridge High School. Read More...
Care for the elderly programme needs men
THE DEPARTMENT of Community Health and Psychiatry at the University of the West Indies, Mona, which trains caregivers to deal with the elderly, is calling for more males to be volunteers in the programme. Read More...
Fall from grace
THE ARREST of New York-based evangelist, the Reverend Dr Paul Lewis, has stunned the church community even as he remains behind bars at the Savanna-la-Mar police lock-up, in Westmoreland, facing charges of carnal abuse and indecent assault. Read More...
How Stanford dodged US regulators
In June 2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made a secret plea to Antigua's top banking regulator, Leroy King: help investigate whether Stanford International Bank, based in the Caribbean money haven, was engaged in a huge fraud of its investors. But unknown to the agency, someone else had got to him first. Read More...
Vaz urges journalists to be fair, objective
MINISTER WITH with responsibility for Information and Telecommunications, Daryl Vaz, has urged journalists to remain cognizant of their responsibility to be fair and objective in exercising their duties. Read More...
Board Villa residents plead for help
ALMOST TWO weeks after fire razed nine houses at 31 Slipe Road, better known as 'Board Villa' in west Kingston, the victims have been left on their own with little or no help from the authorities. Battered and bruised, the more than 40 victims are pleading for help. Read More...
Bless you! All Jamaica's confirmed H1N1 cases linked to travel to US
NEW MEANING has been injected into the adage which says 'If America sneezes, Jamaica catches a cold', as the health ministry announced on Friday that all of the island's confirmed cases of Influenza A (H1N1) are linked to travel to New York and Florida. Read More...
Cop injured in shooting, remains in hospital
A police constable assigned to the Shady Grove Police Station in St Catherine North remains in hospital in serious condition today after he was shot by gunmen Friday night. Read More...
