Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Wednesday | June 24, 2009
Sugar deal - Gov't approves divestment of two Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) factories
Government has reached a deal for the sale of the Trelawny and St Thomas sugar companies, as a first step in divesting the country's assets in the sector. Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton made the announcement in Parliament... Read More...
H1N1 spreading locally - Spencer - Health minister says brace for more cases
Health Minister Rudyard Spencer has revealed that the influenza A (H1N1) virus is now being transmitted locally, following this past weekend's confirmation of four more cases in the island. On Monday, the health ministry said it could not confirm... Read More...
Principal holds fund-raiser to aid in students' graduation
It was hard to tell who was in charge at the Bloomfield All-Age School in Portland as principal Evette Kirkland was hard at work in the canteen rolling dough to make roti for the school's fund-raising activities. Adorned in her white apron, a shy smile... Read More...
Petrojam to receive US$22 million for pier damage
The insurers of the 42-tonne ship M/T Great News, which damaged the off-loading dock at the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica's (Petrojam) Marcus Garvey Drive facility in Kingston on June 1, have given an undertaking to pay US$22 million ... Read More...
Pickersgill defends PNP's 'Progressive Agenda'
Nine months after People's National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller conceptualised a platform dubbed the 'Progressive Agenda', party insiders are complaining that her vision's gestation period appears to be far from over... , Read More...
Decision today on fate of Kern trial
Former junior minister Kern Spencer will know today if his application will be granted for his fraud trial to be put off until his appeal against a Constitutional Court ruling has been heard and determined. The trial was to start on Monday... Read More...
Opposition calls for computer-tax rollback
Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday scoffed at a repeated request from the People's National Party (PNP) to roll back the 16.5 per cent general consumption tax imposed on computers and computer parts. The Government had imposed the tax in April... Read More...
Success adds up for 12-y-o math whiz
Among the parish winners in the DPH National Primary Schools' Competition, there were only a few males. However, one stood out in both stature and performance. Akiel Whyte, a 12-year-old of Grange Hill Primary in Westmoreland, was named the top student... Read More...
'YEP', students are interested
Approximately 40 persons from a group of students, school leavers and adults turned out for the orientation session of the Young Entrepreneurs Programme (YEP) held at the old Port Antonio Marina on Monday. The session was hosted by Heather Wright,... Read More...
Family searches for missing teen
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, WESTMORELAND: The family of Oshane Thompson, 18, known also as Shane, is seeking the help of the public and his friends to assist them and the police in finding the teen, who has been missing for three... Read More...
Jamaica Celebrates - Building Our Nation, Our Family, Our Home
Blades' Musson - a post-independence pioneer - The sell-out from a Barbadian company and its transformation to a wholly Jamaican enterprise started in 1962 and was completed by the end of the 1960s.... Read More...
New thrust of IMF seen as better fit for Jamaica
A group of Jamaican intellectuals, led by political scientist Richard Crawford, is contending that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a better option for the country than it was in the past because of its adoption of softer lending... Read More...
Grant calls for unity in developing agri sector
WESTERN BUREAU: President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant, is calling for a united approach, free of bipartisanship, to improve the agriculture sector and improve the lives of farmers."I think... Read More...
