Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Monday | July 13, 2009
CCtv speed traps - Surveillance cams to track road hogs
WITH MORE than 3,000 traffic fatalities since January 2001, govern-ment officials plan to get tough on traffic offenders with tech-savvy surveillance cameras.Up to July 8, 183 road users were killed in fatal collisions, just two shy of the death toll... Read More...
New junior foreign minister - Malahoo-Forte appointed senator
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Bruce Golding has appointed controversial Resident Magistrate Marlene Malahoo-Forte a senator and minister of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. Malahoo-Forte, who will be sworn in at King's House... Read More...
Murder conviction quashed
TWO OF the three family members who were convicted in October 2001 for murdering their neighbour over ackee leaves which had fallen on to their property have been freed by the United Kingdom Privy Council. The other man, Addis Jackson, had his case sent back ... Read More...
Break-ins spur alarm in Portmore
Residents in Portmore, the still-growing densely populated St Catherine community, have expressed concern about a wave of break-ins this year.Data from the statistical unit of the Jamaica Constabulary Force show 119 cases of break-ins occurred last year.... Read More...
Class acts: Iona Prep
Twenty-one students - 12 boys and nine girls - graduated from Iona Preparatory School in Tower Isle, St Mary, on June 30. They head for Munro, Knox, Westwood, St Hilda's, Ferncourt, York Castle, Ocho Rios, St Mary and Iona high ... Read More...
Flu casualties 'high-risk'
FOLLOWING the death of a second person from swine flu, Minister of Health Ruddy Spencer said hospital staff did all they could for at least one of the victims. Kareem-Jabar Nathaniel Leiba died of influenza A (H1N1 virus) at the University Hospital ... Read More...
NEWS BRIEFS
Cops still probing Rib Kage attack - The Constant Spring police said they are intensifying investigations into a confrontation at the Rib Kage restaurant in St Andrew last month, which left three relatives nursing serious injuries.... Read More...
