Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Tuesday | July 21, 2009
Get in shape! - Clean up act or I might shut you down, Montague warns Portland PC
MINISTER WITH responsibility for local government, Robert Montague, has given the Portland Parish Council 30 days to clean up its act and improve its performance and governance or face sanction. Montague, who was addressing directors of the council and parish ... Read More...
For the love of her students - St Mary principal offers free GSAT classes - Graduates step in to give helping hand
Hyacinth Norine, principal of the Robin's Bay Primary School in St Mary, has taken the initiative to decrease the level of financial stress parents undergo by designing ways to offset extra charges throughout the school year... Read More...
Amnesty report a mixed bag
Amnesty International has given the Jamaican Government a pat on the shoulder in a report in which it provides a mixed review of the island's state of public security.In the report, to be released today, the international human-rights lobby continues... Read More...
Gov't wraps up purchase of NCB property
The Government has successfully completed the purchase of the National Commercial Bank's (NCB) King Street, downtown Kingston, building at a cost of $128 million which will facilitate the creation of Justice Square.Justice Square will accommodate... Read More...
Recycling initiative to be implemented at Sumfest
SEEKING TO facilitate recycling at high-profile local public events, Carreras Ltd will sponsor receptacles to collect plastic bottles at this year's Reggae Sumfest.This latest effort comes after the successful launch of the initiative at the 2009... Read More...
Class Acts: Petersfield Primary
Send photos from your graduation ceremonies in June or July, along with detailed captions, and we will publish them. Email to editor@gleanerjm.com or drop off at 7 North Street, Kingston.... Read More...
Shaw talks IMF today
Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw will today share with the country the Government's thinking on a Cabinet submission and provide a more definitive assessment on whether Jamaica should, at this time, resume a borrowing relationship... Read More...
Cops probe steel theft at Tank-Weld
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST James police are working with their Trelawny counterparts to determine all possible links to the theft of a trailerload of steel from Tank-Weld Metals in Montego Bay on the weekend. Up to last night, investigators attached to the Montego... Read More...
Tedious jury selection for Kameka case
Jury selection began yesterday in the case of the three men charged with the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Gilbert Kameka. The empanelling lasted for the entire day but was not completed because there were not enough jurors. Read More...
