Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Friday | July 24, 2009
Positive tests - Anti-doping body probes drug claims against Jamaican athletes
Dr Patrece Charles-Freeman, executive director at Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), said last night that an investigation had been launched into reports that at least two Jamaican athletes have tested positive for a banned substance... Read More...
Cabinet backs new agri fund to boost local production
Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has announced that Cabinet has approved the establishment of an agriculture development fund as the Government makes yet another attempt to boost local production and discourage importation... Read More...
Petrojam bagging fuel tax
Jamaica's oil refinery, the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (Petrojam), has failed to pay over nearly $700 million in fuel tax and customs user fees to the Inland Revenue Department, a forensic audit of the company has found... Read More...
United for the children
Young members of the First United Pentecostal Church in Harmony Hall, St Mary, have been taking time out of their summer break to make a difference in the lives of the children of the community."In these days, when crime is on the increase... Read More...
Class Acts: Flankers Primary & Junior High
Aldith Scott of Flankers Primary and Junior High, and Sanja Watson of Crawford Primary School, whose picture appeared in yesterday's Gleaner, are the lucky winners of a Sangster's Book Stores gift certificate.... Read More...
Cash Plus, affiliates wound up
Investment Scheme Cash Plus Ltd and six of its affiliated companies were wound up yesterday, following a petition filed in the Supreme Court by attorney-at-law Hugh Wildman, the trustee in bankruptcy. The other companies which were wound up are Cash Plus... Read More...
Janice Allen case heads to court again
The Janice Allen case is heading to the Judicial Review Court for the second time in four years.Millicent Forbes, mother of 13-year-old Janice Allen, has taken the director of public prosecutions (DPP) to court, challenging her ruling ... Read More...
Thwaites: Real unity needed to change Jamaica
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Ronald Thwaites has called for a government of national unity in Jamaica, for at least the next decade, to take on the serious challenges facing the country at this time. Making his contribution... Read More...
Tufton's mother passes
Ruby Blake, the mother of Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, died yesterday at the age of 64.Blake, who was admitted to the Tony Thwaites Wing of the University Hospital of the West Indies, died following complications from an illness.... Read More...
Fruit-tree programme stunted by plant shortage
A shortage of tree suckers has effectively slowed the Government's fruit-tree programme, a lynchpin of the administration's food-security strategy. Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton told The Gleaner he was aware that the programme has hit a snag... Read More...
Revised tourism figures were not on record - McNeill
Opposition spokesman on Tourism, Dr Wykeham McNeill, says Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett was disingenuous when he claimed to have previously revised the island's tourism revenue figures. "The facts are, the targets for Tourism arrivals and revenue ... Read More...
Absence of fiscal bill hinders probe's progress
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, revealed on Wednesday that the Financial Investigations Division (FID) ran into a roadblock when it sought to obtain information overseas in relation to alternative investment schemes operating... Read More...
