Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Friday | July 31, 2009
Rust in peace - Ewarton businesses suffer from bauxite fallout
These are days residents of Ewarton wished would never come.With the absence of bauxite and, more important, persons employed in the bauxite industry, businesses have slowed to a crawl. The once well-patronised business establishments are not doing anywhere... Read More...
'Stop meddling' - Montague warns Portmore councillors to stay out of enforcement matters
Minister with responsibility for local government, Robert Montague, is demanding that councillors at the Portmore Municipal Council cease influencing enforcement officers as they carry out their duties. Montague handed down the directive after complaints ... Read More...
Wanted ex-cop among 76 deported
Immediately after he stepped off the charter flight, which arrived with 76 deportees from the United States, Robert O'Riley Cole, a former police constable, was handcuffed by two sergeants from the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI)... Read More...
Tailor real estate strategies for clients' needs - Bartlett
WESTERN BUREAU: For real estate sales to survive the current financial recession, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has advised realtors to change their marketing strategies and tailor them to suit their clients' needs. "There is need for a different... Read More...
Alpart retirees lose health-care benefits
Golden agers who spent their lives toiling in the bauxite industry have been dealt another severe blow as the global economic meltdown continues to unleash its effects on the alumina sector. Two hundred and fifty retirees who received health-care... Read More...
Class Acts: Sts Peter and Paul Preparatory
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...
Armadale smoke had unusual smell - supervisor
Hortense Higgins, the supervisor who was working for the second consecutive shift on May 22, said yesterday that an unusual smell was given off by the smoke that rose from the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre on the deadly fire that left seven dead... Read More...
Coping without Windalco - Bauxite family finds other ways to survive after layoff
Even as the harsh reality of the slowdown in bauxite production comes home to families, Jacqueline Smith, a resident of Charlemont in St Catherine, is not giving up. Smith started rearing goats in her backyard shortly before her common-law husband... Read More...
New bill gives strata owners more rights
AFTER YEARS of persistent appeals from owners of strata properties for changes to the Strata Titles Act, parliamentarians will in September continue debate on amendments to the legislation with a view to passing the bill into law. Delinquent owners... Read More...
