Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Sunday | August 2, 2009
Malaria breeds money - $1B for on-call payments to health workers; Health ministry launches investigation
he Ministry of Health will be launching an investigation into allegations of wanton abuse and mismanagement of an on-call payment facility, specially approved by the finance ministry to compensate public-health nurses and other health workers for the extra work they were expected to perform during the malaria outbreak in 2006. Read More...
From a life of sin … Sisters in Christ
The crack cocaine and marijuana profits were sweet … and scamming unsuspecting retirees was even sweeter! Until they found out there was no reward like peace with God. Read More...
Rescue in the streets
A man with only six fingers; another with visible scars left by sulphuric acid; others living with years of filth, abuse and drug use made up Sold Out Ministries Street Church last Sunday afternoon. Read More...
Britain to track slave trade money
THE BRITISH government has earmarked over £600,000 for the University College, London (UCL), to carry out an in-depth study to measure how monies accrued from the slave trade were spent. Read More...
From pearl to john-crow beads
Pastor Derek Bignal, president of the West Indies Union of Seventh-day Adventists, has decried the immorality that is plaguing the Jamaican society. Read More...
Freedom feeding frenzy -
Mad rush for money with emancipation fallout
The year 2007, bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade, saw an unprecedented explosion of activities in Britain focused on the slave trade and slavery, abolition and emancipation. Prior to 2007, the collective memory in the United Kingdom (UK) of the slave trade and slavery was of Britain's pride in having led the world, or so it was thought, in abolition and emancipation Read More...
I will renounce! Hay-Webster to give up US citizenship
South Central St Catherine Member of Parliament (MP) Sharon Hay-Webster has decided to give up the land of her birth - the United States of America (USA). Read More...
Who will speak for the people of NW Clarendon?
North West Clarendon has been pregnant with subdued anxiety since Supreme Court Judge Lloyd Hibbert's ruling effectively took away the seat from Michael Stern last week. Read More...
