Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Friday | September 4, 2009
To mother is no bother - Woman nurtures 40 kids and counting
Unis McKenzie has helped raise more than 40 children and is willing to take in more. No kidding. McKenzie, 64, is considered a community mother in her hometown of Cheesefield, St Catherine. When a Gleaner news team visited her home last Friday... Read More...
St Ann Bauxite increases production target
There is good news for Jamaica's bauxite industry as production at the St Ann Bauxite Company in Discovery Bay, St Ann, is to be increased by some 25 per cent, beginning within the next three months.The announcement was made Tuesday ... Read More...
DevastatedTrelawny family mourns retired jockey's death
FALMOUTH, Trelawny: The joy of passing seven Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate subjects and looking ahead to sixth form has been dashed for 16-year-old Daniel Sinclair, whose father was hit off a bicycle near Rock in Falmouth, Trelawny... Read More...
'Poor can take no more'
Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller has cautioned the Government against accepting a recommendation from the Jamaica Urban Transit Company to increase bus fares. "The proposed increases will affect the elderly, persons with disabilities and children... Read More...
Absolute rubbish! - Street sweepers angered by non-payment of wages
With less than three days before the start of the new academic year, some street sweepers in the Corporate Area have not bought as much as a pencil for their children. For nearly six weeks they have not been paid their due wages ... Read More...
Class Acts: Glowwell Prep School
Bigger isn't always better. This was definitely the case for the 30 graduates of Glowwell Preparatory when they celebrated their school-leaving exercise at the Faith Temple New Testament Church of God in Bayside... Read More...
Two years, much hardship, and the road to recovery
The story of a country in crisisIn the two years since the Bruce Golding-led Jamaica Labour Party took the reins of government, Jamaica's economic fundamentals have gone awry.The signal decline in the economic fortunes of the broad majority ... Read More...
Armadale Enquiry - Other facilities were worse - Children's Advocate
There were not enough resources to pay attention to the problem of overcrowding at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre - so says Children's Advocate Mary Clarke.
"We focus on the areas with the greater problems," said Clarke, who resumed her testimony .... Read More...
