Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Wednesday | September 9, 2009
Job losses soar - Up to 30,000 sent home since start of the economic crisis
As the industrial relations landscape continues to take a battering from the stormy economic climate, it is estimated that up to 30,000 Jamaicans have lost their jobs since the global crisis unleashed its effects over a year ago. Prominent players in the labour arena... Read More...
Long journey for work
Judith Fuller was one of the more than 400 people who gathered under tents, sat on perimeter walls or took shade under trees yesterday as they sought to take one of the positions advertised for security officers and supervisors within the Jamaica Ports Security Corps Limited... Read More...
PM wants credit reports - Golding pushes for law to track borrowers
The Government is to fast-track the proposed legislation to establish a credit-reporting system.The credit-reporting bill, first suggested more than 10 years ago, is now before a joint select committee of Parliament and Prime Minister Golding is anxious... Read More...
Looking for luck on the triple nine
It was outside a small, musty rum bar in Lionel Town, Clarendon, that Dexter Chung, a mechanic at a nearby sugar factory realised that September 9, 2009 was only a couple of days away. He had just listened to a lottery draw on the radio. Read More...
Rodney Chin to testify today
THE STRENGTH of the prosecution's case against Kern Spencer and Colleen Wright may hinge on the testimony of former co-accused, Rodney Chin, who is scheduled to take the stand today. The Crown will also be hoping for Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey to admit certain documents... Read More...
Armadale enquiry - Lack of officers added to list of flaws
The Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre was operating with less than its full quota of correctional officers, forcing its staff to work on double shifts, Commis-sioner of Corrections June Spence-Jarrett confirmed yesterday... Read More...
Bird excels with flying colours
Five years after scoring an impressive 91 per cent average in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), St Jago High School student Paula Bird has achieved eight subjects with six ones and two twos in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC)... Read More...
Angry cops should turn in their guns - counsellor
A PROMINENT psychologist is suggesting that police personnel struggling to deal with anger and severe stress-related problems should turn in their guns for safe keeping and urgently seek professional counselling. Dr George Leveridge, consultant psychologist... Read More...
Technology show set to be a hit in November
Intcomex Jamaica will launch a brand new technology event in November. Over the last nine years, Intcomex Jamaica has built a solid distribution infrastructure and established a comprehensive and efficient islandwide network throughout Jamaica... Read More...
PNP tries to get it right for annual conference
Clearly energised by encouraging poll findings, a fired-up People's National Party (PNP) plans to shrug off the turbulence of the past two years to renew itself as it heads to the National Arena for its annual conference next week... Read More...
NEWS BRIEFS
Prosecution rests in robbery case - The Crown closed its case yesterday after calling more than 50 witnesses to testify at the trial of the policeman and two civilians charged with the series of robberies of returning residents five years ago.... Read More...
Diaspora group to set up St James diabetes lobby
WESTERN BUREAU: A diaspora organisation is making steps to establish an association in the western Jamaica parish of St James that will help raise awareness about diabetes.
The We Are One People Foundation (WAOPF), which was founded by Jamaicans living in Florida.... Read More...
