Golding's choice - JLP insiders, analysts ponder potential Cabinet cuts
Prime Minister Bruce Golding's announcement yesterday that he will be cutting his 16-member Cabinet has sparked discussions in political circles, with strong arguments about who should go and who should stay. Golding has not given any indication of the number of ministers ...
- Creative leadership needed - Nettleford
- Is the Cabinet too large? - Political analysts debate slashing of 16-member executive
- Fujimori sentenced to six years for corruption
- Vox pop
- Owayne is Clarendon champ
- Dixon wins Kingston Bee again
- You're never too old to learn
- Miriam aims for 150
The arrival of the Germans (Part 1)
The following is a republication of an article, written by Dr Rebecca Tortello, as part of the The Gleaner's 'Pieces of the Past' feature.IN A letter to her cousin in Germany, dated December 3, 1778, a German tourist to Jamaica noted happily: "As soon as we disembarked...
- 'Mi sorry' - Parents of Armadale victims regret sending children to facility
- No reduction in School Garden Programme allocation
- New procedure for fibroid tumours comes to Jamaica
- Alcoa loses court battle with goat farmers
- 'I did the right thing' - MP stands firm on decision to abstain from voting during estimates debate
- BRUCE'S ANNOUNCEMENTS
- NEPA finds no link to sugar waste
- Tenant freed of murder charge
- Thursdaytalk
Private sector, unions chime in on PM's speech
While downsizing of the public sector has been deemed inevitable by private sector leaders, the Government is being urged to provide the necessary retraining for workers who would be displaced, as well as opportunities to facilitate the pursuit ...
- Cellphone companies disappointed with tax increase
- Toyota recall - Stuck accelerators lead to accidents, death
- Fed developing new bailout exit tools
Another defeat for winless West Indies
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CMC): The West Indies batting flopped and former India youth captain Virat Kohli stroked an unbeaten half century that steered his side to a comfortable seven-wicket victory, as the ICC Champions Trophy ended its group phase yesterday...
- Holness thrilled with Sunderland experience
- Bolt's records ratified
- INSPORTS donate gear to clubs
- Australia win last-ball thriller
- Fearless Thomas looks to hurdle into 12-sec zone
- Jamaica rider tops T&T series
- IOC members agonise over 2016 Olympic host city
- Row over ban stumps naming of Jamaica squad
- Munro, STETHS win big
- Wounded Manley face St Jago test
- $25m year-two Claro deal for KSAFA
EDITORIAL - Now for the real move, PM
Prime Minister Bruce Golding, in terms of its intellectual context, got it mostly right in his late-night speech to Parliament on Tuesday.He fully embraced, finally, what this newspaper has been advising for so long - that Jamaica cannot afford a public sector...
LETTER OF THE DAY - The PM wasted a golden opportunity
The Editor, Sir: I am one of those Jamaicans whose firm belief it is that the individual best suited to lead our country out of its current predicament is Bruce Golding. Within the last couple of months and days, however, some of the pronouncements made by the prime minister...
- Pernicious silence from the 'saints'
- Distressing cases of abuse
- Self-righteousness writ large
- A daughter's gratitude
- How sugar industry can boost economy
Hip hop book taps into Jamaican roots
The love of hip hop has taken Dalton Higgins, a music programmer, pop culture critic, author, broadcaster and journalist, around the world, but it was a visit to Germany that inspired him to write a new book, Hip Hop World...
One week, three towns, 45 restaurants
Starting this year, The Gleaner-sponsored calendar event now has on board restaurants in Ocho Rios, St Ann; and Montego Bay, St James. Who knows, in the same way that persons take the Knutsford Express to and from the annual jazz festival...
- Scrambled eggs
- CFD Patties in more than 2,400 US retail outlets
- Doing it with Heart
- DINING WITH EMMA - Don't beet around the bush
- Bamboo Village, blending two cultures
- Check out Terra Nova's Regency Room
- Dragon City: A piece of Beijing in Jamaica
- Boone Hall Oasis, at one with nature
- DINING OUT
United States - UN secretary general fires deputy special rep
New York (AP):Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon fired the top American official at the United Nations (UN) mission in Afghanistan yesterday after a widely publicised dispute with his boss over how to deal with widespread fraud charges ...
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