Jamaica Gleaner News

Published: Monday Friday | October 9, 2009

Granville tops Trelawny - Larieca Harvey earns parish champion final in close finish with classmate
IT WAS a Granville Primary one-two yesterday. Lariecia Harvey and Nigel Phillips went head-to-head until the former was declared winner in what must have been a bittersweet victory for teacher Cassandra Scott and the entire Granville Primary family... Read More...

Adriena gets one over on former champion
THOSE WHO wanted to see repeat winners in The Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee competition would have been disappointed had they come to St James yesterday. Last year's winner, Anphernee Wilson, proved a little hesitant and dropped out at number... Read More...

NIF hasn't bungled - Charles
Minister of Labour and Social Security Pearnel Charles has rejected suggestions that the National Insurance Fund (NIF), which provides funding for the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), is overextending itself by unnecessarily acquiring real estate... Read More...

PAC backs off - Solicitor General advises Parliament to stop probe into PCJ affair
SOLICITOR GENERAL Douglas Leys has advised Parliament's public accounts committee (PAC) to halt its probe into a controversial payment by the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) to a security company for services at a community centre in Santa Cruz in 2006... Read More...

PM waits for the next Budget - Public sector workers' fate to be decided in April; Shaw signs billion-dollar deal
The Government's plan to send home scores of public sector workers will roll out next April. Prime Minister Bruce Golding on Wednesday gave confirmation that the existing public sector structure will remain intact until the next Budget is to be presented ... Read More...

Nurses forced to wait again
The nurses are hopping mad over Government's decision to delay disclosing the decision of the Cabinet relating to their reclassification exercise. On Wednesday, the nurses were called to a meeting with Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles... Read More...

Gleaner remembers Wycliffe Bennett
Since his death on Monday at age 87, persons familiar with Wycliffe Bennett have hailed his role in the development of modern Jamaican theatre. But he was general manager of the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) in 1981 when arguably the most controversial episode... Read More...