Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Monday | November 16, 2009
Y'all don't care! - Response to Ananda Alert heartbreaking - Critic: Lacklustre campaign to blame
Jamaicans have given a lukewarm response to an urgent call to play a critical role in the success of the Ananda Alert, a nationwide child-abduction alert network named after 11-year-old Ananda Dean, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2008. The multi-agency alert system... Read More...
Response to Ananda Alert heartbreaking
At least two of the major mobile providers have agreed to partner with the Government on the Ananda Alert initiative. Each company was to provide a number for its customers to text in and request that the missing children's alerts be sent to them... Read More...
Bye-bye, Burchell - New UK envoy by January
AFTER JUST under three years in the job as Jamaica's high commissioner to the United Kingdom, Burchell Whiteman is to be replaced next January. Government minister and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) General Secretary Karl Samuda made the announcement yesterday... Read More...
Plagued by 'human mosquitoes'
DEVELOPED IN the late 1960s to satisfy the housing needs of the lower middle class outside the Corporate Area, Independence City, the first planned Portmore development, gave new hope to its inhabitants. Their only concern was the inconvenience of mosquitoes... Read More...
Cracking Portmore ganglands
Although the St Catherine South police have named informally developed areas such as Gregory Park, Newland, Naggo Head and Old Braeton as hot spots in Portmore, established low-income housing developments such as Portmore Gardens, Southboro, Waterford... Read More...
Baton passed - Labourites to target PNP strongholds
NEW JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) Deputy Leader Desmond McKenzie has vowed to target the seven Corporate Area seats now held by the People's National Party (PNP). McKenzie, the mayor of Kingston, was ushered into the senior ranks of the JLP yesterday ... Read More...
Police mum on man's drowning in Trelawny
WESTERN BUREAU: INFORMATION IS still sketchy on what led to the demise of a Trelawny man who drowned while fishing near SuperClubs' Breezes Resort and Spa in Rio Bueno yesterday.Dead is Winston Robinson of Rio Bueno... Read More...
Criminal case management
George Taylor* has a criminal matter before the court and says he is frustrated with the long period he has to wait for the matter to be tried. He wants to know if the Ministry of Justice has plans to address this perennial problem... Read More...
Floridian gives aid to local academics
SOME OF Jamaica's problems rest with the nation being unable to hold on to its best and brightest talent due to less-than-favourable living conditions, which eventually lead to migration. Others have looked at the flight of the skilled in terms of what they can contribute... Read More...
BRIEFS
Irate cabbies honk against fare hike - The Jamaica Association of Transport Owners and Operators (JATOO) has rejected the proposed 17.5 per cent fare increase for route-taxi operators. The Office of Utilities Regulation has recommended that the base... Read More...
