Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Monday | November 23, 2009
'We will pay' - Debt before dishonour, Golding promises

Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday gave the assurance that his administration would not renege on its debt-paying obligations, despite the snail's-pace crawl to a reinstated borrowing arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).... Read More...
May Day girl is 'da bomb'! - Jamaican turns weapons expert in US Navy
Talk about Jamaicans being everywhere!Less than four years after graduating from the little-known May Day High School in Manchester, and just entering her 20s, Nasstacia Daley has assumed the position of aviation ordnanceman (AO) in the United States Navy... Read More...
Protect rights of the disabled, urges Rhodes Scholar
The rights of disabled persons should be constitutionally enshrined to protect them from discrimination, Alecia Johns, the island's Rhodes Scholar for 2010, has argued.Johns, 22, gained the nod for the scholarship last Friday ahead of seven other shortlisted candidates... Read More...
Rocky road for the mourning - Bois Content cemetery cut off by horrible thoroughfare
DEALING WITH the loss of a loved one is a very hard road to travel. And if you live in Bois Content, St Catherine, the phrase takes on new meaning, as the thoroughfare that leads to the community's cemetery has been in dire need of repairs for the last decade... Read More...
Parched and peeved - No piped water in a decade
OVER THE last 15 years, pipes in Bois Content, St Catherine, have become much as the appendix in the human body - serving no real function - as the area has not had the luxury of tap water since the early 1990s. The ever-noticeable feature of the traditional... Read More...
Age 50 is your breast bet - surgeon
A local breast surgeon has endorsed the controversial recommendation recently made by a United States government-sponsored panel against routine annual mammograms for healthy women in their 40s. Dr Patrick Bhoorasingh, senior medical officer at Kingston Public Hospital... Read More...
Gun haul climbs after firefight
The St Catherine South police have surpassed, by one, the 78 illegal guns seized in the division last year with the haul of three weapons during a deadly alleged firefight yesterday afternoon.Dead are Jason Knight, 25, Nigel Reid, 23, of Church Pen, St Catherine... Read More...
Malahoo Forte votes for team Jamaica
With THE word Jamaica emblazoned across her shirt, Marlene Malahoo Forte stood like a proud graduate who had been rewarded for continuous hard and good work.Jamaica's newest senator was on stage during a Jamaica Labour Party conference for the first time... Read More...
New election borders to be decided soon
THE ELECTORAL Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) may soon announce the three additional constituencies which have been created.Karl Samuda, general secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party and ECJ member, says one of the constituencies will be known as Central ... Read More...
Demons, begone - pastor
A Tivoli Gardens pastor yesterday warned government ministers to exorcise demons from their domains. "Go into your ministries and pick out the demons because there are some people that are trying to bring down your ministry," Pastor Patricia Hall... Read More...