Jamaica Gleaner News

Published: Monday Sunday | December 13, 2009

FURI extends helping hand to deportees
DEPORTATION, LIKE migration, has, over time, become a paramount theme in human history. Last year, as 23,580 persons were taking up permanent residence in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada, a total of 3,234 Jamaicans were being deported. Read More...

Bouncing back, FURI helps deportee live above stigma
IMAGINE BEING ripped from your family, and the only life you have known since 15 years old, to be placed among strangers with no place to lay your head. Read More...

From criminal to aspiring preacher, Deportee makes turnaround
He was born at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston and migrated to Canada at the age of two.After 24 years of schooling and being socialised in the Canadian way of life, he was charged with trafficking narcotics. Read More...

Family scours Costa Rican town for missing relative, Michael Dixon last of four tourists to disappear in Tamarindo
It could have been a tale from a Louis L'Amour western about the mythical Sackett clan. One member of the family finds himself in trouble, the odds stacked against him, and the male relatives converge on the scene, loaded for bear and itching to tackle all comers. Read More...

Santa and the Christmas story: Santa letters Not all about toys or manners
SCRANTON, Pa. A microscope. A new puppy. A mother. And absolutely, positively NO CLOTHES. From the humorous to the heart-wrenching, children's wish lists to Santa reveal that children aren't as toy-centric as parents think - and that they're not as polite as perhaps they should be. Read More...

Atheists at Christmas: Eat, drink and be wary
MINNEAPOLIS (AP): Angie O'Neill recently moved into a new apartment complex for seniors and she's trying to make new friends. Read More...

'Christmas City' and casino?
BETHLEHEM, Pa. AP): Visitors looking to get into the holiday spirit have long travelled to Bethlehem, a lovely little city in eastern Pennsylvania founded by Moravians on Christmas Eve, 1741. Read More...

Tamiflu does not reduce pneumonia risks - Study
LOCAL AUTHORITIES say they are not alarmed by the findings of a medical review which concluded that Tamiflu does not reduce the risk of flu patients developing severe complications, including pneumonia. Read More...

Free at last!
For the first general elections under universal adult suffrage held on December 14, 1944, the size of the electorate increased dramatically from 61,121 to 663,069 registered voters. In this new political paradigm, there was also a flood of office seekers with 130 candidates nominated to contest the 32 seats. Read More...

Most wanted, a police commissioner
If you have the requisite qualifications, you have until December 31 to apply for the post of police commissioner, a position which involves leadership of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), the team of policemen and women responsible for crime fighting and law enforcement in the island. Read More...