Add our RSS feed | Bookmark Jamaica-Gleaner.com
Air Jamaica
Go-Jamaica Gleaner Classifieds Discover Jamaica Youth Link Jamaica
Business Directory Go Shopping inns of jamaica Local Communities

Sections
Lead Stories
News
Business
Sport
Commentary
Letters
Entertainment
Flair
International
More News
The Star
Financial Gleaner
Overseas News
The Voice
Communities
Hospitality Jamaica
Google
Web
Jamaica- gleaner.com

Archives
1998 - Now (HTML)
1834 - Now (PDF)
Services
Find a Jamaican
Hotel Booking
Library
Live Radio
Weather
Subscriptions
News by E-mail
Newsletter
Print Subscriptions
Interactive
Chat
Dating & Love
Free Email
Guestbook
ScreenSavers
Submit a Letter
WebCam
Weekly Poll
About Us
Advertising
Gleaner Company
Contact Us
News Links
Stabroek News

published: Monday | March 20, 2006

Breaking News: Jamaican Ambassador Peter King found dead.

Jamaican Ambassador Peter King’s body was found at his home this morning with stab wounds. King was an active trade official and up to the time of his death, was an advisor to the commerce and technology minister, Philip Paulwell.

Watch this space for more updates.

Powell and Brooks win Gold Medals

JAMAICA STRUCK DOUBLE gold today when home-grown world record holder Asafa Powell..

Lead Stories


Hundreds mourn slain family - Simpson Miller calls for fasting and prayer
PRIME MINISTER-DESIGNATE Portia Simpson Miller yesterday called for several days of fasting and prayer for the nation's people and children in particular, as the country struggles to cut its high crime rates.

More Stories
Disney-style waterpark for Negril
Church urged to continue Jesus' global mission
Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) energy-saving exhibition on in Mandeville
Montego Bay couple abducted - Kidnappers posed as cops
Man shot, killed on Charles Street

News


Christian lawyers step up fight against charter
MEMBERS OF the local Christian community are strengthening their resolve against elements of the proposed Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Under the charge of the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship, concerned Christians convened...

More Stories
Obesity in Government on a starvation diet! (Part II)
Students, youngsters illegally armed - cops
Bus driver spends five days in jail for 'traffic offence'
Tearful farewell for Levonna Gordon
UWI - ENROLMENT AT MONA OVER 15,000 STUDENTS
University of the West Indies (UWI) survey on the homeless to begin soon
Students' Loan Bureau offers more options to students
The dangers of trans fat

Business


GM loss hits shares and credibility of management
REUTERS: GENERAL MOTORS Corp. shares and bonds fell on Friday after the automaker increased its 2005 loss by $2 billion due to accounting errors, raising questions about the company's management and renewing doubts about its long-term survival.

More Stories
Local cable companies happy for ad legislation

Sport


McKoy gets Jamaica off the mark
MELBOURNE, Australia: JAVELIN THROWER Olivia McKoy won Jamaica's first medal at the XVIII Commonwealth Games yesterday when she placed third in the final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

More Stories
Atkinson bows out in semis
Defeat looms over Windies
Alpha set to advance
St Catherine on the prowl for another victory
Fulham stun Chelsea

Commentary


Preparing for Cricket World Cup
THE WEST Indies will be hosting the next World Cup of cricket and the West Indies, through managing director and chief executive officer Chris Dehring and the organising committee, has promised the world the best ever World Cup.

More Stories
The right to criticise
Slobodan checks out
Waste not want not

Letters


LETTER OF THE DAY - Compassion to curb atrocities
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE RECENT victory of Minister Portia Simpson Miller is an indication that Jamaicans are exercising a level of maturity needed to lift us out of the doldrums into which this country has fallen.

More Stories
Seeking pic of SS Jamaica Producer
Problems with Customs
The power of intercession

Entertainment


An exceptional Fun in the Son
ALTHOUGH DJ Nicholas was not struck down on the Damascus Road, he was given a new name on Saturday like many Christians of old. The artiste is no longer to be called DJ Nicholas, but henceforth from Fun in the Son, is to be called...

More Stories
'V' for victory at US box office
MISS JAMAICA UNIVERSE CONTESTANTS 2006 - Tanesha Davis

Flair


NATOYA DOULATT STITCHES 'ST BESS'
TWENTY-NINE YEAR-OLD fashion designer Natoya Doulatt has been sewing since she was a wee tot. At age 10 she used only a needle and her grandmother's scissors and made for herself a baby doll dress. Before that, she was altering her dolls' dresses...

More Stories
College mates seal hearts
SISTREN THEATRE COLLECTIVE - Unscorched and alive after 29 years
Bedroom toys: The doctor speaks
LUSCIOUS LIPS
Death and taxes

International


UNITED STATES: NEW YORK TIMES REVEALS ARMY TORTURE CHAMBER - New Iraq abuse horrors revealed
NEW YORK (AP): MEMBERS Of a shadowy United States military unit turned one of Saddam Hussein's torture chambers into their own interrogation cell, where they beat prisoners with rifle butts and used detainees for target practice in games of jailer...

More Stories
FRANCE: More unrest threatened, but gov't not budging
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Panday on trial for undeclared bank account
AFGHANISTAN: Afghan faces death for becoming a Christian


Tropical Weather

Click for Details







Western Union


Cartoon of the Day
cartoon


Air Jamaica

© Copyright 1997-2006 Gleaner Company Ltd.
Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Disclaimer | Letters to the Editor | Suggestions | Add our RSS feed

Jamaica Gleaner News Index
Home - Jamaica Gleaner