PNP fallout begins - Two Phillips supporters quit, another targeted
The casualties from last Saturday's presidential election in the People's National Party (PNP) have started with a senior member of parliament (MP) relinquishing his position as an opposition spokesman while a caretaker has resigned. At the same time, a sitting MP...
Voxpop
Yesterday, a Gleaner Western Bureau team hit the streets and asked: Should Dr Peter Phillips resign from the PNP or remain to help rebuild the party?Roy Eadman,delivery man:I think Peter Phillips should stay and help to build and reunite the party.
Children's advocate probes 13-y-o model contest winner
The Office of the Children's Advocate has launched a full investigation into the awarding of a 13-year-old girl as the winner of a fashion model competition.Henderson Downer, acting children's advocate, told The Gleaner yesterday that a team of investigators...
No decision from Phillips
DEFEATED PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) leadership contender, Dr Peter Phillips, says it is too early to say whether he will be stepping down from his current positions in the PNP.Phillips is the leader of opposition business in the House of Representatives ...
Ministry of Labour demands 21-day notice
The Government has started discussions with the Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF) on the controversial amendments to the Employment (Termination and Redundancy Payment) Act. Acting Chief Executive Officer of JEF, Leroy Brown, told The Gleaner yesterday...
NHDC loses $260m suit
The National Housing Development Corporation Ltd (NHDC) yesterday lost the $260-million civil suit it brought against Danwill Construction Ltd, which is owned by east Kingston businessman Danhai Williams.The suit was also filed against two former NHDC...
Gleaner awards long-serving employees
When Ezmon Daley walked towards the platform during The Gleaner Company's annual long-service awards function at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in St Andrew, yesterday, his colleagues and guests joined in a standing ovation as they saluted his 45 years...
THE DEENAHLITES
WESTERN BUREAU: The 'new' bodies that are walking out of Richard Deenah's Biokinergo studio in Montego Bay, can rival any model on the runways of New York, Paris or Caribbean Fashion Week. The creation of these new bodies has generated much excitement...
Thank God for grandmothers!
Even in her dying days, my grandmother was figuring out how she could take care of my brother and me. With her mind hazy and her heart failing, she rang me from her hospital bed one day, insisting in an urgent whisper that if I got a call from the hospital....
'My grandmother taught me good morals, good values'
Call them what you will, Grandma, Granny, Gramps, Nana, Nan, Nanny, even Mom, grandmothers around the world play a special role in the lives of their families. In African/Caribbean societies, they are usually primary caregivers, holding together the families...
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