Jamaica Gleaner News- Lead Stories - Sunday

Tourism-ad blitz - JTB pulling out all the stops to combat decline in North American tourist arrivals

AS MANY OF the island's hoteliers reel under the global economic turmoil, plans are afoot to roll out national and spot television advertising in the United States and Canada. This is one of a number of promotional initiatives aimed at cauterising projections of a 30 per cent decline in tourist arrivals for the winter tourist season, which starts tomorrow.

Rescue plan - PM to announce measures to protect troubled sectors

THE NATION should know today how the Government will react to the global financial crisis which has already started to have a devastating impact on some local industries.

Bar Association takes aim at minimum gun sentence

THE JAMAICAN BAR Association is gearing up for a fight with the Government should Parliament vote to institute minimum sentences for gun crimes. "I don't agree with it and if they try it, we are going to challenge it in court," president Jacqueline Samuels-Brown told The Sunday Gleaner yesterday.

Damming the gorge - Proposal to go before Parliament

THE NATIONAL Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC) is considering an ambitious plan, which would involve building a new toll road to bypass the Bog Walk gorge in St Catherine. The move would facilitate the creation of a massive dam in that area to provide potable water to the Kingston Metropolitan Region.

'Sensationalised reporting perpetuates crime'

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of Family Life Ministries, Dr Barry Davidson, has called on journalists to stop sensationalising crime when reporting it. He suggested that by doing so, they are contributing to its perpetuation.

Nostalgia kept Hartley Neita's adrenaline flowing

IF READERS of his Gleaner column believed Hartley Neita lived in a time capsule, then it is likely they understood his fascination with nostalgia. It took him back to a time when Jamaica was a civilised society.

Small-attraction operators frustrated - Bureaucratic requirements costly, time-consuming

SMALL ATTRACTIONS in Trelawny are failing long before they get into business because of impractical and bureaucratic requirements being thrust upon them by state agencies, killing the parish's potential to earn more from the lucrative tourism trade, developers argue.