AID RAINS DOWN - Gov't commits $1.5b for hurricane victims, road repairs. Prime Minister vows to halve oil dependence by 2017
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has announced that the Government will this week disburse $1.5 billion to assist hurricane victims and to fix rain- ravaged road. This is in addition to $1 billion disbursed last week to the National Works Agency and parish councils to repair roads damaged by Hurricane Dean and torrential rains in October and November.
All set for nominations
All is in place to accommodate the 454 candidates who will be nominated today across the island for the local government elections, which will be held on December 5. Danville Walker, director of elections, said the Electoral Office of Jamaica was fully prepared.
'Two' expensive! Insurance woes doom Jamaican mom's premature twins to die in Cayman
Just a month after a Jamaican woman gave birth to a premature baby on a Cayman Airways flight to Jamaica, another Jamaican mother is mourning the death of her premature twins at a Cayman Islands hospital.
Man smokes self to death
The Westmoreland district of Strathbogie was yesterday rattled by news of a man who rigged the exhaust apparatus of his motor car to suffocate himself.
AIDS label hurts kids
There are hundreds of children in Jamaica living with or affected by HIV. In January 2007, 5,125 children under the age of 15 were estimated to have been orphaned by AIDS. In 2006, 73 children aged zero to nine years old were diagnosed with HIV... They are, however, forced to be silent about the disease they live with out of fear related to how persons will react.
HisStory - A volunteer called Melenin
He's proud of his jet-black skin and his African heritage. He is a Rastafarian who embraces unity and oneness. But, this 24-year-old native of White Horses, St. Thomas, is more than that. He is a super volunteer who goes by the very unusual name, 'Melenin'. Such is Omar Ryan, a recent recipient of the Governor-General Youth Award for Excellence in Volunteerism.
Montego Bay scam blamed for US granny's suicide
The infamous Montego Bay 'lotto scam', which is being blamed for the western city's intolerable murder rate, is said to be the cause of the death of Ann Mowle, a 72-year-old United States grandmother, who recently committed suicide.
Churches join the search for wealth
CHURCHES and clergy have joined the line of persons and organisations seeking to maximise wealth by investing in the foreign exchange trade.Gleaner investigations have revealed that several Christian and other faith-based institutions have either been investing in schemes such as Cash Plus, Swiss Cash or have started investment groups of their own.
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