Struggling from the ashes
Over her 75 years in this life, Edna Panton has gone through more than her fair share of challenges, but losing everything she acquired as a result of her hard work has been the hardest thing for her to grapple with. Driving through the 'shrimp town' of Middle Quarters...
GraceKennedy staff group fêtes children from Riverton
Some 161 excited children of Callaloo Mews and Riverton Meadows Early Childhood Centres were on Wednesday fêted by Grace and Staff Community Development Foundation, as part if its Christmas outreach activities. The children, who were between the age of three and six...
Northern Caribbean University (NCU) students launch IT project for primary learning
Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has once again extended its reach beyond the boundaries of its campuses in an effort to influence change and development at the national level. The university's 2007-2008 student ambassadors, Mitchum Burnette and Tameka Wilson, have developed...
Montego Bay leg of highway opens today
WESTERN BUREAU: The dual carriageway of Segment 2A of the North Coast Highway, which runs between Sangster International Airport in St. James and Greenside, Trelawny, will be opened to vehicular traffic today. Minister of Transport and Works, Mike Henry, made the announcement...
Cops equipped to curb accidents
Members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) traffic division will be out in full force as of today, with some 20 newly-acquired breathalyser machines to help curtail the number of traffic accidents during the festive season. With a significant number of road fatalities...
Public sector health contract retender irks Blue Cross
Blue Cross of Jamaica Limited (BCJL) says it is disappointed with the Government's decision to put the contract for the public sector health insurance scheme back to tender. In a letter to The Gleaner, chairman of BCJL, Henry Lowe, argued that there was no need to restart...
Backlog of divorce cases worries lawyers
The slow pace at which divorce petitions are being granted in the Supreme Court since the Matrimonial Causes Rules were amended in September 2006, paving the way for divorces to be granted in chambers without a hearing, is causing severe hardships for both lawyers and their clients....
Privatisation of sugar industry by June next year - Golding
Prime Minister Bruce Golding said the Government hopes to complete privatisation of its interests in the sugar industry by June of next year.This, he says, would pave the way for the kind of capital investments and modernisation required to help the industry remain competitive...
Dec 31 deadline to return bird-shooting report forms
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) says all hunters must complete and return their Bird Shooting Report Forms on or before December 31 by 1:00 p.m. In a release yesterday, NEPA said forms returned after this date would attract a $5,000...
Joseph Edwards is ...Special Constable of the Year
Special Corporal Joseph Edwards, of the Peer Counselling Unit at Harman Barracks, St.Andrew, was on Wednesday named Special Constable of the Year 2007. Sp. Corp. Edwards, who joined the Island Special Constabulary Force in 1999, took the award from a field of 28 other colleagues.
'It has been a good year for the NHF'
THE NATIONAL Health Fund (NHF) has regarded 2007 as one of its most successful years in delivering 'Community Health Days' across the island, with 78 community days held and over 41,500 tests provided for residents in each of the communities visited...
Lorna Golding has big plans for Jamaica House Basic
Lorna Golding, wife of Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has outlined plans that she hopes to implement as she assumes the role of patron of the Jamaica House Basic School. She said, other than accepting the position with great pleasure, she wants to be a working patron...
NEPA: Do not disturb sea turtle hatchlings
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has sought to remind the public that disturbing or harming sea turtle hatchlings, which may now be emerging along beaches around the island and on the offshore cays, is against the law....
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