'Save our men'
If Jamaica is to rescue its males and reduce the spiralling crime rate, men will have to take back their leadership position in the society, says Errol Bolt, senior pastor at Kencot Christian Fellowship Church in St. Andrew. Speaking at a Gleaner Editors' Forum, held yesterday...
Bartlett urged to try religious tourism
The Government is being criticised for not empowering the country's people to invest their natural beauty and cultural talents, rather than continuing the debate on legalising casino gambling. The comments were made by the Reverend Dr. Roy Notice as he delivered the main message...
Cop admits to submitting false statements
WESTERN BUREAU: A policeman who decided 'to walk the straight and narrow' admitted to the court on Tuesday that he had fabricated a statement against a man accused of murder. When the preliminary enquiry got under way against 22-year-old Jason James of Granville, St. James...
Cash Plus remains an NCB customer
The Carlos Hill-led Cash Plus Ltd. will continue to be a customer of the National Commercial Bank (NCB) as the Court of Appeal yesterday ordered that nine of 26 accounts must not be closed. An injunction, in relation to the nine accounts, is to remain in force until the matter returns....
'Love thy neighbour'
The call for unity saturated much of the 28th staging of the annual National Leadership Prayer Breakfast held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston, yesterday, as main speaker, the Rev. Dr. Roy Notice, pastor of the Mandeville New Testament Church of God....
Motorcyclist dies after crash with ambulance
A motorcyclist was killed in Clarendon yesterday when he collided with an ambulance attached to the May Pen Hospital.Dead is 23-year-old Shenrick Russell, of Eve Terrace, May Pen, while in hospital is pillion rider 23-year-old Shenrick Russell, of Eve Terrace, May Pen...
Prepaid rates going up
Cable and Wireless (C&WJ) Homefone Prepaid customers will be facing an increase in their rates as of February 1. The new rates will see customers paying an increase of 36 per cent to Cable and Wireless fixed lines for off-peak periods, and an eight per cent increase for peak periods....
'Strong parenting is key'
AT A time when youth from Jamaica's inner city are stigmatised as gangsters and non-achievers, 18-year-old Andrew Love says he knew from early on the importance of taking a straight and narrow course. Andrew, who is second school vice-captain at Jamaica College (JC)...
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Prayer Breakfast falls short on unity
At least one person in the audience at yesterday's National Leadership Prayer Breakfast believes the revered annual event should have by now fostered greater unity. Making it clear that she was far from 'knocking' the annual event, 'Sister Thomas', the name by which ...
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