'Bank on the poor' - Nobel Prize winner recommends Bangladesh-style social financial policy
Grameen Bank's founder and chief executive officer, Professor Muhammad Yunus, has urged local financial institutions to adopt a social banking policy similar to that which the Bangladesh-based entity has mastered in...
A community built on morality
For the Manchioneal community in Portland, there is real meaning to the phrase, 'strength in numbers'. What began as a project to clean up an abandoned park has in the short space of a decade become a community building phenomenon...
PM rallies Jamaica to combat crime
JAMAICANS have again been urged to join the fight against crime with Prime Minister Bruce Golding saying yesterday that citizens would have to decide their own future."The society is going to have to make some choices, whether not it is going to be prepared to be inconvenienced...
'Jamaica in rough waters'
JAMAICA IS a ship that is being steered off course, most Jamaicans seem to believe.The most recent Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson polls found that a mere 17 per cent of Jamaicans believe that things are heading in the right direction, a more than 10...
Fighting poverty through women
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Professor Muhammad Yunus, founded the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1976. Today, the institution's contribution amounts to 1.5 per cent of that country's coffers; has more than seven million borrowers, 2,500 branches and provides...
Thursdaytalk
HOTTEST TOPICS ON THE COCKTAIL CIRCUIT - 36-man Cuban party! 1. Seems like the new found diplomatic love affair with Cuba is raising eyebrows in that communist nation as well as here in Jamaica. With the word out of Cuba being the latest delegation to arrive...
Luxor and theTemples of Karnak
Cleopatra, Tutankhamun, the Holy Family, Mohammed Ali, King Farouk - we are immersed in the celebrity of Egypt, alluring in its antiquity, calling to us as though part of our own eternal past. Nowhere is more breathtaking than the magnificent complex of temples at Karnak...
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