Lawless
WESTERN BUREAU: On May 16 and again on June 1, a Gleaner news team visited the commercial district of Montego Bay, St James, and noted the level of lawlessness along Market, Church and St James streets in particular. In Sam Sharpe Square, there were a number of persons...
Bomb injures two in St Thomas
A mysterious bomb blast in the commercial district of Morant Bay, St Thomas, yesterday afternoon has left two women injured and members of the business fraternity horrified. Reports are that the loud explosion, which left a plume of thick black smoke in the air...
DIASPORA FOCUS - Church must play role in engineering society
There is need for a greater level of strategic planning within the local church community if it is to have a greater impact on positive national transformation, according to the Rev Dr Joel Edwards, general secretary of the Evangelical Alliance of the United Kingdom...
Rev rebukes PM's stance on gays
Prime Minister Bruce Golding's dismissal of having homosexuals as members of his Cabinet has earned the ire of the Rev Dr Marjorie Lewis, theologian and former general secretary of the Jamaica Council of Churches. In a May 20 interview on the BBC interview programme 'HARDtalk'...
What's right with Jamaica
The Gleaner continues its presentation of the thoughts of influential leaders in society on the more positive features of Jamaica. Today, we bring you the views of Harry Smith, former Digicel marketing guru, now executive in residence at the University of the West Indies...
Conference closes with plans for 2010
Fiery speeches, energetic discussions and packed action plans dominated the final day of the Third Biennial Jamaican Diaspora Conference, held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston yesterday. Senator Dr Ronald Robinson, minister of state in the Ministry...
Highlights of action plans coming out of Jamaican Diaspora Conference:
Education - The establishment of an education trust fund, which will be financed by the Jamaican diaspora to provide proper infrastructure for schools and the funding of scholarships and bursaries for tertiary education.
A new kind of terrorism - Golding
JAMAICA, scarred by more than 760 murders since the start of the year, may be facing "terrorism of a different kind," Prime Minister Bruce Golding said in Parliament yesterday.Golding, who was speaking on national security in the 2008-2009 Sectoral Debate...
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