Blind man 'sees' his dreams unfold - Jamalco and community provide new roof for Hurricane Dean victim
MAY PEN, CLARENDON: With many still not fully on the road to recovery after the battering of Hurricane Dean and with the 2008 hurricane season already well under way, at least one member of the Mitchell Town community in Clarendon can still say he is a happy man...
Call to pull up the roots of garrisons
OPPOSITION SENATOR Basil Waite has said there needs to be a development agenda to transform garrison communities throughout Jamaica. Speaking at a Gleaner Editors' Forum Monday, Waite said the dismantling of garrisons was unrealisable until the deplorable social conditions...
Diaspora Focus - South Africa joins the party
With more than five million people in the Jamaican diaspora, the northern Caribbean island needs all the help it can get. Significant strongholds reside in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, funnelling billions of dollars in remittances ...
Court sinks fishy appeal - 15-year sentences stand
The Court of Appeal has thrown out the appeal of four Jamaican fishermen who were held in December 2006 on gun and ammunition charges. Police had seized eight AK-47 rifles, two revolvers and 75 rounds of ammunition from their boat in St Elizabeth...
Move to better manage Students' Loan Bureau
In an effort to have more students accessing the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB), the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, is negotiating with the Government to restructure the bureau.Professor Gordon Shirley, principal of the UWI, made the disclosure...
Five master keys to success (Part 5)
Jacob A. Riis said something profoundly true: "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without so much as a crack showing in it...
McLean fired up about community policing bid
Days before the implementation of a new community policing initiative, the constabulary's hierarchy is urging its members to adapt quickly to the more professional crime-fighting approach it will demand. Assistant Commissioner of Police John McLean, head...
Good Shepherd on fund-raising drive
WESTERN BUREAU: The Good Shepherd Foundation is on a campaign to raise at least $10 million to fund numerous charitable projects, addressing education, health care and children's homes. Founder and patron of the Good Shepherd Foundation, Roman Catholic Bishop of Montego Bay...
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