Festive welcome - Government makes plans to celebrate Beijing stars
Four days of celebrations, including motorcades throughout the Corporate Area and Montego Bay, St James, are among the proposals to celebrate the accomplishments of Jamaica's Olympic team at the just-concluded Beijing Games in China...
Olympians should give back
Former sportsman Ali McNab believes the excellent feat achieved by the Jamaican team at the Beijing Olympics can be repeated if retired athletes get involved in honing talents. McNab, an adviser to the sports minister, Olivia Grange, cited the example...
Gustav rages
The Meteorological Service yesterday warned that Jamaica could be affected by outbreaks of showers tonight into tomorrow as Tropical Storm Gustav, moves in a northwesterly direction. Gustav, the seventh storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, is likely to become a hurricane...
Bolt Senior returns
WESTERN BUREAU: Usain Bolt's new celebrity status has rubbed off on his father, Wellesley, who was mobbed by enthusiastic fans at the Bird's Nest, in Beijing, China, last Friday. The senior Bolt, father of the world's fastest man and triple Olympic gold medallist...
Team PNP remains confident in Portia
The campaign organisation of People's National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller has been forced to defend the intellectual abilities of its party leader. Team PNP had put the issue on the agenda by questioning the real reason for Dr Peter Phillips'...
Senior VP leaves Air Jamaica
Paul Pennicook, senior vice-president of sales and marketing of Air Jamaica, has resigned, The Gleaner has been reliably informed.Pennicook joined the airline in mid-2006 after serving for three years as Jamaica's director of tourism. A graduate of...
Principals praise new security measures
Nadine Molloy, president of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools, has lauded the new safety and security measures for schools, but says funding will be needed if the recommendations are to be effectively implemented....
Olympians protected - JIPO has ordered the block as a means of securing the property rights of Jamaican Olympians
Jamaica has moved to protect the domains of Olympic winners.The action, taken by the Jamaica intellectual property office (JIPO), follows similar measures taken by China, which last week announced that it would block attempted Internet registrations...
Tuesdaytalk
Hottest topics on the cocktail circuit - Dishonourable conduct1 There are persistent whisperings about the head of a prominent organisation who has outstanding debts, which he has refused to honour.
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