Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Friday | March 13, 2009
Parliament drama - Theatre director checks in on abortion debate in historic fashion
DRAMA UNFOLDED in Gordon House yesterday. Parliamentarians allowed it, but in its wake, they were left with mixed emotions. The 32-year-old Sistren Theatre Collective used drama dubbed 'A Slice of Reality on the Ground' to make a strong case for the legalisation... Read More...
Norman Manley High at it again!
Science students and teachers from Norman Manley High School once again proved their scientific prowess by copping one of three first-place awards at the second leg of the 2009 Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Science and Technology Exposition yesterday.... Read More...
Electricity theft driving up light bills, says JPS - Power company complains to OUR
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is losing to thieves almost 13 per cent of the electricity it produces. This means that persons in inner-city communities who 'throw up' lines and steal electricity and commercial... Read More...
Passport recall - Security ministry says former ministers to lose diplomatic documents
THE MINISTRY of National Security has said that the clerk of the Houses of Parliament is now in the process of recalling all diplomatic or official passports issued to former members of the Senate and the Lower House.... Read More...
Community cries for slain pastor
WESTERN BUREAU: The community of Dias, Hanover, was covered in a tapestry of sorrow and shock yesterday as teary-eyed residents struggled to come to terms with the brazen gun slaying of Pastor Lynford Richie. Another man, 41-year-old carpenter Godfrey Cunningham, was also killed... Read More...
Prisoner hunger stalls King trial
The Department of Correctional Services' practice of not providing lunch for prisoners on trial at the Home Circuit posed a big problem yesterday when a murder trial had to be adjourned because of a hungry prisoner. Senior Puisne Judge Marva McIntosh had to grant... Read More...
JDF short of funding
Alack of infrastructure and adequate personnel have forced the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) to be innovative to survive. At the Newcastle training centre, dilapidated buildings with missing roofs, crumbling foundations and walls that had not seen paint in years... Read More...
66 Jamaicans join overseas workforce
A total of 66 Jamaicans departed the island yesterday to take up jobs in North America under the Government's overseas employment programme. >The number included 50 farm workers, who will be working in the United States of America, and 16 persons who will take on jobs ... Read More...
Patrons go nuts for 'Bigga'
Meet Cerel 'Bigga' Johnson, a coconut and sugar-cane salesman from St Elizabeth who befriends stray dogs and takes pride in serving others. The man with many names is best known as Bigga, so named, ironically, because of his small stature, he says... Read More...
Aneika finds a roof - Group builds house for mother of three
Aneika Richardson is a very proud mother, as she now has a home of her own, and can take better care of her three children. Richardson, 26, received the one-room board house courtesy of a group of Canadians involved in the Children Crossing Borders programme.... Read More...
