Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Monday | March 23, 2009
Rain or shine - Weather won't mar by-election turnout - parties
THE COUNTRY'S two major political parties are confident that rainy weather affecting West Portland will not influence voter turnout in today's by-election, which could significantly shift the balance of political power. Already the parish has been drenched... Read More...
Man scorched in blaze
FIRE YESTERDAY engulfed the Cool Petroleum Limited fuel depot at Newport West, Kingston, damaging sections of the complex and leaving a worker badly burnt. Winston Ormsby, the company's general manager of operations, told The Gleaner that the blaze started at 3 p.m.... Read More...
Rae Town faces the music
Rae Town, the central Kingston fishing village renowned for rootsy reggae dances and informal dining delights, is a lot quieter nowadays. But an undercurrent of discontent is rumbling. The economic and social reper-cussions of the enforcement of the Noise ... Read More...
Cops turn robbers?
WESTERN BUREAU: Days after the police force was rocked with the embarrassing revelation of having a fake cop on staff, news has emerged that three of its members robbed a customer at a Western Union office in Montego Bay on Saturday afternoon... Read More...
Obama in the house - Cops head to summit in T&T
THIRTY LOCAL cops will be part of a regional team to provide security at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, from April 17-19.United States President Barack Obama will be attending the summit.Deputy Superintendent of Police... Read More...
'Children of Sisyphus' still struggling
Residents of Rae Town fishing village, like the inhabitants of Dungle in H. Orlando Patterson's 1964 novel Children of Sisyphus, are still pushing the stone up the hill.
Development of the seaside inner city seems to be going nowhere fast. "It (life) bad, wi nuh have no work... Read More...
Every mickle mek a ...
Despite the tough global economic situation, Gary Williams, chairman and founder of Children of Jamaica Outreach (COJO), is to donate some 15 computers, provide scholarships and other school supplies to schools during May, annually observed as Child... Read More...
One to Watch: Boys' & Girls' Champs
Holm-town hero - Janieve Russell, Date of birth: 14-11-93Class: ThreeSchool: HolmwoodEvents: High jump, long jump, 80m hurdles, 4x100m, 4x400.Personal records: High jump (1.88m), long jump (5.88m), 80m hurdles (11.72).Main rivals: Russell identified... Read More...
'Politics damaged marriage' - Exhausting as a mom, says Vaz's wife
BLOODSHOT EYES and a gold, green and black T-shirt with 'Jamaica Mi Born' are legacies of Ann-Marie Vaz's latest West Portland sojourn. Three days before today's by-election, the wife of Jamaica Labour Party candidate Daryl Vaz was eager for the end... Read More...
Pyne still out in the cold
A CONSTITUTIONAL provision yesterday prevented the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) from voting on a resolution to have Dr Dennis Pyne resume his medical practice.Pyne, a consultant general thoracic surgeon, has been on interdiction since July 14, 2008, pending... Read More...
MoBay crime wave hurts major hospital
WESTERN BUREAU: The crime wave affecting St James is placing a major strain on health facilities in the parish with victims of violence flooding hospitals and other treatment facilities. Between December last year and January more than 3,000 persons were treated... Read More...
Cancer poster girl dies at 27
LONDON (AP): Jade Goody, a dental assistant-turned-reality-TV star whose whirlwind journey from poverty to celebrity to tragedy became a national soap opera in Britain, died of cervical cancer yesterday at the age of 27. Read More...