Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Thursday | March 26, 2009
No treasure on the beach
The weighty woman wobbled across the beach with a skinny fellow straggling closely behind. The woman was wearing nothing more than the most revealing of underwear that exposed too much of a dodgy pair of legs... Read More...
Bragging rights - PNP MPs the butt of Labourite jokes
DARYL VAZ returned to Gordon House Tuesday, but the usually vocal man had to keep quiet as he is still not officially back in the parliamentary fold.Vaz came up a resounding victor in the West Portland by-election Monday but will not be sworn in until next Tuesday... Read More...
Hydel launches renewable energy competition
Hyacinth Bennett, founder and president of the Hydel Group of Schools, says the country needs to appreciate the value of renewable energy if it wants to take itself out of the financial bind it is in.Bennett said that with global warming and other environmental problems... Read More...
Success for St Ann farmer
As the Ministry of Agriculture intensifies its efforts to boost production and productivity within the agricultural sector, pepper has become an area of focus, locally and internationally. St Ann farmer Conroy Cole welcomed the initiative and was extremely... Read More...
Historian blasts upper-class hypocrisy - Knocks bias against dancehall and patois
In 1865, the elite of the Jamaican society was decrying the country's plunge into moral decadence. The Morant Bay uprising, led by Paul Bogle, was reminiscent, to them, of the stench of black barbarism that rose up in Haiti following the Haitian Revolution... Read More...
Air Jamaica boosts NY flights to Grenada
To meet increased traffic anticipated this summer, Air Jamaica will add two weekly non-stop flights from New York/JFK to Grenada, bringing the airline's total weekly flights to the Eastern Caribbean island to four.Beginning June 26... Read More...
Assault case dumped - Nigerian-Jamaican dentist says reputation has suffered
WESTERN BUREAU: The case against dental practitioner Dr Christopher Ogunsalu, who was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm against his dental assistant, was dismissed in the Montego Bay RM Court last week when the complainant missed a sixth consecutive hearing... Read More...
Brigade fired up
The Government will be moving quickly to douse the flames of public discontent over Jamaica's fire service with a staggered plan to modernise the brigade, a junior minister has said. Robert Montague, minister of state in the Office of the Prime Minister... Read More...
Scotia plants Mustard Seed
Scotiabank donated 15 bunk beds to the Mustard Seed Communities on Tuesday for 30 children who lost their belongings after fire destroyed Martha's House, its charity outpost at North Street, Kingston, last Monday.The organisation also presented bed... Read More...
Concern over CARICOM trade pact with Canada
OTTAWA, Canada: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr Kenneth Baugh, has expressed concerns about the upcoming free trade agreement to be signed between Canada and CARICOM.Speaking with Canada's Minister... Read More...
Youthlink Csec seminars start April
The Gleaner's Youthlink CSEC seminar series, geared to arm secondary-level students with tips and strategies to beat back exam blues, will roll out in April.Corporate Affairs and Marketing Manager Karin Cooper said the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate... Read More...
