THE FATAL shooting of eight persons in Tredegar Park, St Catherine, last Friday has helped ensure that the most dangerous place to live in Jamaica is Spanish Town and its environs...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Westmoreland police are appealing to the public to assist them in identifying four of five men shot dead in alleged police-criminal confrontations in sections of the parish early Monday morning....
Controversy-plagued parliamentarian Everald Warmington yesterday defiantly characterised Contractor General Greg Christie as an "overzealous idiot" after the politician was implicated in misconduct in the award of government contracts....
FORMER GLEANER News Editor Joan Marjorie Barnett was yesterday remembered as a woman who was dedicated and meticulous in her work, and who cherished her family and friends.Mourners transformed the Meadowrest Memorial Chapel...
The health sector received another five beds to tackle the country's need for intensive care. This, as the Adventist-owned and operated Andrews Memorial Hospital (AMH) in St Andrew officially opened its Intensive Care Unit (ICU) last Friday.
RETIRED GOVERNOR general and former University of the West Indies (UWI) principal, Sir Kenneth Hall, has suggested that Jamaican tertiary institutions might soon need to consider whether students...
The Jamaica Customs Department yesterday closed down the operations of Key Motors Limited and arrested its owner, Desmond Panton, for alleged customs duty evasion.
THE CARIBBEAN Examinations Council (CXC) is reporting an improvement in the performance of candidates who sat this year's Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE)...
The sentencing of 34-year-old businesswoman Althea Morgan-Carr had to be put off yesterday because the police had no ambulance to transport her from the women's prison at Fort Augusta, St Catherine, to the Home Circuit...
RETIRING POLITICIAN Maxine Henry-Wilson has charged her party - the People's National Party (PNP) - to think of ways to remove the burden of auxiliary school fees from the backs of parents. At the same time...
THE MINISTRY of Health is reporting six suspected cases of dengue in the parish.Chief public health inspector for the parish, Caram Ramtulla, said the cases had not been confirmed as the mosquito-borne disease because...
CENTRAL KINGSTON Member of Parliament Ronald Thwaites has urged his constituents to rebuke criminals, irrespective of whether they are associated with the People's National Party (PNP) which he represents....
At 21, Jodian Gordon entered motherhood with a burden not typical of the average mom.Gordon, who hails from the Chetteau community in rural Clarendon, is apprehensive that her baby girl...
Tomorrow marks the 123rd anniversary of the birth of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, perhaps the greatest black leader and philosopher of the 20th century (not forgetting Martin Luther King Jr), and one of the greatest of all...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Amy Muschett Home for the Aged in Trelawny, which has been operational for the past 48 years, continues to cater to the needs of its residents despite many challenges...
The Government is urging parents to save towards their children's university fees ahead of a reallocation of state resources to early-childhood education, a policy which will send tertiary fees skyrocketing in coming years....
Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) President Glendon Harris has defended the relevance of the annual Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show to local farmers.Harris, speaking last Friday at a Gleaner Editors' Forum held...
Fire yesterday gutted three houses and damaged two others on Begonia Drive in the Portmore, St Catherine, community of Hamilton Gardens, leaving 20 people, including six children, homeless....
Former government minister John Junor has lambasted hotelier Gordon 'Butch' Stewart for his attack on Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett."I have no brief to carry for Minister Edmund Bartlett.
THE 115-YEAR-OLD Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) wants to cut it apron strings from Government and is, therefore, advocating a repeal of the act that incorporated the association as a statutory organisation."As a part...
Students who attend the Mandeville-based Northern Caribbean University (NCU) were admonished yesterday to hang on to the institution's Christian values and not yield to temptation.Dr Herbert Thompson, the university's president, made the remarks...
WESTERN BUREAU:The town of Falmouth is not ready for the first two ships that are set to dock there in November, as work has not started on refurbishing the 18th-century commercial capital.In addition to the two small...
There is a stark difference on the sides of the fence separating the Falmouth pier project from the town - ordered activity on the side towards the sea and the teeming, near chaos of a cluttered small town towards land.
Food For the Poor's (FFP's) Agriculture Department - all of two members strong, Norvel Bedward and Dwayne Bent - is sowing the seed of self-help across the island, supporting backyard farming, goat herding, apiculture, and even...
According to the Bible, animals were loaded on to Noah's Ark in pairs, ensuring reproductive capability after the Great Flood. Food For the Poor (FFP) takes much the same approach in its animal-husbandry programme, giving out goats and pigs in pairs to farmers.
