WESTERN BUREAU: A weeping mother has vowed to serve God and never to travel abroad for economic reasons after her son committed suicide yesterday. Marcia Reid of Flankers, Montego Bay, cried uncontrollably after her 14-year-old son...
Jamaicans are often generally thought of as stubbornly supportive of Brazilian football. However, teams like Germany and Argentina have always had a solid fan base. Gleaner Intern Patrina Pink went on the streets of downtown Kingston...
Kay Osborne, general manager of Television Jamaica and Television Jamaica Sports Network, has been elected to the executive committee of the Commonwealth Broadcasters Association (CBA) by the delegates attending the recent CBA 2010 General Conference...
In February 1991, Dr Barry Chevannes chaired a workshop called Fathers Only. The participants were invited to meet and continue the dialogue. They did so two months later, adopting the name Fathers Only...
Tourism officials yesterday moved quickly to correct a Gleaner report than an additional US$1.4 million (J$123.2) was being paid to American Airlines (AA) as part of an airlift agreement entered into in 2008. However, that has opened a can of worms...
WASHINGTON: PATRICK BECKFORD, the chairman of the northeast region of Jamaica Diaspora in the United States, has criticised the Ministry of Tourism for its approach in the marketing of the country.Beckford, who said...
A first-class, ultra-modern facility could emerge from the ashes of what is now Coronation Market in downtown Kingston. That is the dream of Prime Minister Bruce Golding, who was yesterday joined by many captains of the private sector for a tour of the facility...
LIKE A college student eager for a home-cooked meal, so have Jamaicans been hungry for the start World Cup. While the beautiful game has unpacked its suitcase for its one-month visit to South Africa, Jamaicans unable to make the journey to Johannesburg need not mourn.
Less than 24 hours after Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) crews surged into downtown Kingston Monday on the back of a police/military operation to disconnect illegal electrical supply, some of the lights were back on - and not legally....
An associate professor of business and economics at Lafayette College in the United States will be the next director general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ).Professor Gladstone Hutchinson has been selected by the Government to fill...
The American Airlines (AA) seat-guarantee deal signed by the Government in 2008 will cost less than feared by its critics but much more than was anticipated by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett.Under the one-year deal, which ended last November...
A man whose body was buried in a shallow grave in Tivoli Gardens was killed by multiple gunshots.That was the finding of the government pathologist who conducted an on-the-spot post-mortem on the body yesterday....
The Government is to establish an anti-gang unit in the Ministry of National Security as part of its thrust to demolish organised criminal networks believed to be behind the majority of violence in Jamaica.The special...
Failure to plug a deep-sea well which has spilled tens of millions of gallons of oil along the United States Gulf Coast could have disastrous effects on Jamaica's already...
Associates of accused drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke have reportedly headed to the north coast resort town of Ocho Rios. And they certainly haven't carried their beach towels and suntan lotion.
Some suspected confederates of fugitive Christopher Coke are finding hideaways hard to come by after falling into a police dragnet in the business district of Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, yesterday. More than 20 stylish...
A Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) survey on losses suffered by the business and productive sectors shows that more than 98 per cent of its members were hurt by the late-May civil unrest in the capital....
Despite denials by the police yesterday that a comprehensive permit system governing all movement was introduced in Tivoli Gardens on Monday, Gleaner checks and anectodal accounts by residents there confirm its existence...
THOUGH THEY were one of the favourites to win the Super League netball competition, survival - not winning an elusive title - was priority for members of the Tivoli 'A' team late last month....
SOUTH ST CATHERINE Member of Parliament Sharon Hay-Webster will next week come under intense fire from government MPs as debate on a motion to unseat her is expected to get under way.North Eastern St Catherine MP Gregory Mair yesterday moved a motion...
Health Minister Rudyard Spencer has ordered that Jamaica's mosquito-control programme be intensified.As part of the programme, fogging has already been scaled up in some areas and will stretch across most parishes as of today....
Hundreds of passports were seized and one man taken into custody when the police raided an illegal visa operation at John's Lane, downtown Kingston, yesterday....
Jamaica must move quickly to cool the flames of revenge among children in the battle-scarred communities of western Kingston, a government child-health official has warned...
Laboratory tests ordered by the health ministry have confirmed that contaminated water was sold to a rural area all-age school where there was an outbreak of gastro-enteritis in March. The lab tests confirmed that the health...
