Gleaner Editors' Forum - Police concerned ...
The following is an excerpt from The Gleaner Editors' Forum held recently at the newspaper's North Street headquarters. The theme was 'Current Police Challenges'.
Roving Caregiver Programme a success
THE ROVING Caregiver Programme (RCP), which was designed to stimulate the minds of children living in economically-depressed rural areas, has reaped tremendous success, so much so, that the programme is to be replicated in Swaziland.
In search of a better Africa - Historic' debt relief: Who profits?
MUCH CHEST-THUMPING will accompany this week's announcement by the world's wealthy (G8) nations of a new deal for African debt relief. According to British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown the $40 billion deal will mean 100% write-offs...
Eighty-five-year-old man fleeced by 'good Samaritans'
THE EDITOR, Sir: ON FRIDAY, July 1, at about 11:30 a.m., my 85-year-old stepdad and his eight-year-old grandson were walking from Edgewater along Portmore Parkway towards the direction of Portmore Mall, when upon leaving the bridge...
Sentencing rules concern lawyers
The Jamaican Bar Association (JBA) has raised objections to guidelines to be followed at sentencing hearings for convicts who can be sentenced to hang.
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