Jamaica Gleaner reporters among Prime Minister's youth award recipients
GLEANER REPORTERS, Robert Lalah and Shelly-Ann Thompson emerged winners in the Journalism category of the Prime Minister's youth awards held at Emancipation Park on Sunday.
Ashenheim migrating to Bermuda
LAST FRIDAY Richard Ashenheim, a longstanding member of the Gleaner Company's board of directors, left Jamaica to live in the British dependent island of Bermuda.
'No conflict in crime teams' - Golding: Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) task force won't interfere with bi-partisan committee
OPPOSITION LEADER Bruce Golding says his naming of a crime task force would not conflict with the party's participation on the bi-partisan Crime Committee. He told The Gleaner yesterday that the functions of the two bodies were different...
Burke insists People's National Party's (PNP) delegate structure needs revamping
PAUL BURKE, head of the People's National Party's (PNP) 'Campaign for Transformation', is sticking by his claim that the party's delegate structure needs to be revamped.
50 new Justices of the Peace for Westmoreland, Jamaica
WESTERN BUREAU: THE WESTMORELAND Lay Magistrates Association augmented its membership with 50 new Justices of the Peace who were sworn in at an installation ceremony at the Negril Hills Golf Club on Saturday.
Alligator Church Bridge may crumble - Portland residents
PORT ANTONIO, Portland: RESIDENTS OF various communities in the Upper Rio Grande Valley, Portland, have expressed concern over the state of the Alligator Church Bridge, which is decaying rapidly and could crumble at any time.
Interest groups recommend minimum wage increase in Jamaica
AN ISLANDWIDE consultation on the National Minimum Wage has seen more persons recommending that it be increased from $2,400 to $3,000. The hearings were conducted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security to solicit suggestions from interest groups...
Miss Lou's nation-language revolution
IN CARIBBEAN literature there has always been a vigorous strain of oral composition existing alongside the written tradition. Think of the slave and indenture songs of sorrow and survival, folk tales, the Anansi stories, calypsos and road marches...
THE Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) lauds Caribbean Secondary Examinations Council (CSEC)
THE JAMAICA Teachers' Association (JTA) has lauded the Caribbean Secondary Examinations Council (CSEC) for introducing the new competency based examination for secondary school students.
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