We will move! - Jazz festival promoter threatens to leave MoBay
WESTERN BUREAU: AIR JAMAICA Jazz and Blues Festival's executive director Walter Elmore is threatening to move the US$2.5 million (J$1.6 billion) event from the tourism capital as a result of lack of support and broken promises by local hoteliers.
SP TOWN REBIRTH? Crime down, gangs under pressure - Foreign-based gangster wants control
THE ELIMINATION of reputed gang leader Donovon 'Bulbie' Bennett has yielded significant benefits in reducing the incidence of crime, including murder, in Spanish Town, according to the police.
PNP campaign funding accusations - 'Hands clean'
AMID SWIRLING allegations of misuse of public funds for campaign purposes, all four candidates jockeying for the leadership post of the People's National Party (PNP) ahead of Prime Minister P.J. Patterson's resignation next month, have declared...
Spanish Town ... halting the slide
APPROXIMATELY 27 factories closed. More than a thousand persons killed. These are some of the uncomfortable facts behind the decline of Spanish Town in the last decade and a half.
'First Lady' to be
She is an artist, mother and a distinguished academic and come February 15, Rheima Claire Holding Hall will become Jamaica's new First Lady. Born in Kingston on August 10, 1941, Mrs. Hall is the daughter of the late Ralph Holding a builder...
Heights of a great Hanover man
WESTERN BUREAU: "HIS PARENTS would have been proud," that was what Mr. Nathan Hall, uncle to Governor-General designate, Professor Kenneth Hall, had to say when the Sunday Gleaner visited his home in Hanover on Tuesday.
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