GLEANER EDITORS' FORUM - Sugar gasping
WESTERN BUREAU: TWENTY YEARS ago, sugar cane cultivation accounted for 25 per cent of the total lands under crop cultivation in Jamaica - about 45,000 hectares - and employed about 18 per cent of the total workforce involved in agriculture.
University and Allied Workers Union (UAWU) head raps PNP administration
NEW PRESIDENT of the University and Allied Workers Union (UAWU) Lambert Brown came out swinging against the People's National Party (PNP) Government on Sunday.
Businessman charged with simple larceny
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: A 59-YEAR-OLD businessman has been arrested and charged by the Spanish Town police with simple larceny of items totalling more than $50 million. He is Bennedeto Perschili, otherwise called 'Benny' of 28B Stetson Drive...
Jamaican vies for black history essay contest
HADEN XAVIER Allen, a 16-year-old Jamaican-born student residing in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is one of 10 finalists chosen from more than 2,000 contestants to win the 2006 NBC4/WRC-TV 4 Black History Month Essay Contest.
College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) ordered to free student council funds
PORTLAND: TENSIONS WERE high yesterday at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) in Portland, following a Supreme Court ruling that the school's administration is to release all student council funds with immediate effect.
Cruickshank appointed Queen's Counsel
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW GLEN Cruickshank has been appointed a Queen's Counsel. Mr. Cruickshank has been the executive director of the Legal Aid Council since 2003. The appointment of Queen's Counsel is a distinguished legal honour.
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