Honouring Herbert Thompson
GOVERNOR-GENERAL PROFESSOR Kenneth Hall headed a list of delegates including Seventh-day Adventist officials from across the West Indies at a worship service on Saturday to honour Northern Caribbean University President, Dr. Herbert J. Thompson.
Spaldings High to resume classes
SPALDINGS, Clarendon: CLASSES ARE expected to resume at the Spaldings High School in Clarendon this morning following three days of disruption due to a lack of water. Principal of the school, Alphansus Davis, told The Gleaner that water was trucked...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) plea again for enumeration
OFFICIALS OF the Jamaica Labour Party yesterday again pleaded for its members to ensure that they are enumerated. The call was made at the party's Area Council Two annual conference in Old Harbour, St. Catherine.
Jamaican student attacked in Barbados
THE GUILD of students at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados will today hold an emergency meeting to discuss the issue of student security following the beating of a Jamaican student on on a bus on Friday.
Murder accused returns to court
THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL McLean, the man charged with the murder of six members of a family in St. Thomas, is to return to court on April 12. On Friday when Mr. McLean appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court he was remanded...
Udder danger - 10 things wrong with cow's milk
A HEATED debate is now under way about whether consuming cow's milk is healthy or not. Many people, including health-conscious individuals, still consume large amounts of dairy products. In fact, dairy products are often promoted as essential...
Media, self-censorship and political correctness
THE FLAMES have died down but the recent controversy sparked by a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons lam-pooning Islam in general, and Prophet Mohammed in particular, is sure to rise again in relation to other issues.
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