Waterhouse Community hails Spelling Bee champ
SCORES OF smiling children and adults poured out of their homes in the community of Waterhouse, South St. Andrew on Saturday, April 29, to celebrate the success of their own Rosanna Pike, The Gleaner's reigning Spelling Bee champion.

PNP signals election mode
THE PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) has brought forward the date for submission of candidates for local government and general elections. According to Information Minister Colin Campbell, the party had intended to receive submissions...

Double killing in Cottage district
WESTERN BUREAU: A DOUBLE killing in Cottage district, Little London in Westmoreland, has left the community feeling mixed emotions of relief and grief. The first killing was by a 19-year-old man, Damion Brown, known also as Randy...

Fire damages house in Westmoreland
FIRE YESTERDAY destroyed part of a home where curried dishes were being prepared for the annual Curry Festival held at Manning's School in Westmoreland. At about 8:00 a.m. yesterday during preparation for the festival...

CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS - The history of the Salvation Army in Jamaica
IN 1865, the same year that Jamaica experienced the Morant Bay Rebellion, England experienced a different kind of revolution - a revolution of spirituality. A man named William Booth had an idea.

Maurice Foster's 8-y-o daughter dies in accident
BRITTANI FOSTER, daughter of former Jamaica and West Indies cricketer Maurice Foster, was run over by a vehicle and killed on Saturday in Pines of Karache, St. Andrew. Up to press time, details of the accident were sketchy...