UDC scandal - Report damns Lawrence on Whitehouse hotel project
CONTRACTOR GENERAL Greg Christie has accused Government entities and officials, including then chairman of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), Dr. Vin Lawrence, of committing flagrant breaches of procurement procedures...
GLEANER EDITORS FORUM on Agriculture
In continuation of our special focus on the agricultural sector we present excerpts of the views of key agricultural stakeholders on the state of agricultural education in Jamaica.
LEE CHIN - takes Medical Associates Hospital
MICHAEL LEE Chin's fund management company, AIC, is spending $65 million for a 67 per cent stake in Kingston's privately-owned Medical Associates Hospital and has invited the Delhi-based hospital consulting and health care group, Apollo...
Jamaica take two medals
JAMAICA HAVE claimed two medals so far at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Cartagena, Colombia. Jamaica managed a silver medal in swimming through Alia Atkinson, who was second in the women's 200 metre breaststroke.
JPS - coincidence and confusion
COINCIDENCE IN life as in literature, especially when it involves more than two events, is treated with a high degree of suspicion. This is because the normal chain of cause and effect appears to be violated - which frustrates the process...
LETTER OF THE DAY - JCDC beauties not yet 'beyond boundaries'
THE EDITOR, Sir: WHEN I heard that the theme of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) for the Festival Queen 2006 Competition was 'Beauty Beyond Boundaries', I was really excited. Why do you ask?
A cute, harmless romantic comedy
Just My Luck is a light, cute, harmless movie. Directed by Donald Petrie and with a screenplay by I. Marlene King and Amy Harris, its strongest ammunition is that its co-stars Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine are both cute.
7 ways to...DE-STRESS
IT'S NO use talking about getting rid of stress - it's not going to happen. The experts say that demands and changes in daily living create physical, mental and emotional responses which the body experience as pure stress.
Caribbean Cardiac Society visits Jamaica
WESTERN BUREAU: APPROXIMATELY 300 heart specialists from across the English, Dutch, Spanish and French-speaking Caribbean are in the island for a week of activities, including administering free heart checks to persons in St. James.
SOUTH AFRICA: Mandela marks quiet 88th birthday with family
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters): NELSON MANDELA celebrated a quiet 88th birthday with his family yesterday as South Africans wished the anti-apartheid hero many more birthdays to come. Mandela, who formally retired from public life in 2004, had no public events...
