GLEANER EDITORS' FORUM - Commerce graces Grants Pen
PROPERTY VALUES are on the rise and businesses are looking up in the once volatile St. Andrew community of Grants Pen. Delivery trucks which had stopped transporting goods to the area, are rolling through the streets again.
GENERATING GENIUS
Thirty boys from a cross-section of schools across the island are participating in the 2006 Generating Genius programme. The programme selects boys, aged 12 and over, to participate for five years. Boys are selected for the programme based on GSAT...
Flow angers cable operators
FLOW, THE integrated telecommunications provider that is spending upwards of US$100 million to enter the Jamaican market, says that it is in acquisition talks with 18 local cable television providers, but rejects that its aim is to push small players...
Tough day for local stars
IT PROVED to be another tough day for the Jamaicans at the ITF Jamaica Junior International Tournament as the last two singles prospects, Jordan Harris and Oshane Trail, exited the boys' 14 quarter-final round yesterday at the NCB...
The UDC / Whitehouse fiasco
IF IT does materialise that the directors of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) were to resign in the face of the report by Contractor General Greg Christie on the fiasco at Sandals Whitehouse, it would be most welcome and refreshing.
LETTER OF THE DAY - When and why church bashing is justified
THE EDITOR, Sir: WITH THE recent upheaval concerning the Church Dayton's deacon and the assault and videotaping of the teenage girl, the church on a whole has been bashed and rightly so. A Gleaner article on June 10 reported that church founder Ruby...
Old school rocks Sumfest
WESTERN BUREAU: IT WAS a nostalgic journey down memory lane at the Pier One Complex, Montego Bay, St. James, on Wednesday night as the veteran cast on the 'Top Ranking Night' of Red Stripe Reggae Sumfest 2006, treated patrons to old school...
A fine French soirée
WITH JULY being the month for diplomatic celebrations, it was time for our friends from France to throw their own soirée. Once again, it recalled the storming of the Bastille. Members of the 33rd Regiment of the Marine Infantry...
