Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
published: Saturday | August 12, 2006
Chavez to visit
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is expected in Jamaica next week to conclude the signing of a US$260 million loan to the Government for the next phase of Highway 2000.
No birdseed for hunter's licence
The 2006 bird shooting season is set to begin next Saturday and will end on September 24. Dean Peart, Minister of Local Government and Environment, has signed an order declaring the season open for six weekends and for a $1,000 increase...
Leave politics alone - Samuda
General Secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Karl Samuda, has some advice for persons uninterested in making representational politics a serious career. Leave it alone.
'Ivan' relief ready for coffee farmers
The Government has released the $100 million promised as interim payment to lowland and Blue Mountain coffee farmers whose properties were destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
Media group blasts attack on Guyana newspaper
The Media Association of Jamaica (MAJ) has condemned the deadly attacks at the Kaieteur News in Guyana on Tuesday night, in which four employees were murdered.
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