'Same rights for refugees'
WESTERN BUREAU: Chairman of the Justice Commission and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston, Father Jim Webb, says foreign nationals who are given refugee status have the same rights as Jamaicans and must be dealt with accordingly.
Shirley next principal of UWI, Mona
Professor Gordon, Shirley has been appointed principal of the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI).
Close call on performance ratings of Gov't
THOSE IN favour say 'aye'. Those against? 'Nay!' And, the 'nays' have it. But only just, as it seems the Portia Simpson Miller-led government has come up short on the issue of performance, according to the latest Gleaner-commissioned...
War veterans remembered
Jamaican veterans of the Second World War will gather at the National Heroes Park to lay wreathes at the Cenotaph tomorrow on Remembrance Sunday.
Nicholson stands firm on Business Names legislation
Senate Leader and Attorney- General, A.J. Nicholson, yesterday rejected the notion that legislation recently passed in Parliament treaded on the constitutional rights to freedom of speech and should therefore, be revisited.
Global trends in missions
For centuries European Christians were in the forefront of sending missionaries to serve in non-Western nations. But within the last 100 years, the centre of gravity of Christianity has shifted to the Southern hemisphere.
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