Fearful future - Religious leaders predict mixed bag for Jamaica in 2007
ONLY TIME will tell what 2007 holds, but if you believe in prophecy, look for a mixed bag. Pastor Phillip Phinn of the Word of Life Ministries International, based on Maxfield Avenue, Kingston, and Bishop Delford Davis, of Power of Faith Ministries...
First gun for 2007 found in St James
WESTERN BUREAU: The St. James police started the new year on a positive note following a raid which yielded its first gun find for 2007 yesterday morning. Reports are that, about 6:00 a.m. on Monday, the Granville police, acting on information...
As 2007 starts, jobs may lift stocks
NEW YORK (Reuters): When Wall Street returns to work after New Year's Day, stock investors will be in the mood to buy - that is if manufacturing and jobs data show modest growth. After the U.S. stock market's surge in 2006...
Natural Desire leaves most fans dissatisfied
NATURAL DESIRE, a late 5-2 plunge, yesterday landed the gamble for trainer Lawrence Freemantle by outbattling 3-5 favourite AD INFINITUM to win the 11-furlong CTL Fan Appreciation Day Trophy race for Overnight Allowance horses.
EDITORIAL - Propensity to violence
Although the police say that they will have to await the findings of a DNA analysis to declare definitively on the identities of the two bodies discovered last weekend at a Mandeville landfill, they appear more than reasonably certain...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Cockpit group ready to meet Cabinet subcommittee
The Editor, Sir: Kindly publish this response to The Gleaner article of December 27, 'Davis suggests management system for Cockpit Country'. The Cockpit Country Stakeholders' Group (CCSG) is heartened by the interest shown by the media...
'Cutie and the Freak': Unconditional love
At a time when love is superficial and Hollywood defines ideals of beauty, Cutie and the Freak explores unconditional love in the most odd of places. A remake of the fairytale Beauty and the Beast, Patrick Brown's Cutie and the Freak...
SwimJamaica instructors get youth in the water
Where can you mix business with pleasure? How many of us can actually say we have great job satisfaction? How many of us have jobs that make us want to jump out of bed in the morning and rush to work? I am willing to bet not many.
CUBA: Ailing Castro sends New Year's message
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): In a New Year's message, ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Saturday he was recovering slowly from abdominal surgery and thanked his people for their courage during his recuperation.
SOMALIA: Coalition troops drive out Islamists
KISMAYU (Reuters): Defeated Somali Islamists fled their defences near a southern town and headed towards the Kenyan border yesterday in what looked like the end of a nearly two-week war with the Ethiopian-backed government.
