Jamaica may get high-tech HIV lab
Jamaica could become a centre in viral research and HIV/AIDS if plans by the internationally acclaimed researcher and co-discoverer of the HIV, Dr. Robert Gallo, to establish a state-of-the-art laboratory materialises.
Making the most of your priorities
In the 1920s, Charles Schwab, president of Bethlehem Steel Company in the United States, posed an unusual challenge to Ivy Lee, an efficiency consultant. "Show me a way to get more things done with my time," Schwab said, "and I'll pay you any fee within reason."
Government, Portmore leaders to meet on toll issue
A team set up by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is to meet with community leaders of Portmore on Friday, April 13, to discuss their concerns regarding the Portmore toll. Information Minister Donald Buchanan told The Gleaner on Monday...
UWI professor adds voice to calls for reparation
There has been another call for reparation amid the recent celebrations of the bicentenary abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.The latest call came from Professor Rupert Lewis during his lecture titled: 'The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Reparation...
Link Jamaican and UK school systems - principal
Wentworth Gabbidon, acting principal of the Albert Town high school in Trelawny, says there are aspects of the British education system that could benefit Jamaica. Mr. Gabbidon, who recently completed a three-month fellowship in the United Kingdom, where he examined the British...
Two succumb to stab wounds
A seventy-three-year-old senior citizen is now dead, while a 19-year-old man is in hospital in critical condition following a stabbing incident in Goshen district, St. Elizabeth.The dead man has been identified as Lesburn Wilson, a returning resident, while the teenager is Jason Palmer...
Crash claims one in Trelawny
A 34-year-old motorist was killed and two other persons injured in a crash on the Carey Park main road in Trelawny, yesterday morning.Dead is Kevin Howell of Linstead, St.Catherine, injured are Henry Ford, 41, of Gordon Terrace...
Cindy's original brew flows for charity
The Bustamante Hospital for Children, in St.Andrew, is $25,000 closer to its goal of getting a cat scan for the institution, following Cindy Breakspeare's win at the Forever Young's Celebrity Design-A-Drink Challenge, last Sunday evening.
Prime land for sale in El Paso, Texas
HAVING A secure financial future is a major goal for most Jamaicans, but many regard it is an unattainable dream. One of the surest routes to financial security is investing in land. This time-honoured practice has been proven correct time and again and land is generally regarded...
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