What happened along Miracle Close
One day in April, last year, at about 1:00 p.m. Roshane Johnson is on his verandah along Miracle Close, off the Gordon Town main road, St. Andrew, minding his own business. Along comes a barefooted elderly woman, who expresses an interest in the breadfruits on a tree in his yard.
Broadcasting group wants CPTC merger
With the Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica (PBCJ) - a state entity - seemingly struggling to establish itself, an influential voice in the field is recommending that it be merged with a more established entity - the Creative Production and Training Centre...
EDITORIAL - Policing the airwaves
The renewed push by the Broadcasting Commission to clean up the airwaves, as reported in yesterday's Sunday Gleaner, will no doubt be welcomed by persons concerned about the increasing incidents of gratuitous violence, profanity and soft porn in prime time...
LETTERS OF THE DAY - Not all deportees are criminals
The Editor, Sir: One of the main drawbacks to successful resettlement and positive contribution is the stigmatisation and marginalisation of deportees. This is an impediment to the reorientation process, and the Government should do more to raise the expectation...
Empty 'Retro Re-Loaded'
There are a few signs that a party at Mas Camp is in crowd trouble. Lack of crowd trouble. And on Saturday night, all the signs were there for 'Retro Re-Loaded'. The first is no cars on the sidewalk on Oxford Road, New Kingston, along which The Gleaner hustled past midnight.
Byron battles cancer of the bladder
When the leader of Jamaica's most popular band Byron Lee was stricken with cancer of the bladder in October last year, his 50-year music career was put on hold. But, when a man discovers blood in his urine, it is not to be taken lightly. After he visited urologist...
PAKISTAN - Rainstorms kill hundreds
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP):A pre-monsoon thunderstorm knocked down houses, severed electrical cables and killed 228 people in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, officials said yesterday. The toll from Saturday's high winds and rain rose after 185 more bodies were counted...
