'Cult politics' - Clergyman says party supporters will do anything to show allegiance
Political parties have been labelled as cults by a prominent clergyman, because of the slavish manner in which supporters adhere to party practices. Bishop C.B. Peter Morgan, of City Life Ministries, said yesterday that as a nation there was a need....
More darkness! - Paulwell orders JPS to report daily
Several locations across the island were left without electricity and water yesterday as a result of load-shedding exercises carried out by the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd. (JPS). The power outages caused numerous traffic pileups in the Corporate Area as motorists...
'The Church is a dismal failure'
The Church in Jamaica has fallen short in its efforts to effectively influence the nation and its leaders in pursuing justice, political maturity and the upliftment of the poor. That was the consensus of religious leaders coming out of a Gleaner Editors'...
The ancestors send a message
WESTERN BUREAU: Claiming to be the medium for our ancestors, Yoruba priestess, Dorette Abrahams, said there need to be some crucial changes in the political and economic structure of Jamaica, if the nation's people intend to truly make their forefathers proud....
Cops probe 'political' killings
With general elections scheduled for the end of this month, the police said they were still trying to determine whether five fatal shootings in the Corporate Area last month were politically motivated. Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green, head of the Major Investigations...
45 MILESTONES - 2006: Major strides in medical research
Jamaican biochemist, Dr. Henry Lowe, and his research partner, Dr. Joseph Bryant, of the Institute of Human Virology, announced the discoveryof a cancer drug derived from a pair of endemic Jamaican plants. The drug, Lowe stated, can help cure five cancers, B-16 melanoma, breast cancer...
Politicians go to church
Both Major political party leaders and their proposed candidates for Kingston, St. Andrew and St. Catherine have committed to worshipping this Sunday at the Faith Cathedral Deliverance Centre in Kingston, under an arrangement through the Office of the Political Ombudsman.
Prime Minister's bodyguard faces court today
Cpl. Randolph Mullings, a member of the Prime Minister's security team, is scheduled to appear in the Yallahs Resident Magistrate's Court, in St. Thomas, today. Corporal Mullings' case was put off yesterday, as the judge was absent from court.
Search on for bodies under collapsed Minnesota bridge
MINNEAPOLIS (AP): Divers searched the Mississippi River for bodies still trapped beneath the twisted debris of a collapsed freeway bridge, as finger-pointing began yesterday over a federal report two years ago that found the bridge was "structurally...
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