Farmers expect much from Tufton
Small farmers in parts of Clarendon have started to air their expectations to the newly appointed Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Christopher Tufton. Most of the farmers who told The Gleaner that they have been in the business of farming for more than three decades...
Newsmaker: Walker, Buchanan grab spotlight in election post-mortem - Not backing down
When the 2007 General Election is chronicled, the names Danville Walker and Donald Buchanan are likely to figure prominently. Walker, the affable director of elections, and Buchanan, the no-holds-barred general secretary of the People's National Party...
Poor test rate for prostate - Jamaican men leaving themselves at risk for cancer
Saying that it was challenging to get Jamaican men to test for prostate cancer, Earl Jarrett, chairman of the Jamaica Cancer Society, yesterday called for greater awareness of the disease. Speaking during a sponsors' luncheon for The Gleaner's Healthy Men magazine ...
Trailer theft a blow to hurricane relief
Relief efforts in the community of Portland Cottage in Clarendon took a blow on Sunday morning, when residents woke up to discover that a trailer with building supplies had disappeared from the community under the cloak of nightfall. The 40-foot trailer...
McCalla moves to shorten trials
The huge backlog of cases in the courts is of concern to Chief Justice Zaila McCalla and she will be taking immediate steps to implement the criminal case management conference, which was recommended by the Justice Reform Task Force....
Fairclough takes judiciary to task
WESTERN BUREAU:Veteran attorney-at-law Roy Fairclough has expressed concern at the number of cases transferred to the St.James Circuit Court, by way of voluntary bills, issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions. According to the lawyer, he was "mourning the state of affairs...
Million-dollar sponsorship for Violence Prevention Alliance
The Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) Foundation has announced a $3 million sponsorship commitment to the Jamaica Chapter of the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), with a special cheque presentation held at the Courtleigh Hotel on Tuesday,...
'Fixed election date should factor in hurricanes, holidays'
The Constitution should be amended to allow a fixed election date, factoring in matters such as the hurricane season, closeness to established national holidays and school holidays, according to Attorney-At-Law Keith Smith. Addressing members of the executive ...
CARICOM leaders declare war on chronic diseases
The Heads of government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have approved a comprehensive programme to unite the region to stop the epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). At the end of their special one-day summit in Port-of-Spain on Saturday...
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