Lightning Bolt returns
Sprint wunderkind Usain Bolt will be welcomed with a lavish motorcade and reception when he returns to Jamaica today for the first time since his heroics at the Beijing Olympics last month.Prime Minister Bruce Golding, Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller and Sports Minister Olivia Grange ...
Rain pain again - Jamaica on storm watch as Ike pummels Caribbean
Jamaicans are bracing for more heavy rains after the Meteorological Service yester-day issued a tropical storm watch for the island as Hurricane Ike continued its trail of blood and destruction through the northern Caribbean...
700-pound Clarendon ganja haul
Operation Kingfish put another dent in the illicit drugs-for-guns trade yesterday, hauling in more than 700lb of compressed ganja and two 45-gallon drums of fuel along the island's south coast.A Toyota Probox motor car, loaded with the drugs...
Call for cops to spend more time with students
The Ministry of Education is examining the possibility of increasing the contact hours that school resource officers (SROs) have with students.SROs are law enforcement officers strategically placed, under the Safe Schools...
JC boot camp a Success - principal
Jamaica College, a school that had serious problems with delinquency, has transformed into a model institution, says principal Ruel Reid. "The boys have turned around. My school does not have a disciplinary problem," Reid told The Gleaner...
Parents urged to get on board
A cleric has challenged parents to take a more proactive approach to child rearing and partner with school administrators in maintaining student performance. Speaking at yesterday's church service to commemorate the National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica's second anniversary...
60-y-o Gustav hero helps save lucky seven
With a seething underbelly of violence and foundations built on impermeable soil, living on the banks of the McGregor Gully in southeast St Andrew is literally a disaster waiting to happen. Yet, for many of the residents, no force of nature has had as devastating ...
A healthy nation is a productive nation - Al Miller
"Love your body, treat your body right," sang the congregation at the Fellowship Tabernacle, St Andrew, yesterday. The Ministry of Health was at the church to inform worshippers about 'Caribbean Wellness Day'...
More attack advertisements surface
Two more attack advertisements aimed at Portia Simpson Miller and her team have hit the Internet as the battle for the top job in the People's National Party (PNP) heats up.The ads are again from the yet to be identified Comrades For Change, which was responsible ...
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