Jamaica Gleaner News- Lead Stories - Friday

Student patrols - Police target delinquents in Kingston

The police were kept busy in downtown Kingston yesterday morning trying to round up students who were seemingly prepared to miss school for the day. After more than an hour, the police held nine girls and a boy - dressed in uniform - from one high school, who were absconding....

TRAIL OF THE MISSING SAND - More pieces to the sand puzzle

Fishermen coasting along a Trelawny shoreline late one June night spotted men loading sand into trucks on a vacant beach. As they inched closer, they could see a police car and a front-end loader busy at work. They could not understand how the popular property owner, a Rastaman...

As economic crises deepens...Lives may go up in smoke

Health professionals have raised concern that more persons could engage in tobacco smoking to ease their minds amid the global economic crisis.This could mean more problems with nutrition. "The quick fix is that when we are under pressure we light up...

'Graphic images on cigarette boxes could curb smoking'

An anti-tobacco lobbyist is suggesting that the placing of graphic images on cigarette boxes depicting the likely health impact of smoking would help to curb the practice in Jamaica.Many other countries have started the initiative to discourage...

Judge rules Dabdoub out of order

There were fireworks from the bench at the appeal hearing yesterday in the dual citizenship case involving People's National Party candidate Abe Dabdoub and Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz. President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Seymour Panton, described...

Golden Age Home appeals to Gov't for help

THE 25-YEAR-old Golden Age Home is running out of cash to fund its operations for the remainder of the current financial year.With 440 homeless elderly persons under its care, the home has appealed to the Department of Local Government to provide an additional $27 million...

Expats angered by terrorist attacks in India

The effects of the orchestrated terrorist attacks in Mumbai - the financial capital of India - is being felt among the Indian expatriate population in Jamaica. "This is an unfortunate and dastardly act, we are shocked and condemn this senseless violence...

KING SUGAR'S SHAKY CROWN - Tufton shies away fromdivestment back-up plan

While Jamaica Sugar Cane Growers' Association Chairman Allan Rickards says he has a fallback plan if divestment talks with Brazilian company Infinity Bio-Energy flounder, Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is remaining mum on the issue....