Jamaica Gleaner News- Lead Stories - Monday

Thieves outwit Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) - Despite new security measures, wily homeowners tap into power lines

Months after introducing a new mechanism to clamp down on electricity theft, crafty householders have still managed to tap into power sources, the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has reported. The electricity provider had started to install concentric neutral cables ...

Corruption hotline

NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Colonel Trevor MacMillan has announced plans to set up a secure telephone number, geared towards increasing citizen trust, to root out corrupt policemen.The minister said that the offshore toll-free telephone line ...

Forced to flee

Hundreds of residents in Tredegar Park, a community on the outskirts of Spanish Town, St Catherine, yesterday fled their homes after receiving an ultimatum from gunmen to leave. From as early as 11 a.m., residents from an enclave called Gravel Heights ...

'Afghanistan may become Obama's Vietnam'

John Fisher Burns, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has labelled the war in Afghanistan the biggest challenge that will face the administration of United States President-elect Barack Obama. Burns, addressing the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ)...

José's pride and joy

SPANISH TOWN: José Marti Technical High is now basking in the glory of one of its celebrated scholars. Zori-Ann Rhoden, 19, was recently named Jamaica's top achiever in agricultural science in the 2008 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate exams...