Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Saturday | December 27, 2008
Child's play in the garden - Families celebrate Christmas despite tough year
Closing out a year when more than 60 children were murdered, hundreds of families esterday poured out to the Christmas Kiddiefest at Hope Gardens, St Andrew, to enjoy the Boxing Day activity.
Jarrett calls for more road safety initiatives
Earl Jarrett, chairman of the Jamaica Automobile Association (JAA), is expressing concern about the escalating death toll from road accidents and road-safety issues.
Detection system will work - Walker
KINGSTON, (JIS):Commissioner of Customs, Danville Walker, said the investment made by Government in the security and detection systems at the ports of entry is yielding results.Speaking in the wake of the seizure of 15...
Closed-circuit cameras to hit May Pen's streets
Closed-circuit cameras will be fully operational on the streets of May Pen, Clarendon next Tuesday as the Government steps up its effort to fight crime in the parish.On Tuesday, Minister of Transport and Works Mike Henry is to be joined in May Pen by...
Repent! Churches to ask politicians to say they are sorry
Buoyed by the promise a new year offers, and in an attempt to heal deep division in the island, the National Transformation Programme is embarking upon a campaign to get the nation's leaders to...
UWI hands over nine scholarships
Six outstanding postgraduate students from the University of the West Indies (UWI) were on Monday presented with the 60th Anniversary Mona Scholarship awards for their contribution to research.
Craft institute grows from strength to strength
Since the pre-colonial era and even more so after Independence, Jamaica has had, to its credit, many skills training institutions in the business of seeking to "radically transform" the lives of youth through the acquisition of special disciplines that eventually result...
