Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Tuesday | December 30, 2008
'God saved her' - Two-year-old survived four days without food, water
Residents of Denham Town and surrounding communities are describing as a major miracle the revelation that an abandoned two-year-old child survived for four days without food and water. Medical authorities say it is not unusual for an abandoned child to survive for this period...
Police get flak for abandoned child
Residents of Goffe Way in Denham Town, west Kingston, are angry with the police over what they say was a failure to protect a two-year-old girl they claim was left by her mother to die. Nineteen-year-old Nicolette Ledford was yesterday detained under the Child Care ...
Children's advocate seeks answers from mother
Children's Advocate Mary Clarke says she wants to meet with the mother who left her child in an abandoned building to determine what was going through her mind. The infant was reportedly tied up and left in the building on Spanish Town Road in Kingston ...
Remaining Jamaicans to leave Canadian mushroom farm
The remaining 39 Jamaicans currently employed on a Canadian mushroom farm could be sent home ahead of schedule, joining 23 workers who came back to the island earlier this month.The Jamaicans who have been working at Rolland Farms in Ontario saw their jobs placed in jeopardy ...
One in a million
"You are one in a million!" Such was the adoration bestowed on Dhaima Brookes by Valerie Juggan-Brown, group managing director of Guardsman Limited, when Brookes stepped into the security firm's offices in St Andrew yesterday....
Police group welcomes ceasefire initiative
One police group has welcomed a call from the National Transformation Programme (NTP) for a national ceasefire during which there would be no murders for the month of January. The Police Officers Association (POA), which represents the officer corps...
