Relief at last
The bulk of the Government's stimulus package to cushion the blow from a global financial downturn to crucial sectors of the Jamaican economy takes effect today. Top of the list is a break for wage earners who will pay less for income tax effective today...
- Jobless urged to stop being worrywarts
- Which jobs are recession-proof? - Health care, engineering, filmmaking among stable industries, experts say
- Staying afloat this year
- Lost a job
Prophecies for 2009
The Word of the Lord given through Apostle Steve Lyston, Prophetess Bishop Doris Hutchinson, Prophetess Sophia Kerr-Dawes and Prophetess Triciana Simpson.Let us recognise that '9' (nine) is the number of 'gestation, production and matured development,...
- New year's messages - Preserve our indigenous resources
- New policies to help Jamaica in '09
- A call for unity
- Housing ministry to pilot Rhyne Park project
- Pregnant woman, others killed
- JAG Smith's political life
- They left behind footprints
SEC acts on credit default swaps
The Securities and Exchange Commission took a step last week toward a new system of central clearinghouses for credit default swaps, complex investments traded globally that have been partly blamed for the financial crisis...
- Milk the meal budget, CAC urges consumers - Food for thought in 2009
- Gov't employee gets off drug rap
Lightning strikes again - Eurosport names Bolt Sports Personality of the Year
PARIS, France (CMC):Eurosport has named Jamaica's super sprinter, Usain Bolt, its 2008 Sports Personality of the Year, for his enthralling victories at the Beijing Olympics in August. Bolt stories are continuing to flood the international media as they did in August...
- Rain bails out struggling West Indies
- Visa woes, money problems hit national hockey team
- Portmore hammer Rivoli
- Ride with The Guardian
- Bravo pleased with Classic hundred
- Barbados name strong squad
- Prosper,Kew to kick off tourney
- Celtics continue losing slide
- Wallace looking to spin his way into WI team
- Nadal, Federer to start in Abu Dhabi
- Sri Lanka see off fighting Bangladesh
EDITORIAL - A call to bold leadership
Usually, nothing fundamental is changed from the 24 hours preceding the start of one day, the past week, the past fortnight or the past month. But no matter how bad things were, the start of a new year tends to bring with it a sense of optimism that somehow things...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Police officers and the 'daggering' in May Pen
The Editor, Sir:This is an open letter to the commander, Area Three Police - Clarendon.Dear Sir:Please bear with me as I relate an experience that I had on December 25, as I travelled through the Frankfield square....
- Religious genocide
- Another Gloudon pantomime?
- What about other children?
- Deportees and sociological purging
- Deplorable cruelty to animals
Kingston Parish Church concert delights
Because the goal of Sunday's concert at The Church of St Thomas the Apostle (popularly called Kingston Parish Church) was to raise funds, there may be some hesitancy on the part of organisers to deem the event an overall success. It attracted, after all, less than a half-full church...
- 'Caught in the Net': funny to the bone
- 'Tata' dies at 68
- Recession hits New Year's Eve celebrations
- Atlanta school gets US$365,000 from Oprah
And the winners are ...
One of the staples of a Jamaican Christmas menu, the fruitcake, made an appearance in varied forms at the offices of The Gleaner Company on Wednesday, December 17. The creators of the beautiful table-toppers, the nine finalists in The Gleaner/Red Label Wine ...
UNITED STATES - Blagojevich shocks many with Senate appointment
CHICAGO (AP): The governor of Illinois created a new distraction for his state by making an appointment to the United States Senate even while he faces federal corruption charges, accused of trying to sell the very seat he now is trying to fill...
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