Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Sunday | January 18, 2009
Obama's Caribbean challenge - How will new US president deal with Jamaica and the region?
WITH THE clock racing towards the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States (US), Jamaicans and others around the Caribbean are still looking at the possible impact of America's first African-American leader on the region.
Sugar Company owes suppliers millions
MILLIONS OF dollars owed to companies supplying equipment to the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) might have been responsible for the late start-up of operations at the island's five state-owned sugar factories, The Sunday Gleaner understands.
Obama Inauguaration - Shout-outs to Obama
In two days, the world as we know it will make a seismic shift affecting people all across the planet. Just imagine that out of everyone, you had an opportunity to say something to Barack Obama as he becomes the 44th president of the United States of America! What would you say?
Obama inauguaration: Facing the harsh realities - Glitzy balls, dampened expectations ...
AS IF a dam of frigid air burst on the northern border, a bitter cold front has spilled down from Canada and into Washington - the kind of skin-drying, blister-making, crinkling cold that you have to experience to appreciate (and I don't recommend the experience).
Shelter of love - Marie Atkins shelter provides safe haven
WALTER MITCHELL, a 35-year-old unemployed gardener, says that all he needs to go back home are enough sheets of zinc and pieces of lumber to rebuild his house in Cross Roads, St Andrew, which was destroyed in a fire some years ago. Mitchell is one of over 100 men and women who find solace at the Marie Atkins shelter in downtown Kingston...
Learning from the Seventh-day Adventists
HAVE YOU noticed how rapidly sanctuaries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) are springing up all over Jamaica? It seems you can hardly travel a mile in the island without encountering an SDA sign welcoming you to the particular village or community you are approaching.
Send the schools to church! ... F or moral character building, says Al Miller
DIRECTOR OF the National Transformation Programme (NTP), Reverend Merrick 'Al' Miller, is calling on the Government to entrust the leadership of the nation's primary and basic schools to the church.
