Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Thursday | June 11, 2009
A home for Miss Joyce
Think it's time to once again remind readers of this column's objective. Through this weekly column, we seek to inspire Jamaicans to become more helpful to one another and to be more willing to see challenges as opportunities for success rather than recipes... Read More...
'Board Villa' fire victims plead for help
Thirteen-year-old Convent of Mercy (Alpha Academy) student Jodi-Ann Brownmissed school yesterday. She will also miss school today and could be missing tomorrow - 48 hours before her end-of-year examinations begin. But Jodi-Ann has no option after her uniforms... Read More...
Thwaites wants Gov't to get tougher on smokers
AT LEAST one parliamentarian is agitating for the makers of tobacco to depict, in bold letters and pictures, information on what he said was the "indisputable medical truth that smoking causes impotence". Read More...
Farmer Greg's brother remanded
The brother of 32-year-old Greg Gordon, popularly known as 'Farmer Greg', appeared yesterday in the Gun Court section of the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.Magnus Mullings, 23, who is charged with the murder of his brother... Read More...
Issa gave tourism life with new idea
JAMAICA WAS on the proverbial knife's edge in 1976. The Government declared a State of Emergency in June to stem crime and political violence, a strategy that not only affected citizens but also crippled the economy. Throughout the turmoil, hotelier John Issa... Read More...
Maxwell Maxwell surprised at receiving honorary degree
WHEN JOHN Maxwell first heard that he will receive an honorary degree from the University of the West Indies (UWI) this year, he said he was surprised. "Honorary degrees are not usually given to people who are thought of as rebels," he said, laughing... Read More...
Minnie Mae Clarke - Huge send-off for veteran politician
Scores of mourners, headed by Opposition Leader Portia Simpson-Miller and other members of the top brass of the People's National Party (PNP), as well as members of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), packed the Spaldings Seventh-day Adventist Church on Sunday... Read More...
Gone but not forgotten
THE HEAVY rains could not prevent the scores of family, friends and well-wishers paying tribute for the life of Colliston Darell Bonitto at the Edgewater Baptist Church, St Catherine, on Saturday, May 2, 2009. Bonitto died on April... Read More...
DR IVAN VAN SERTIMA - A grand farewell to an intellectual tour de force
"We have come to reclaim the house of history."With those few words, Dr Ivan Sertima, a linguist, literary critic and anthropologist, fired a major salvo at the myths that surround the role of people of African descent in human civilisation... Read More...
Travis Johnson - A truly honourable man
The following is a tribute to Travis Johnson, former Jamaica Diaspora United Kingdom Advisory Board representative, from Jamaican High Commissioner to the UK, Burchell Whiteman. Johnson died on Tuesday... Read More...
Thursdaytalk - HOTTEST TOPICS ON COCKTAIL CIRCUIT
Due diligence 1. Some are complaining that too many individuals and/or companies are allowed to perpetrate fraud on unsuspecting members of the public because some in the media do not do their due diligence... Read More...
