Back home - Missing child returns after three years on the streets
After going missing almost three years ago, 17-year-old Omar Dennis brought surprise and joy to his family this week when he suddenly returned home."Mi just thank God him alive and come back home safe," Rhona Henry, the boy's mother, told The Gleaner yesterday...
- Party in Washington! - Jamaicans, Caribbean nationals position to watch
- Corrupt officials should be brought to book - Hewitt
- Air Jamaica staff put on redundancy alert
Air Jamaica on time, sometimes
The good thing about websites like flightstats.com is that if you need to travel, you may avoid having to suffer ridiculously long delays. The bad thing, however, which really is no fault of the website, is that the numbers often reflect too poorly...
- CAC releases retail store survey
- Competitive prices keep shoppers coming to Duhaney Park retailer
- No tax on gas - Thwaites
Loshusans selling a piece of Sovereign - Investing in new grocery business - Progressive group developing commercial complex
Owners of the Sovereign Manor Park supermarket are negotiating the sale of the business as a going concern, freeing the Loshusan brothers who own it to pursue separate ventures, one of which is the transformation of a massive property on Washington...
- INTRALOT acquires 80m shares in SVL
- Supreme Ventures sued over debt repayment
- Robert Drummond in command - FGFS restructures in search of larger market share
T&T test for Jamaica
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Daren Ganga will be looking for a belated birthday gift when he leads Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) against holders Jamaica in a crucial second-round match of the WICB regional four-day competition, starting today at the Queen's Park Oval....
EDITORIAL - Dissolve and reconstitute education ministry
For the current fiscal year, before any adjustment that will come in the supplementary estimates - which will most likely be upwards - the Government's budget for education is $58.3 billion. Or, think of it this way: each week, the education ministry has a budget of over $1.12 billion...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Commish should hold himself accountable
The Editor, Sir: Commissioner of Police Hardley Lewin, at his press conference on January 13, challenged a member of the public to speak to human rights bodies to find out if numbers of extrajudicial killings by the police were increasing, decreasing, or remaining the same...
Stephen Marley gets soulful on 'Acoustic' album
Album: Mind Control Acoustic Artiste: Stephen MarleyGenre: ReggaeRating: 5 out of 5 starsIt says a lot about an artiste when he can release a 'simpler' version of a Grammy award-winning album and it sounds even more soulful than the original.
Moore than a birthday party!
It was supposed to be a surprise birthday party, but with all the text messages sent out, birthday girl Sharon Millwood-Moore was more than a little suspicious of the whole affair.
MIDDLE EAST - Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP): Israel shelled the United Nations (UN) headquarters in the Gaza Strip yesterday, engulfing the compound and a warehouse in fire and destroying thousands of pounds of food and humanitarian supplies intended for Palestinian refugees...