Prison unrest - Juveniles create chaos at Fort Augusta women's facility - Warder stabbed, another doused with urine, faeces
Two correctional officers had to seek medical attention last evening as a weeklong protest by juveniles at the Fort Augusta women's prison in St Catherine escalated. It is reported that a female officer was stabbed on her hand by one of the irate juveniles...
- Dancehall under attack - Broadcasting Commission sticks to ban on vulgar lyrics
- OGM is No 1 - Decade-old ad agency crowned advertising champion for 2008
- Burning Spear on fire with second Grammy
Taking education back to school
The following are excerpts of a Gleaner Editors' Forum which discussed accountability in education, among other issues. It took place last Wednesday at the newspaper's office...
- Children's advocate supports 'daggerin' ban
- Crime to climb - Economic downturn could worsen crisis
- Many parents failing to discipline kids - pastor
Record tourist arrivals to Jamaica in January - Bartlett links bump to jazz festival
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced a 3.4 per cent increase in visitor arrivals for the month of January, compared with the same period last year. Bartlett said the 138,000 tourists who visited the island last month were the largest number of visitors...
- Nissan to slash 20,000 jobs, cut executive pay
- Former Puerto Rican governor pleads not guilty to corruption
- GM said to be in talks to reclaim Delphi plants
Taylor leaps up rankings
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC):Fast bowler Jerome Taylor's heroics against England on Saturday has propelled him 11 places up the ICC Test-bowling rankings to sixth, his highest-ever spot in international cricket's rating system. The giant leap has put the 24-year-old just behind...
- West Indies selectors drop Marshall
- Fuller may miss rest of season
- Trinidad's Simmons eyeing Test debut
EDITORIAL - Unlock the wealth of the poor
Nearly a decade ago, the Peruvian economist and thinker Hernando de Soto placed persuasively before the world something community activists in developing countries already understood: that the world's poor were not all that poor. What they lacked, particularly poor...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Repeal Minimum Wage Act
The Editor, Sir: Believe it or not, there is more than a spurious link between the existence of a Minimum Wage Act and the recent calls from some quarters to validate, constitutionally, the 'right to strike'. Neither is of benefit to the Jamaican worker in the context...
There's something about 'yard'
BRITISH MEDIA created a buzz last week when it reported that troubled singer Amy Winehouse was considering coming to Jamaica to record her third album.Winehouse, a five-time Grammy Award winner, is known for her retro soul sound and beehive hairstyle...