PILL UNDER PRESSURE - Local companies blocked from selling cheap, life-saving drug
JAMAICAN pharmaceutical company, Indies Pharma, is gearing up for a court battle with international drug-manufacturing giant, Pfizer-USA, over local distribution of hypertension medication used by thousands of Jamaicans living with the debilitating illness.
- A woman's years of travail - Abuse victim speaks out
- Youths pledge to 'take back' Jamaica
- Sex education for tots
Hypertensive and suffering - Patients can't afford vital medication
A DIRT track makes its way to the door leading into the tiny one-bedroom board house that provides a sanctuary for 51-year-old hypertensive Claude Campbell of Martin Castle in Hanover.
- Non-communicable diseases on the rise
- Helping advertisers achieve in a crisis
- Generation Lost - Military dreams destroyed
Sagicor shuffles managers - Creates group marketing unit with Pan Caribbean
Sagicor Life Jamaica has shuffled the portfolios of several executives, having cut 10 management positions last week, and has gone a step further to merge its marketing functions with subsidiary Pan Caribbean Financial Services, creating in the process a group corporate communications unit that Tanya Miller will oversee.
- Italian investor eyes Frome - Jamaicans going after other SCJ assets
- Insurers dance to own 'POCA' beat
- Hungry for consumer credit? 24 card options available
Player boycott looms; Gayle: We need to have these matters resolved
Chris Gayle has indicated that players on the West Indies team are prepared to boycott the fifth and final one-day international against England next Friday in St Lucia, if outstanding issues with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) remain unsettled.
- Third title for 'Poppy' Thomas
- Last four clash in 'St Bess'
- 'Call Tyrone': Fledgling MLS teams bank on Jamaica's Marshall
EDITORIAL - Have they heard that there's a crisis?
A decade ago, in the aftermath of Jamaica's last gas-price riots, a committee headed by Peter Moses, who was then the president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, suggested new approaches to the Government's Budget process.
LETTER OF THE DAY - 'Misleading report on history lecture'
The Editor, Sir: It was with dismay that I read the reportage of my lecture last Tuesday, March 24, in The Gleaner. It is in part inaccurate and consequently, misleading.
Calabash revived - Organisers secure government and private sponsorship
Former prime minister Edward Seaga will get a chance to read excerpts from his colourful and fascinating memoirs; author Anthony Winkler can worship the spoken word, and lovers of the literary arts have permission to salivate in a brotherhood of cultures.
- Take Me Away provides 'Three The Hard Way'
- 'Remember The Days' looks back at better times
- No Jamaican movies for the children
Sunday Sauce - None of that fertiliser for me!
Just when we thought the stench created by the orange one was dissipating, he stirred up the mess some more, recently, by saying the Government should stop importing the smelly fertiliser and use that which he and his nemesis have been producing.
- Excerpt from the Jamaica Journal - For love of the game!
- Shiver me timbers! Pirate novel a treasure chest of fun
- Literary arts - Remembering Sylvia
Wine '09 for a good cause
Michelle Daswani, incoming president of the Rotary Club of Montego Bay, will zero in on addicts who have become slaves to drugs. Daswani, several sponsors and over 400 patrons laid the groundwork for this project last Saturday...
America veers left
A landmark study just published in the United States finds that "Our country is embracing many core progressive values and shows a real commitment to a progressive vision of government, international affairs and economic and political values that could transform the country in a way that has not been seen since FDR and the New Deal."
Taxi-bike confessions
They boldly go where taxicabs fear to travel. Up and down they traverse along neglected pathways taking their human cargoes to their destinations. Meet the 'bike taxis'. Serving the rural parishes of Hanover and Westmoreland, these illegal mode of public transportation made their appearances decades ago.