Top marks - Team members describe how cops, soldiers defused hijack
Western Bureau: As accolades continued to pour in for the security forces, the men who carried out the mission in which 21-year-old hijacker Stephen Fray was apprehended and his hostages rescued without injury said yesterday the merit of their training in a situation...
- Jamaica-Canada bond proves strong as hostages return home
- Canadian PM's visit a success, say officials
- Wrong number helps woman make right decision - Suicidal mom benefits from the kindness of strangers
Chevelle's passion for excellence
Chevelle Franklyn is recognised as an outstanding reggae gospel artiste and an international award-winning musician. She began her career in the music industry as a teenager when she recorded her first single...
- Shortage of jurors delays murder trial
- Seeking unconventional work
- When peace came - Three decades later, a country awaits its return
Ex-Im, EFJ holdouts in Walkerswood deal - Rescue syndicate hunts 90% share - May 1 deadline for relaunch
The consortium leading the rescue of spice maker Walkerswood still has two roadblocks to hurdle, and is now engaged in negotiations with, it appears, two former financiers of the St Ann-based company. Ian Garbutt's Associated Manufacturers Limited (AML) and Facey family-controlled...
- Date for Canada talks to be decided in one month
- Red Stripe to oversee Diageo's regional market
- Forestry Department courts private sector
Juniors excite swimming TD
National swimming technical director, Jackie Walter, believes the prospects of the island's top youngsters are good, given their decent showing at the XXIII Carifta Swimming Championships. The championships ended on Monday in Aruba, with Jamaica placing fifth overall...
- Jamaica ready to retain title
- MVP secret... Track club mum on Powell's non-participation at UTech Classic
- Simmons gets ton
EDITORIAL - Fixing airport security
It is Jamaica's good fortune that Sunday night's attempted aircraft hijacking at Montego Bay's Sangster International Airport ended relatively peacefully without injury or death to any of the nearly 160 Canadians who were held aboard the CanJet aeroplane...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Students' Loan Bureau interest rate is too high
The Editor, Sir:I read with awe in The Gleaner of April 19, where Jamaican students accrue interest rate from the Students' Loan Bureau at a rate of up to 16 per cent, while students in in Barbados pay five per cent and Trinidad and Tobago 4.5 per cent...
Jamaica Music Museum being revitalised
At last Thursday evening's symposium to announce a list of top 100 Jamaican popular songs at the University of the West Indies, Mona's Undercroft, Herbie Miller brought the large audience "peace, love and harmonious greetings from the revitalised Jamaica Music Museum (JAMM)"...
Tanny hits a milestone!
These days, Tanica Plummer can hardly contain her excitement. Less than two weeks ago, she hit her never-before-achieved 200-pound weight target. "Ms Thompson, I am so excited!" she was screaming on the telephone. "I have always said that if I could reach 200 pounds...
CUBA - Tourist arrivals up
HAVANA, CMC: Cuba recorded a two per cent increase in tourist arrivals during the first three months of this year, according to official figures published yesterday.The National Statistics Office (ONE) said a total of 809,937 tourists...