Haiti pull-out - Soaring costs halting Gov't's quake relief efforts
FACED WITH a ballooning price tag, and with promised financial assistance slow in coming, the Government has decided to pull the plug on elements of its relief efforts in Haiti. Less than 72 hours after The Gleaner first reported that financial challenges could force Jamaica to withdraw...

Clarendon boy is King Bee
STUDENTS IN the Spelling Bee audience became restless as words like 'pedagogy' and 'judicature' were thrown around. A man's forehead became shiny with sweat in the air-conditioned ballroom and a woman exhaled with a smile on her face ...

'The show must go on'
DESPITE THE death of its founder and creative force, Rex Nettleford, the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC) will soldier on with its annual season in July.Bridgett Spaulding, NDTC's secretary/treasurer, told The Gleaner yesterday...

Boy from Bunkers Hill
Western Bureau:After hours of searching for individuals who knew Rex Nettleford in his hometown of Bunkers Hill in Trelawny, only two persons could recall their encounters with him.An affable senior citizen, Rex Minto, who...

Remembering Rex Nettleford, 1933-2010
Tributes have been flowing in for one of Jamaica's greatest cultural icons, Professor Rex Nettleford, since news broke of his passing on Tuesday night. Nettleford excelled as an academic, cultural activist, historian and remained an unapologetic regionalist...

Students silently mourn
THERE'S A sombre mood at the Rex Nettleford Hall at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, in light its patron's sudden passing.The sadness is especially felt by Student Services and Development Manager Donna Mae Jackson, who worked...