Get the jobs! - Golding administration under pressure to keep campaign promise
Two years after taking the reins of power, the Bruce Golding administration is coming under increasing pressure for its failure to meet its campaign promise of creating hundreds of new jobs. The latest Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll found that seven out...
- Bartender serves up love in her community
- 'Golding can do better' - Jamaicans don't think the PM's administration is doing a good enough job of managing the economy
- 14 VOICES!
- Two years at the helm of West Central St James
- Returning resident escapes road collapse
- Armadale Enquiry - No checks made on whether girls were still alive in burnt-out room - fireman
- Warden for nine years and still enjoying it
- Bungles' criminal record questioned
- Junor now campaign manager
- Residents, SDC fight crime in Newland
- Drawing from the art within
- Breaking News - Integrity Commission boss resigns
- American Airlines to cut 921 jobs
Some schools unprepared for the new academic year
The new school year, which started for some institutions as early as Monday, will find at least one school in the Corporate Area not ready."We did not get any money, so we have not done any painting or anything," Cynthia Cooke, principal of Camperdown High School...
- Time to help our children
- Do-gooders have a bee in their Bonnett
- Probe into malaria payments
- Farmers get millions for agro-ventures
- Government, public libraries working to improve parenting
- Customs staff host back-to-school fête
- From the beach to the streets - Prendy's proprietor caters to less fortunate
- Lewisville High gets expansion
- Lake Garda's fabulous villas and historic villages
- JDF technical graduates encouraged to be the best
- Capacity to tackle disasters bolstered
HBO Latin America gunning for 'pirates' - Files complaint against Flow, Logic One, Telstar
Three of Jamaica's largest cable companies are unlawfully distributing HBO and Cinemax programmes, the owners of the content have alleged in a complaint to the Broadcasting Commission, and an executive of HBO Latin America Group says the company is fed up with years of negotiation...
- Pegasus bid deadline extended - Adviser mum on level of buyer interest
- LIME, Claro in 'cross-rate' agreement to cut charges
- UDC to spend $51b on upscale, other homes for Caymanas
- IMF the only option, says Seaga - Deficit climbs to $52b
- Rum money running out - EU programme to end despite rum-makers plea
- Stanford still hospitalised - Court documents offer new details of scheme
- Brazil given OK to sanction US in cotton row - But denied US$2.5b compensation
- EU countries to phase out standard light bulbs
- Impressing with a good objective statement
Mediation talks break down
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Officials of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the West Indies Players' Association (WIPA) will now pursue arbitration, following the break down of mediation talks aimed at solving the long-running dispute between...
- ... Ramphal disappointed
- Benjamin lashes WICB - Former speedster questions directors' priorities
- Women hunt berth in final
- Maragh notches win in Saratoga Dew Stakes
- Apprentices poised for real action
- Venus struggles with serve, knee, foe at Open
- UEFA bans Eduardo
- Williams' double puts Jamaica in final
- Addlery, Fraser hit target for Islanders
- BRIEFS
EDITORIAL - Move ahead with the casino law
It is unfortunate that having dithered for so long on the issue, Jamaica is unlikely, in the near term, to reap as much benefit from allowing casinos, as might otherwise have been the case. that does not mean that the administration should not proceed...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Finding the economic middle
The Editor, Sir: Economics has always been a delicate balance between consumption and production. The nexus between these two poles has been kept dynamic by obscurities such as people's emotions, political persuasions, dominant philosophies, wars...
- We need leaders of example
- IMF = debt for life, not true
- Rightly put
- Learn to care and share
- Stop blaming Lewin, strengthen laws
- Control oil wealth
- Place athletes, JAAA on contracts
- Love goes only so far
Producing whiz makes 'steely' exit
Wycliffe 'Steely' Johnson, half of the influential production duo Steely and Clevie, has died. The keyboardist, who was in his early 50s, passed away in a New York City hospital yesterday morning. The Gleaner has learnt that Johnson suffered heart failure around 5 a.m. yesterday...
- Tributes to 'Steely'
- Woman power from The Deck
- Get ready for Yes!
- An appealing 'Guitars in Konversation'
- 'Boom Bye Bye' still haunting Buju
- Something extra
Are you male or female?
It is generally believed that the embryo by default is female. Females carry two X chromosomes (XX) among the 23 pairs of chromosomes in each cell. In about the seventh week, the embryonic presence of the Y chromosome (XY) provides instructions for the development...
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