The Weekly Gleaner back issues from January 2006:
DCP Shields tours war-torn areas
Jan 05, 2006 ... POLICE ARE carrying out a number of initiatives to reduce violence in South St. Andrew communities, Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shields revealed on Saturday, December 31, during a two-hour tour of the constituency. There has already been a significant increase in police presence ...
Kingfish raids MoBay businessman's home
Jan 05, 2006; ... THE POLICE on Thursday, December 29, seized a 9mm Sig Sauer firearm and documents from the home of Montego Bay businessman Norman 'Shampoo' Dion during an Operation Kingfish-led raid in Coral Gardens, St. James. "We will be trying to ascertain whether the firearm is licensed ...It was ...
Investigators to question Plummer family about fire
Jan 05, 2006 ... THE DEKALB COUNTY fire investigators in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, December 28, said they plan to interview the Plummer family sometime next week in an effort to determine the cause of the fire that claimed three members of the family on December 22. In an exclusive interview with ...
Dancing into 2006; MoBay welcomes New Year in style
Jan 05, 2006; ... THEY CAME in glitters, sequined, jewelled neckline tops, and suits, hundreds of them, from far and near. Some from as far as Denmark, England, Canada and Hungary - all to ring in the New Year at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel Gala New Year party on Saturday night. Thomazina Flash, 97, ...
Aspects of Kraal aftermath
Jan 05, 2006 ... ECHOES OF the Kraal murder trial linger on as year 2005 peters out. So do the almost daily reports of killings which have given this small island a murder rate among the highest in the world. Of more mundane concern is the prospect that the year 2006 will see the selection of a new ...
EU changes leave bitter taste
Jan 05, 2006; ... I FEEL more contempt than anger at the behaviour of the European Union (EU) in deciding to go ahead with changes to its sugar regime which will brutally affect the livelihood and lives of millions of people in small, vulnerable developing African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) ...
Fully 'Committed' at King's House
Jan 05, 2006 ... THERE WERE handclaps for showtime an hour after the slated 8:00 p.m. start, and protests when 90 minutes, Jah Glory, Richie Stephens and Gregory Isaacs later, MC Francois St. Juste announced intermission. And when Third World delivered Now That We've Found Love and Lagos Jump to anchor Junior ...
Who a di king?
Jan 05, 2006; ... KING YELLOWMAN once again declared that he was the real king of dancehall and did not mince words cursing other artistes who have been staking claim to the title. The deejay was performing at Stars R Us at Fayor's Entertainment Centre in Mandeville, Manchester on Monday night, December ...
MoBay outfit ends Kgn leg of bands competition
Jan 05, 2006; ... WHEN THE Jumanji band took the stand at The Deck, Trafalgar Road, New Kingston, on Wednesday night, the uniformly dressed outfit which supported Brian Brown was a link between Jamaica's two cities. The first leg of the competition to win a chance to perform at the Air Jamaica Jazz and ...
Cultivator of souls
Jan 05, 2006; ... HE IS in the newspapers, on television and radio, and his voice is often heard in public discourse on farming. But Senator Norman Grant is more than an agricultural spokesman. As a clergyman, he is also a cultivator of souls. Corporate Jamaica knows him to be the CEO of the Mavis Bank ...
An intimate Biggie
Jan 05, 2006 ... OTHER BOOKS have been written about the rap artiste Biggie, but none presents as intimate a portrait of the man as the one written by his mother Voletta Wallace. Wallace's book is as much an autobiography as it is a biography. She begins her story in Jamaica where she explains about her early ...
MoBay Cricket Club 2005 Awards Ceremony
Jan 05, 2006; ... A LARGE number of family, friends and fans turned out in good numbers recently to honour their sporting heroes, at the annual awards ceremony held at the trendy Club Eclipse in Newark, New Jersey. MoBay, which became the first club to repeat as double champions, was the toast of the ...
The transit strike; A lesson in race, power and politics
Jan 05, 2006; ... LIKE MOST other New Yorkers I have been gravely affected by the transit strike and for what it is doing to this city. But maybe not for the same reasons as most other people who have not grasped the real issues at hand. Even so, I can no longer sit idly by and maintain observer status as the ...
Royal Caribbean Bakery's retiree
Jan 05, 2006 ... WHEN SOMEONE has been a special part of your life for so long, it makes it very difficult to see them leave. Eventually, they become like your second family. Mr. Selburn Dacres, "Selly" has been a very instrumental part of the growth of Royal Caribbean Bakery for over 20 years and is retiring ...
Lenford Neveins; Rastaman meets untimely death
Jan 05, 2006 ... RASTAFARIAN LENFORD Neveins, of St John's Town district in St Thomas, met a tragic and untimely death. He was a road construction worker and was on the job when he was hit by a tractor. He died nine-and-a-half weeks later, on December 2 at the Kingston Public Hospital. Mr ....
Lillian Walker; A calm influence still in memory
Jan 05, 2006; ... LILLIAN WALKER of Stock Farm Road, Golden Spring, St. Andrew, was a very concerned mother of three. Her children will never forget the calming influence she had on their lives. She was their role model. She feared God and brought up her children accordingly. "She loved her ...
top QUOTES in the year 2005
Jan 05, 2006 ... ATHLETICS "This goes to show that no one knows how fast a man can run" - Jamaican Asafa Powell after he unexpectedly lowered the world record in Athens in June to 9.77 seconds. SOCCER: "I AM in the news every day. I think they really like my overcoat, they really like my ...
PM unveils Ottey statue
Jan 05, 2006; ... THE STATUE of Jamaica's most decorated female sprinter, Merlene Ottey, was unveiled by Prime Minister P.J. Patterson at Independence Park, St. Andrew, on Wednesday, December 28. In a 90-minute ceremony, which was attended by Portia Simpson Miller, the Minister of Local Government, ...
RED BRIGADE! Vernal makes Boys' Town homecoming satisfying
Jan 05, 2006 ... BOYS' TOWN, playing at home in the Wray and Nephew National Premier League (NPL) for the first time in over 10 years, scored a close 1-0 win over Rivoli United at Collie Smith Drive on Monday, January 2. Since their return to the top flight this season, The Red Brigades' had to wait four ...
Policeman beaten by colleagues buried
Jan 05, 2006 ... POLICE COMMISSIONER Lucius Thomas views the body of Grantley Waite at a funeral service at Richmond Park Church of the Nazarene in St. Andrew, Friday, December 30. Corporal Waite, who was allegedly beaten by his colleagues in Mount Salem, St. James, died on December 16 at the Kingston ...
HIGH MARKS; Thumbs up for Jamaica's top cop!
Jan 05, 2006; ... JUST A few days shy of a year on the job, Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas seemed to have struck the right chord in and outside of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). On January 19, last year, Lucius Thomas, 56, replaced Francis Forbes who went on early retirement. Mr. Forbes became ...
Hundreds mourn Atlanta fire victims
Jan 05, 2006; ... HUNDREDS PACKED the New Hope Seventh-day Adventist Church in Atlanta Tuesday, December 27 to pay tribute to the lives of Tracey-Ann, Plummer, her stepdaughter, Dilia and son Dijon. The three perished in a fire which engulfed their five-bedroom house in Atlanta on December 22. The ...
Jamaicans make mark in Maine
Jan 05, 2006 ... THE TOWN of Lewiston in Maine may be best known for hosting the second heavyweight title boxing fight between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston in May 1965. But it is also the home of Bates College where three Jamaicans recently made their mark. Shoshoni Caine, Patricia Dunbar and Jevede ...
No angels died at Kraal?
Jan 05, 2006 ... FOUR INNOCENT persons, two women and two men, were brutally killed on May 7, 2003 in Kraal, Clarendon. There is no evidence they had criminal records or were even involved in any criminal activity or wrongdoing, before or at the time of their death. They were Jamaican citizens deserving of ...
Miracle in Point Hill
Jan 05, 2006; ... POINT HILL residents say it is nothing short of a miracle. And they speak in reverential tones of the day when a large, hefty boulder, dislodged from a nearby hill during a landslide, narrowly missed smashing the residence of the Richards family in the Store Hill district of the ...
Cruise boom BOTTLENECK
Jan 05, 2006 ... Berthing problems hamper liner boom A VAST upgrading of cruise ship facilities in Montego Bay and Ocho Rios starting next year is expected to ease a chronic situation which now sees the island literally turning away cruise vessels due to serious berthing inadequacies. The crunch ...
Peaceful Sting '05 at Jamworld
Jan 05, 2006; ... THE MORNING sun waxed warm on the backs of the large crowd yesterday as thousands happily faced a searing alternating barrage of lyrics from Beenie Man and Vybz Kartel which ended Guinness Sting 2006. No effort was spared in emphasising peace, love and unity, selector Glamour Wayne and ...
'Living it up' on the Deck
Jan 05, 2006; ... WHO SAYS 'live music' in Jamaica is on the decline? Certainly not anyone who turned up at The Deck on Trafalgar Road to hear 12 local bands do their thing on Thursday December 21. The bands were auditioning for a chance to perform at the Ocean Spray stage of the Air Jamaica Jazz and ...
Linton Johnson reads, speaks at Liberty Hall
Jan 05, 2006; ... A STEADY breeze which fanned poet Linton Kwesi Johnson's words and muted pre-Christmas buzz from King Street, downtown Kingston, did not disturb the quiet audience in Liberty Hall's rooftop amphitheatre last Thursday night. In addition to the England-based Johnson's reading from his ...
Ja's top cop heads to US
Jan 05, 2006 ... THE JAMAICAN Canadian Diaspora Foundation plans start off 2006 with a focus on crime in Jamaica. The group has invited Jamaica's Commissioner of Police, Lucius Thomas, to visit between January 19 and 24. The Commissioner will hold a verandah style rap session at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, ...
Community champions celebrated with awards
Jan 05, 2006 ... THE ORGANISERS of the first annual awards dinner, "Celebrating Our Community Champions" are looking forward to next year's event. Tipper Food Ltd. and Nia Social Committee recently hosted the event at Club Paradise. The event is designed to award and celebrate the contributions and ...
Clarke applauds end
Jan 05, 2006 ... COUNCIL MEMBER Yvette D. Clarke (D-Brooklyn) issued the following statement recently regarding the contract settlement between the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the Transport Workers Union: "I am delighted to hear that the transit strike has come to an end and that our city has ...
Murders in Jamaica critical?
Jan 05, 2006; ... THE HEADLINES said "Eight Killed in 24 hours." With that new addition, the murdered in Jamaica surpassed the 1,000 mark with, at the time, seventy-two hours left in the year. The number is an unworthy, but thunderous new record. Murder takes no holiday in Jamaica. As the island drips in ...
Marcus & Calley Present, Big, Big Topics for Little Kids
Jan 05, 2006 ... Copyright 2004 by Claudette McGowan Illustrator Hazel Mitchell ISBN: 0-9735706-0-1 Price: $9.99 CDN/$6.99 USD Reviewed By Judith Woolcock Colombo Many popular children's books center around fantasy worlds filled with the magic of witches, wizards, ghosts, and ...
Edna Lewis; End of a simple, fulfilling life
Jan 05, 2006; ... CENTENARIAN EDNA Lewis lived a fulfilling, but simple life. She was quite popular in her downtown Kingston community and was affectionately referred to by everyone, young and old, as 'Aunty' or 'Aunt Edna'. She was born on February 26, 1905 and raised in northeast St ....
Track and field a distant winner in 2005
Jan 05, 2006; ... THE YEAR 2005 is fast receding into history and as far as sport is concerned, but for the standard bearers in track and field, it has been, for Jamaicans, a year in which there has not been much to really shout about. On the field, for example, Jamaica failed to qualify for next year's ...
I will offer all my assistance to Ja - Ottey
Jan 05, 2006; ... JAMAICAN SPRINT legend Merlene Ottey has pledged to extend her contribution to the country's track and field programme. Ottey, Jamaica's most decorated athlete with 22 Olympic (8) and World Championship (14) medals, along with Srdjan Djordjevic from her company, carried out a number of ...
Coach positive about team's top performance
Jan 05, 2006; ... JAMAICA'S UNDER-21 female football team, presently preparing for the final round of the World Cup qualifications later this month, were on Sunday, January 1, beaten 4-0 by a St. Elizabeth Under-21 male football team at the Lacovia Community Centre. Despite the loss, coach Vin Blaine said ...
Plan to cut murder rate
Jan 12, 2006; ... BY THE end of this month the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will develop a plan to reduce murder, Deputy Commissioner (DCP) Mark Shields has disclosed. The objective is to be pursued through a specific Homicide Reduction Strategy being prepared by DCP Shields, who heads the crime ...
Chavez smiles on Ja; Venezuelan loan may lower toll
Jan 12, 2006; ... Venezuelan loan may lower toll TOLL COSTS for the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 could be kept down, thanks to a low-interest loan of up to US$300 million ($19 billion) from the Venezuelan Government, said Prime Minister P.J. Patterson on Tuesday, January 3. Portmore residents had ...
Tighter ackee export rules
Jan 12, 2006; ... THE MINISTRY of Agriculture will be instituting tighter measures on ackee exports following the seizure of a shipment of ackee from Jamaica recently by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). "I have actually had a word with the Bureau of Standards on it, and in the first ...
'Comply or lose' out
Jan 12, 2006 ... THE JAMAICA Exporters' Association (JEA) recently warned food producers to ensure standards or find themselves unable to export. This follows the recent recall or seizure by the United States-based Food and Drug Administration (FDA), of Jamaican canned ackees containing dangerously high ...
New year - new challenges
Jan 12, 2006 ... ONCE AGAIN the calendar changes and we face a new year with all its uncertainties. It has become the custom to speak of our way of life in terms of "crisis," forgetting the definition fashioned by the Chinese, it is said, who define the word as both "opportunity" and "challenge." How we manage ...
across the nation
Jan 12, 2006 ... Lucea, HANOVER Some 350 homeless and indigent persons from Montego Bay and Lucea have benefited from the donation of clothing and medical supplies from the Agape International Foundation (AIF) and the Lenox Road Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York. The donation, valued at more ...
The rising waters of Moneague
Jan 12, 2006; ... WE'VE BEEN there, seen it. Water, water everywhere, covering trees and houses and continuing to rise as the Moneague lake does what it hasn't done for a while. Hundreds of fellow Jamaicans came to see in just the couple of hours that we were there on the second New Year's ...
Boyz, Britain clash
Jan 12, 2006; ... ITS ALL systems go for the historic encounter between Jamaica and World Cup top eight seed England scheduled for June 3,10:00 a.m. local time at the historic Wembley Stadium. The Reggae Boyz are expected to come face to face with a full-strength England squad which should include the ...
A synopsis of the King's life
Jan 12, 2006; ... "Well I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it realty doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountain top and I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has it's place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I ...
TRAVEL FEATURE; Jazzing with the greats
Jan 12, 2006 ... IN OCTOBER 1996 Air Jamaica, the national carrier of Jamaica, launched the one-of-a kind Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival, a star-studded event presenting world-renowned jazz and blues artistes alongside some of Jamaica's finest talent in the music industry. The first festival was ...
Stellar line-up for Air J Jazz and Blues
Jan 12, 2006; ... THE 2006 Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, slated for January 26 to 28, was launched in the gardens of the Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston, on Tuesday night. Once again, in keeping with a tradition of the past two years, the jazz and blues element of the festival is almost null and ...
Dr Sandra Romano Anthony, York West
Jan 12, 2006 ... LAST YEAR was her political baptism of fire. Initially she had no intention of running in a federal election but was encouraged by Councillor Olivia Chow. Dr. Sandra Romano Anthony, NDP candidate for York West, was at an event to mark International Day for the Elimination of Racial ...
Black-owned firms get contract
Jan 12, 2006 ... WHEN REAL estate developments come to urban areas, minority firms often miss out on construction contracts. Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards project, proposed by developer Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC), is working to change that with the first-ever, legally-binding Community Benefits Agreement ...
Candidates to address African Cdn community
Jan 12, 2006 ... THE COALITION of African Canadian Organisations is organising a series of all candidates' meetings to address issues of concern to the African Canadian community during the current election campaign. Issues to be addressed will include gun violence, youth unemployment, immigration, ...
A response to Governor Pataki's state of the State
Jan 12, 2006; ... GOVERNOR GEORGE Pataki's 12th, and thankfully final, State of the State speech was the first of his misguided campaign for the presidency. As a result, it contained more good news for the right wing of the Republican Party and the people of Iowa (who will vote in the first Presidential caucus) ...
Kenneth Spencer; Jamaican artist passes
Jan 12, 2006; ... JAMAICAN INTERNATIONAL artist, Kenneth Abendana Spencer, died Thursday, December 29 at age 76. The Weekly Gleaner understands that Mr. Spencer, who was suffering from bone cancer, died at 2:00 a.m. at the Port Antonio Hospital, Portland. Among Mr. Spencer's most popular works are ...
Waterhouse close gap on Harbour View
Jan 12, 2006 ... AN IMPRESSIVE 3-1 home win against champions Portmore United pulled Waterhouse within nine points of leaders Harbour View, as the curtains were drawn on the penultimate set of games in the Wray and Nephew National Premier League on Sunday, January 8. Roberto Fletcher, with a brace in the ...
Lucille Lue; Lucille Lue, gone too soon
Jan 12, 2006 ... JAMAICA'S FIRST and only female president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), Lucille Lue O.D., died at the MoBay Hope Medical Centre in Rose Hall, St. James, on Christmas Day. Lue, 62, had been admitted to the Montego Bay medical facility on Sunday morning, January 1, ...
Seba extend impressive streak
Jan 12, 2006 ... SEBA UNITED continued their late charge up the tables in the 2005-06 Wray and Nephew National Premier League football competition Sunday afternoon, January 8, when goals by Delroy Ellis and the prolific Wilfred Smith gave them a 2-0 win over the struggling Constant Spring at Jarrett ...
JFF President Boxhill fires back at Tomlinson
Jan 12, 2006; ... JAMAICA FOOTBALL Federation (JFF) President Crenston Boxhill has suggested that Everton Tomlinson is being controlled by a 'greater force'. Tomlinson, president of the Westmoreland Football Association (WFA), recently said he was disappointed with the current football administration and ...
J'can 'kingpin' held in London
Jan 12, 2006 ... A JAMAICAN man, convicted of importing and supplying cocaine while laundering cash worth up to £47m, has been sent to prison for 14 years, in the United Kingdom. The convict, 36-year-old Clifton Rochester, of a London address, admitted to conspiracy to import and supply cocaine, ...
Portia's campaign shifts gear
Jan 12, 2006; ... CONFIDENCE was the buzz word at the Hilton Kingston Hotel on Wednesday, January 4, where the latest leg of Portia Simpson Miller's bid to succeed P.J. Patterson as People's National Party (PNP) president and Prime Minister was launched. The Minister of Local Government, Community ...
BRIEFS
Jan 12, 2006 ... $200m facelift for Sp Town Hospital The Spanish Town Hospital in St. Catherine will receive a $200 million renovation and facelift later this month. The renovation will be bankrolled by the National Health Fund and the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education fund set up by ...
Cop beaten to death buried
Jan 12, 2006 ... POLICE COMMISSIONER Lucius Thomas views the body of Grantley Waite at a funeral service at Richmond Park Church of the Nazarene in St. Andrew, Friday, December 30. Corporal Waite, who was allegedly beaten by his colleagues in Mount Salem, St. James, died on December 16 at the Kingston ...
'Swamped'
Jan 12, 2006 ... THE COMMUNITY of Swamp in Moneague, St. Ann, has almost entirely disappeared under a fast-rising body of water. The water has been rising from the ground since earlier this year and has already exceeded 80 feet in some places. Enterprising residents have since transformed the area into ...
The challenge of 2006
Jan 12, 2006; ... NORMALLY, THE start of a new year brings renewed hope, a fresh start and inspiration for a better life. For most, greetings of 'Happy New Year' and wishes of peace, prosperity and progress were stifled and smothered by the sadness and unhappy events of 2005. The year 2005 was not a good year, ...
BELL WINS
Jan 12, 2006 ... JAMAICA'S O'NEIL Bell landed a vicious flurry of punches late in the 10th round to send Jean-Marc Mormeck crumpling to the canvas and in the process crowned himself the undisputed Cruiserweight champion of the world on Saturday night, January 7, at a packed Madison Square Garden in New ...