The Weekly Gleaner back issues from November 2007:
PNP CLAIMS ANOTHER SEAT
Nov 01, 2007; ... DK Duncan wins East Hanover seat FOUR SEATS now separate the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) from the Opposition People's National Party (PNP), after Dr. D.K. Duncan was on Thursday, October 25, declared winner of the Eastern Hanover constituency. He defeated the JLP's Barrington ...
'We have teeth and we're going to bite!'
Nov 01, 2007; ... KINGSTON MAYOR Desmond McKenzie, on Sunday, October 28, threatened business operators who flouted the city council's advertising procedures of more crackdowns, warning he was intent on punishing offenders. McKenzie, who, last Sunday, led an exercise to remove illegal billboards on Hagley ...
Cop shot eight times in the back
Nov 01, 2007; ... A POLICE constable, who was attached to the St. Andrew South Division, was killed by a gunman on Sunday, October 28. More than a dozen Jamaican law enforcement personnel have been murdered since January. Fidel Beckford was shot dead by an assailant shortly after 2:00 p.m. in Toll Gate, ...
State vows crackdown on illegal gas stations
Nov 01, 2007; ... THE GOVERNMENT is warning that it will be clamping down on illegal suppliers of petroleum products. Clive Mullings, Minister of Energy, says a special force will be established to crack down on the illegal operators. This will be a tall order, because gas is sold illegally in ...
Five shot in gang war
Nov 01, 2007; ... THE CENTRAL Village police say a gang war was the motive behind the murder of a 19-year-old woman and the injuring of four persons during a shooting in Caymanas Bay, St. Catherine on Thursday night, October 25. Dead is Nashauna Barrett, while the four injured males were hospitalised with ...
Three dead, two injured after shoot-out
Nov 01, 2007; ... AS THE country's official murder toll climbed to 1,105, a series of incidents in west Kingston on Monday, added four others to the list of those killed since the start of the year. In the most controversial of the three incidents, the shooting death of three men and injuring of two ...
RM urges court to complete Danhai case
Nov 01, 2007; ... SENIOR RESIDENT Magistrate Glen Brown sent a strong message on Monday, October 29, that every effort must be made to have the fraud case involving $451 million against east Kingston businessman Danhai Williams, his company, and five others brought to completion. RM Brown pointed out that ...
Jamaican restaurant opens in China
Nov 01, 2007; ... THE OFFICIAL opening of the Cho-Cho Jamaican restaurant in Hangzhou China was held during the summer of 2007. According to owner Glendon Thompson, this is the first Jamaican restaurant to be opened in the country of 1 billion people. Thompson, who is from Jamaica, lives in Atlanta. His ...
Carifolk in triumphant return to Brooklyn
Nov 01, 2007; ... THE CARIFOLK Singers completed a well-received four-concert series with a final stop at Brooklyn's Samuel Tilden High School's Auditorium on Sunday, October 21. The performances from October 18-21 were part of the group's latest concert tour entitled 'Ancestories,' which according to the ...
Tourism to be driver of Jamaica's economy
Nov 01, 2007; ... New York: THE NEW Minister of Tourism, Hon. Ed Bartlett, bared his plans for the improvement and transformation of the tourism industry in Jamaica at two recent events in New York City. The minister was hosted first by the Jamaican-American Chamber of Commerce Inc. at a luncheon held at ...
Hate crime at Columbia University?
Nov 01, 2007; ... ON TUESDAY, October 9, at New York's Columbia University, according to reports, Madonna Constantine, a renowned African-American professor at Columbia University's Teachers College, received a threatening greeting when she arrived at her office and saw a hangman's noose attached to her ...
Golden Krust, Jamaica National form partnership
Nov 01, 2007; ... Brooklyn, NY: GOLDEN KRUST Caribbean Bakery & Grill (GK) and Jamaica National Overseas Inc. (JNO) officially opened the first joint-venture location on Saturday October 13, at 139 Lawrence Street in downtown Brooklyn. Under this new venture, Jamaica National Overseas will offer ...
A matter of conscience
Nov 01, 2007; ... A FRIEND emailed me the first-hand account of how she came to discover a murder victim in her community. He was apparently transported there and shot twice in the head. She described hearing two shots, seeing the darkness of the night penetrated by the flashes and her neighbours' frantic scurry ...
Judicial spotlight on matrimonial property
Nov 01, 2007; ... EDITORIAL THE PROMINENT case about the distribution of assets amassed in the course of a matrimonial relationship has ended after years of litigation with the Privy Council making the final determination. It is not the first case of its kind to come into the glare of public scrutiny. On ...
Natasha Mehu - blazing the trail
Nov 01, 2007; ... Caribbean Studentswho Excel In North American Universities NATASHA MEHU, a senior at the University of Maryland in College Park, has been President of the Caribbean Students Association (CSA) there since May of this year. "It is a vibrant organisation," she said. "We try to make sure ...
World-renown author
Nov 01, 2007; ... Margaret Cezair-Thompson AUTHOR AND College Professor at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, Jamaican-born Margaret Cezair-Thompson says her first novel The True History of Paradise, is probably the one that has been most satisfying in her career. The story, set in Jamaica in the 1980's ...
Shaw 'impresses' multilaterals
Nov 01, 2007; ... FINANCE MINISTER Audley Shaw on his first mission to Washington, made a 'first class' presentation on Jamaica's economic plan to the multilaterals in Washington, says his deputy Don Wehby, that impressed the financiers. The team returned Wednesday, October 24. Shaw was "excellent ...
Five new KFC restaurants by 2009
Nov 01, 2007; ... MARK MYERS, managing director of Restaurants of Jamaica (ROJ), says he will be adding five new KFC stores to the chain over the next two years, as part of a $800-million investment over the next two years. The five stores will be done in the new image being effected throughout the KFC ...
MAN OF THE YEAR
Nov 08, 2007; ... Juici Patties boss tops Gleaner Honour Awards JUKIE CHIN, founder of the successful Juici Patties chain of restaurants, was on Monday, November 5, hailed as 'Man of the Year1 at the 28th annual Gleaner Honour Awards ceremony, held at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston. He ...
Gordon-Webley named executive director of NSWMA
Nov 08, 2007; ... JOAN GORDON-WEBLEY is the new executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA). Mrs. Gordon-Webley is promising to turn around the negative image of the scandal-ridden agency during her tenure by being on the road and ensuring that the work gets ...
Tourist arrivals jump in October
Nov 08, 2007; ... TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett has expressed confidence that Jamaica will surpass last year's record 1.7 million tourist stopover arrivals in the wake of news that October's figures showed a nine per cent jump. And if last month's statistics were something to shout about, word that the ...
Stanley G. Grizzle Park unveiled
Nov 08, 2007; ... CANADA'S FIRST black Citizenship Court judge, Stanley G. Grizzle, is very pleased with the naming of a park in Toronto in his honour. In March, a few days away from leaving for Jamaica, he received a call from Councillor Janet Davis (Ward 31 Beaches-East York) informing him that the Toronto East ...
Margarett Best is new Health Promotion Minister
Nov 08, 2007; ... JAMAICA-BORN Margarett Best, Member of Provincial Parliament for Scarborough-Guildwood is the new Health Promotion Minister in the 28member Cabinet of Premier Dalton McGuinty. She was sworn-in on Tuesday, October 30, at Queen's Park. Gerry Phillips, the former Government and Consumer ...
Homos and promos in the media
Nov 08, 2007; ... POET STACY Anne Chin took her story of being terrorised in her homeland Jamaica to the Oprah Winfrey Show recently. During an international focus on living openly gay, Winfrey talked with an NBA athlete, an Indian prince, and a psychologist, who revealed that Sweden is the most progressive ...
New NIS building to be constructed
Nov 08, 2007; ... MAY PEN, CLARENDON: THE RELOCATION of the May Pen Police Station has brought about the opportunity of advancement in Clarendon. Minister of Labour and Social security, Pearnel Charles, senior adviser in that ministry, Clifton Stone, Permanent secretary, Alvin McIntosh, and Ludlow Bowie, ...
TRELAWNY FISHERMAN
Nov 08, 2007; ... BRIEFS It was a real celebration at the Sober Robin's Inn in Duncans recently for Charles 'Chaz-o' Gallimore, who by the end of the day had seen 100 years of this life. With six of his eight children present, one deceased, this former fisherman gave praise to God for his ...
Hanging and the conscience vote
Nov 08, 2007; ... THE JAMAICA Labour Party promised that should they form the next government, they would resume hanging. The intoxication of politicking might have added glibness to their speeches, but, now that they're in power, they want to fulfil that undertaking. Capital punishment is still on our books, but ...
Petulance as public policy
Nov 08, 2007; ... EDITORIAL SOME DAYS ago, two events of note occurred. Minister of Transport, Mike Henry, declined to attend the reception marking the inaugural flight of Virgin Atlantic to Jamaica. Also, Minister of Trade and Industry, Karl Samuda, announced a suspension of the trade in scrap metal ...
Tiffany Payne: I love teaching
Nov 08, 2007; ... Caribbean Students Succeeding At North American Universities SHE IS an organised, detail-oriented person, who is very focused on reaching her goal of becoming a qualified Elementary School Teacher. She is also very proud of her Caribbean roots and culture and makes it a priority to let ...
Author wants reprint of first book
Nov 08, 2007; ... REV. CARMEN Young is contemplating a second printing of her highly successful book I will Arise And Go To My Father. Speaking from her home in Stone Mountain, Atlanta, the Jamaican-bom truth teacher brought me up-todate on some of her varied life experiences. First and foremost is her ...
Wehby exploring offshore centre
Nov 08, 2007; ... SENATOR DON Wehby, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, has set up a special advisory committee, headed by tax expert Eric Crawford of Pricewater-houseCoopers, to explore the development of a International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in ...
'Virgin here to stay'
Nov 08, 2007; ... SIR RICHARD Branson's investment in Jamaica to service the London route acquired from Air Jamaica is running at US$200 million (J$13.5 billion), the billionaire said, Tuesday, October 30. The majority of those funds financed acquisition of a new plane to service the route. With ...
Cash Plus launches Hillshire as casino hotel, gentleman's club
Nov 01, 2007; ... THE OLD La Mirage hotel in Montego Bay has been rebranded with its managers now saying the small, 21-room property will offer casino gaming as part of a full entertainment package that also includes a 'gentleman's club'. The investment scheme, Cash Plus, headed by Carlos Hill, acquired ...
Mortgage - your most important loan
Nov 01, 2007; ... ACQUIRING A mortgage is the most important loan you could ever seek and as such great care should be taken not to lessen your chances of procuring such a loan. Once the decision is made to take a mortgage, there are going to be a few loose ends that will need tiding up before you approach your ...
What your home can do for you
Nov 01, 2007; ... A HOME equity loan, sometimes referred to as a second mortgage is borrowing against your home. The loan allows you to tap into your home's built-up equity, which is the difference between the amount your home could be sold for, and the amount that you still owe. Homeowners often use a ...
'Mello Vibes' rains down at Mas Camp
Nov 01, 2007; ... AT MIDNIGHT when the rain poured over St. Andrew on Saturday, October 27, the Mas Camp was full of activity with Mello Vibes. When The Weekly Gleaner team arrived, outside Mas Camp was crowded with patrons waiting in the rain to get in and, on the inside, the packed crowd was dancing ...
Merritone to rock MoBay
Nov 01, 2007; ... MONTEGO BAY will be in the hands of the last of the foundation selectors', Winston 'Merritone' Blake, on Saturday November 3, at Tropical Beach. This journey down memory lane will be the major fund-raising activity of the Montego Bay Community Home for Girls (MBCHG/Melody House) for ...
ENTERTAINMENT QUICKIES
Nov 01, 2007; ... Mansion 'Beat It' SMITH MANSION Production recording artistes are back behind the cameras again. This time deejay Rally Bop has teamed up with Golden Rama and Hollow Point on Beat It, which was shot at White Room Studio. The video was shot by director Smokey and will be released under ...
'Harder They Come'
Nov 01, 2007; ... voted third best soundtrack of all time THE SOUNDTRACK to Perry Henzell's iconic movie The Harder They Come, was voted the third best of all time, according to the editors of Vanity Fair magazine who compiled a list of the 50 greatest movie soundtracks. Prince's Purple Rain has ...
Lynch confirmed for JTB
Nov 01, 2007; ... DESPITE WIDESPREAD criticism, Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, on Thursday, October 25, confirmed that Sandals Resorts senior vice-president, John D. Lynch, will chair the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB). Mr. Bartlett last week Thursday, told members of the media during a press ...
Ja breaks 1,000 murder mark
Nov 01, 2007; ... JAMAICA HAS broken the thousand mark again with 1,105 murders being committed since the start of the year, according to the latest crime statistics released by the Jamaica Constabulary Force. In figures for the month of September, in which the country went through a general election and ...
KSAC to probe revenue shortfall
Nov 01, 2007; ... THE KINGSTON and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) will be establishing a subcommittee to examine why the council is having a revenue shortfall of $7.2 million this year when compared to last year. The underperformance of the KSAC's revenue collection system was disclosed on Thursday, ...
Confiscate money
Nov 01, 2007; ... THE COURT of Appeal has ruled that the Jamaican Government should confiscate the US$800,000 that was found in the luggage of four Columbians two years ago. The Columbians were about to board a flight from Kingston in April 2005 when the money was found in their luggage. The men ...
J'cans in UK jails to serve remaining sentence at home
Nov 01, 2007; ... JAMAICA AND Britain are in discussions on the transfer of more than 1,000 Jamaicans currently serving time in the United Kingdom (U.K.) prisons. The issue surfaced on Wednesday, October 24, in the British House of Commons after it was revealed that there were two prisons - Bullwood Hall ...
Audrey gets half
Nov 01, 2007; ... Privy Council says shares in Lasco to be divided equally THE 13-YEAR-LEGAL battle between Kingston businessman Lascelles Chin and his ex-wife Audrey ended on Wednesday, October 24, with the United Kingdom Privy Council ruling that the shares in the multimillion-dollar company, Lasco ...
MacMillan named special adviser to Finance and Public Service Ministry
Nov 01, 2007; ... THE GOVERNMENT seems set to receive support from the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) with regards to the National Independent Investigative Agency Act, which is aimed at tackling corruption in public life and transnational organised crime. "It is something that we place great ...
Author encourages alumni to stay together
Nov 01, 2007; ... JAMAICA-BORN author Daisy Wright has charged members of the Holmwood Past Students Association (Toronto Chapter) to adopt the school's motto and stay together. She was the keynote speaker at the association's 20th anniversary dinner, dance and awards presentation held recently in Toronto ....
Spirit of Nelson Mandela for Canadian schools
Nov 01, 2007; ... THE NELSON Mandela Children's Fund, headed by Gordon Cressy, is launching a nation-wide fund-raising campaign among Canadian school children. In a recent interview Cressy disclosed that the organisation raised $130,000 at a special October 17 screening of the film 'Mandela: Father of a ...
The Pirate's Daughter
Nov 01, 2007; ... TITLE: THE PIRATE'S DAUGHTER AUTHOR: MARGARET CEZAIR-THOMPSON PUBUSHER: UNBRIDLED REVIEWER: BARBARA NELSON JAMAICAN-BORN Margaret Cezair-Thompson, a creative writing instructor at Weilesley College in Massachusetts, tells a wonderfully entertaining fictional tale ...
'Mama Ruth' believed strongly in family
Nov 01, 2007; ... Ruthlyn Williams RUTHLYN MERCELIA Williams was bom in Cavaliers, St. Andrew, on July 25,1928. She was the third child for Mard and Wilfred Gibson. She was affectionately called 'Miss Will', 'Mama Ruth' or 'Mama' and was a devoted, loving, caring, stem, yet compassionate woman ....
'A friendly, helpful sister'
Nov 01, 2007; ... Marilyn Lawrence MARILYN JANET Lawrence was a very friendly and helpful sister of Drews Avenue, Kingston 20. She was affectionately called tavern' and was born on August 19,1961 at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital to parents Minna Franis-Brown and Ronald Lawrence. Lavern attended ...
The very essence of compassion, love
Nov 01, 2007; ... Martha Davis MARTHA REBECCA Davis, affectionately called 'Mama', was the very essence of compassion, duty and love. Within the family and, more specifically, on Pullet Ridge (as in the latter years she didn't get out much) - she was a symbol of selflessness which was shown in the way she ...
Harbour View win five-goal thriller
Nov 01, 2007; ... AN ENTHRALLING second-half comeback and substitute Kemeel Wolfe's telling contributions through a goal and penalty-making move lifted champions Harbour View to an exciting 3-2 victory over Waterhouse, in their Cash Plus Premier League match at Harbour View Mini Stadium on Sunday, October ...
Former Under-17 coach dies
Nov 01, 2007; ... FORMER NATIONAL Under-17 and Calabar High School's Manning Cup coach, David Hunt, was pronounced dead at the University Hospital of the West Indies on Friday, October 26, after collapsing at his home in Havendale, St. Andrew. Just hours before his team, Calabar were scheduled to play ...
Kingston's dining-out culture
Nov 08, 2007; ... KINGSTON IS the hub of fine dining, complemented with great entertainment. Whether it's Chinese, Indian, Mediterranean, Japanese, Latin, or just good 'ole' Jamaican cuisine, the city is the place to meet your every palate need. For the past 10 to 15 years, dining-out has become the new ...
NEW INVESTMENTS
Nov 08, 2007; ... THE PRIVATE sector head here has placed the welcome mat out for Caribbean businesses as he says this Eastern Caribbean state is looking forward to attracting investment from other regional countries. Francis Emanuel, head of the Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce (DAIC), told ...
Ministry orders schools to stop using controversial textbook
Nov 08, 2007; ... AFTER MUCH public outcry surrounding the use of a textbook in the secondary school system, which states that homosexual unions may be considered a family type, the Ministry of Education has ordered that the controversial textbook be removed from the classroom. A resolute Andrew Holness, ...
Scrap metal export officially scrapped
Nov 08, 2007; ... THE ORDER to halt exports of scrap metal in the burgeoning multimillion-dollar business has been gazetted and signed by the Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister, Karl Samuda. This officially brings activities in the unregulated business to a standstill, effective October ...
Farewell, Commisioner!
Nov 08, 2007; ... WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31 was his last day in office and it was also the final day for his successor to apply for the job as police commissioner. As he bade farewell to friends and colleagues at his 101 Old Hope Road office, St. Andrew, Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas was sifting through ...
'Nuh drop him, yu nuh'
Nov 08, 2007; ... A BROKEN bridge made accessible by a makeshift ladder in Mount Lebanus, St. Thomas, was the only way a mother and her young baby, just released from the hospital, were able to get home on Thursday, November 1. Being careful not to slip and fall with her child into the rising waters, ...
Rodgers new CEO of Air J
Nov 08, 2007; ... WILLIAM RODGERS has been appointed acting president and chief executive officer of Air Jamaica with immediate effect. Rodgers, who retired from the airline earlier this year after more than 35 years, was asked to return to the national carrier by the Government. He served in ...
'Murderers preying on returning residents'
Nov 08, 2007; ... PRESIDENT OF the Returning Residents Association, Percival La Touche, said immediate attention needed to be paid to the life of returned resident as, in the last seven years, 209 have been murdered. He said that, with an average of 30 deaths per year, it is clear that criminals do not ...
Hustling in Junction
Nov 08, 2007; ... JUNCTION IN St. Elizabeth isn't as busy as it once was, but, for Miss Martha, the fruit vendor, it's as comfortable and exciting as ever. 'When people come Junction, dem come a town. People who live inna St. Elizabeth haffi come here more time when dem a go bout dem business. So now, we will deh ...
Gatwick slots are 'junk', says Henry
Nov 08, 2007; ... MINISTER OF Transport and Works, Mike Henry, has vowed to press ahead with the review of the Virgin Atlantic contract, saying Air Jamaica and the country were given a raw deal with 'junk' slots at Gatwick Airport, London. He is now demanding three of the seven positions that Virgin now ...
Seprod divests again
Nov 08, 2007; ... FOLLOWING THE announcement that it would sell its 50 per cent interest in the US$40 million Gatcombe Investment by the start of this month, Seprod Limited now says it will be divesting its interest in its St. Lucianbased associated companies Productive Business Solutions Limited and CBM ...