The Weekly Gleaner back issues from May 2008:
'Grow your food'
May 01, 2008; ... AGAINST THE background of rising food prices and a global food shortage, the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) is encouraging more persons to get involved in backyard farming to reduce the country's dependence on imports. Callaloo, a popular vegetable that can be grown in the backyard, ...
Golding gives green light to casinos
May 01, 2008; ... Prime Minister Bruce Golding has confirmed a Weekly Gleaner report that his administration has given the green light for the introduction of casinos. Already, the developers of the Palmyra Resort and Spa have been given approval to construct a new hotel - on a 65-acre property in Rose ...
Berger banking on colour system to secure market
May 01, 2008; ... PAINED BY the inroads that rivals have made in the market, Berger Paints Jamaica Limited is hanking on its computerised colour tinting system not only to boost revenues but also give the company a new edge over rivals. The added investment in technology for competitive advantage follows ...
Teary farewell for Bob's mom
May 01, 2008; ... CEDELLA BOOKER, the humble country girl whose first-born became a champion of the impoverished and downtrodden, was given an emotional send-off on Monday, April 28, at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, St Andrew. Roughly 300 persons turned out at the church's Maxfield Avenue base to say ...
Ja to grow rice
May 01, 2008; ... THE JAMAICAN Government has reached out to Guyana for assistance to resume rice production locally, a move which has already received support from private sector companies which have pledged funding for the venture. This is according to Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher ...
Bunting challenges Shaw's claim of 'sweetheart deal'
May 01, 2008; ... TEMPERS FLARED and a verbal clash ensued between Government and Opposition members inside Gordon House on Wednesday, April 23, during Finance Minister Audley Shaw's closing presentation in the 2008/2009 Budget Debate. Shaw charged that the previous administration entered into a ...
NHT rates up
May 01, 2008; ... MIDDLE-INCOME Jamaicans who benefit from National Housing Trust (NHT) mortgages will pay up to 33.3 per cent more in interest rates on loans, Bruce Golding announced in his debut Budget Debate presentation as prime minister on Tuesday, April 22. The revised interest rate structure, which ...
DANHAI FREE BUT...
May 01, 2008; ... Prosecution could reopen $451M fraud case THE ABSENCE of two vital Crown witnesses on Monday, April 28, forced the director of public prosecutions (DPP) to drop the $451 million fraud case against east Kingston businessman, Danhai Williams, his company and six ...
Property-tax compliance a 'low' 44 per cent
May 01, 2008; ... FEWER than half of Jamaicans pay their property taxes, leaving a gap in the financing required for solidwaste management and streetlighting. Compliance rates for land/ property taxes is a 'low' 44 per cent, representing revenues of just under $1 billion at fiscal year end March 2008, ...
Responsible regulation
May 01, 2008; ... THE RECENT Las May Weekly Gleaner editorial cartoon depicting Cash Plus as a smashed Humpty Dumpty that fell off the wall was brilliant and amusing. Beside Humpty Dumpty was a concerned woman and approaching him (with stethoscope and medical bag) was the depiction of a representative from Price ...
NROCC turns to China for highway financing
May 01, 2008; ... JAMAICA'S HIGHWAY company has accumulated losses of $9.3 billion in its six years of operation, but NROCC's position is expected to get a lot worse by the end of the current fiscal year when it is projected to be $17.4 billion in the red. Last week, Ivan Anderson, the chief executive of ...
Jamaica, Guyana battle over rice
May 01, 2008; ... JAMAICA HAS warned that it will override any Guyanese resistance to its request for a suspension of Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) 25 per cent common external tariff (CET) on the import of up to 24,000 tonnes of rice, a move aimed at guaranteeing domestic demand for the commodity at the lowest ...
Int'l students wanted
May 01, 2008; ... Federal gov't introduces changes to work permits for int'l students THE FEDERAL government has announced changes to work permits for international students who graduate from eligible programmes at certain Canadian post-secondary institutions, making it easier to attract foreign students ...
Food crisis sparks role reversal in WTO
May 01, 2008; ... GENEVA (AFP): THE FOOD crisis is bringing about a role reversal in the World Trade Organization: traditionally liberal major food exporters are now imposing restrictions on exports while protectionist states are pushing for liberalisation. To deal with the recent hike in food ...
Steele set to ignite RUSEA's Gala
May 01, 2008; ... Steele set to ignite RUSEA's Gala "Being born in the small town of Lucea, and spending two years of my high school life as a student of the institution where most of us in that town aspired to attend, really makes this performance very special to me," says Steele. "It's especially ...
DANCEWORKS - POTPOURRI': a medley of music and dance
May 01, 2008; ... DANCEWORKS - POTPOURRI': a medley of music and dance It was gala night, and there were servings of jazz, contemporary, folk, Afro-Cuban movement and dancehall for the packed School of Dance Studio Theatre audience, at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, on ...
OBAMA, THE NEW KING?
May 01, 2008; ... US professor likens Obama to Dr. Martin Luther King's vision WHILE US presidential candidate Barack Obama has tried not to play the race card, election pundits say this is virtually impossible in a tryoff, which has posited him as the next black hope. Recently one academic called him ...
Tax rebates start going out this week, earlier than planned
May 01, 2008; ... WASHINGTON: TAX REBATES were set to go out this week, starting Monday (28), earlier than previously announced. President Bush announced the change in schedule on Friday. "Starting Monday, the effects of the stimulus will begin to reach millions of households across our country," ...
Time for political consensus
May 01, 2008; ... THE DEBATE over dual citizenship which has hung as a shadow over the sevenmonth-old JLP administration is approaching a decisive and critical phase. It is critical because the slim majority held by the Government is a matter of concern, notwithstanding the prime minister's reference to the ...
Soaring costs force many Florida workers to drop health insurance
May 01, 2008; ... SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL: RISING PREMIUMS mean many drop or trim coverage Florida workers' health insurance costs climbed nearly one-third between 2001 and 2005 while income rose only slightly, a national trend that is still worsening and is straining the health-care system and ...
Will Crist sign bill allowing landlords to charge 'early termination' fees?
May 01, 2008; ... SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL: A YEAR ago, Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed a bid to impose new fees on Florida renters who break their leases. Will the governor do it again? By a 38-0 vote, the Senate on Monday shipped to Crist a bill to change the state's 35-year-old ...
Diaspora youth discuss issues of leadership
May 01, 2008; ... YOUTH OF the Jamaican diaspora in Canada gathered in Toronto recently to discuss issues of leadership and their contribution to Jamaica and to Canada. The issues ranged from overcoming the generation gap with their parents, combating the negative stereotypes of Jamaicans, seeking political ...
Proud to be JAMAICAN
May 01, 2008; ... ATHLETES DID NOT DISAPPOINT AT 2008 PENN RELAYS (ProQuest: ... denotes obscured text omitted.) Philadelphia, PA: JAMAICA SHOWED the world what was in store for them as they gave the Penn spectators and television viewers a dress rehearsal of the upcoming Olympics in ...
Jamaican Bell, quits in Poland
May 01, 2008; ... KATOWICE, Poland, (CMC): O'NEIL BELL'S comeback-bid ended in major disappointment when he quit against Tomasz Adamek and lost the important International Boxing Federation (IBF) cruiserweight title eliminator on Saturday night, April 19. Adamek, in front of his home crowd, had been ...
Kirk Ziadie wins twice in Florida
May 01, 2008; ... HALLANDALE, Florida (CMC): THE SUCCESSFUL Jamaican racehorse trainer, Kirk Ziadie collected a pair of wins at different tracks in Florida recently. Ziadie, the reigning Calder champion trainer, won at Tampa Bay Downs on Saturday, April 19 and appeared at Gulfstream on Sunday, April 20, for a ...
Hyde and Duckie fired
May 01, 2008; ... IN A twist of fate, Lenny 'Teacher' Hyde and Donovan -LOuckie, local coaches drafted as assistants to technical director Rene Simoes in the national programme, have been fired by their respective Premier League clubs, Harbour View and St Georges of Portland. Hyde, a former schoolboy and ...
Gaye McDonald on the rise
May 01, 2008; ... PULSE SUPERMODEL inthe - making Gaye McDonald continues to rise and rise. Not content with her Vogue, Cosmo, Trace or New York Times magazine editorials or her Benetton, Nordstrom, Deisel, and Mac campaigns, Gaye became the hot new star of the Fashion-week circuit this season, nabbing many of ...
Mutabaruka delivers Word Soun's at Liberty Hall
May 01, 2008; ... Mutabaruka delivers Word Soun's at Liberty Hall BEFORE POET Mutabaruka performed at Word Soun's, held at Liberty Hall, Kingston, on Sunday, April 20, curator Donna McFarlane noted that it was an event that had been on the cards for some time. "He is what we call a very close ...
Jamaica's Famous 'unknown' fighter for Human Rights: Bromley L. Armstrong
May 01, 2008; ... BROMLEYL LOYD Armstrong spoke with me in Kingston on February 19, 2008. 'We changed the complexion of Canada and you'd be surprised, what amuses me about my life is that most Jamaicans don't know what Fve done." What 82 year-old Bromley L. Armstrong did was to win the first legal test ...
Tivoli's aspirations crushed
May 01, 2008; ... TIVOLI GARDENS' aspirations of lifting the National Premier League tide received a crushing blow when they were trodden on 2-1 by a rampaging Boys' Town in a mustwin situation at Collie Smith Drive on Sunday, April 27. Already trailing leaders Portmore by eight points, with only three ...
POWELL OUT FOR EIGHT WEEKS
May 01, 2008; ... "WORLD 100M record holder Asafa Powell has been ruled out of action for close to eight weeks because of a chest muscle problem and will not compete again until the National Athletics Championships, to be held from June 27-29 at the National Stadium. "The pectoral injury that he has is ...
RJR Group undergoes management changes
May 01, 2008; ... THE RJR Communications Group has announced changes in its management structure aimed at implementing new strategic competitive adjustments in the media industry. In a release, the company said the changes had introduced steps to improve profitability and increase market ...
Water rate rises
May 01, 2008; ... CONSUMERS WILL have to pay 28 per cent more on their water bills. The National Water Commission (NWC) on Monday, April 28, announced a 23 per cent rate hike, plus a further five per cent charge for the newly introduced K-factor programme. This means an additional $200 for most ...
DANVILLE WALKS
May 08, 2008; ... Director of elections resigns over US citizenship ELECTORAL OFFICIALS have started a frantic search for a new director of elections following Monday's sudden resignation of Danville Walker. Walker who had held the position for 10 years, resigned at a time when there is much ...
Lyn-Sue gets six months for fabricating evidence
May 08, 2008; ... DETECTIVE CONSTABLE Carey Lyn-Sue, who pleaded guilty to perverting the course of public justice after a much-publicised confession to fabricating evidence in a murder case, was on Monday, May 5, sentenced to six months in prison. Resident Magistrate Winsome Henry, who handed down the ...
Cuban aid still intact
May 08, 2008; ... HAVANA, Cuba: THE CUBAN government will continue to offer technical aid and other forms of assistance to Jamaica, despite the questions surrounding the controversial light-bulb distribution programme. Hundreds of the four million energy-saving bulbs, donated to Jamaican to be ...
'I will not be swayed!'
May 08, 2008; ... PEOPLE'S NATIONAL Party (PNP) caretaker Abe Dabdoub says he is prepared to take his battle for the West Portland seat to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The PNP candidate, who polled 944 votes fewer than Daryl Vaz of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) on election day, September ...
'Sloppy autopsies'
May 08, 2008; ... CLAIMS THAT shoddy post-mortems were compromising police investigations have strained the relationship between government pathologists and the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI). In at least one case, state minister for national security, Arthur Williams, intervened to defuse the ...
Death threat on McKenzie's life
May 08, 2008; ... KINGSTON MAYOR Desmond McKenzie said he will be making a formal report to the Police High Command that gunmen from a well-known central Kingston community have threatened to kill him. McKenzie, who was addressing Jamaica Labour Party supporters at the Area Council One meeting in Port ...
Poultry consumers buy small to offset price
May 08, 2008; ... RISING FOOD prices have sent consumers searching for smaller parcels of chicken meat in the supermarket, resulting in a three to five per cent drop in sales at Caribbean Broilers, the island's second largest commercial producer of chicken meat. Corporate affairs manager at Caribbean ...
$300m rice plan- Stanberry
May 08, 2008; ... 6,000 acres for rice production JAMAICA, WITH the backing of private sector interests, will put 6,000 acres into rice production, a plan that calls for investments of about $300 million, possibly more. The idea emerged last week in talks between the agriculture ministry and ...
Supreme Ventures shelves expansion plans
May 08, 2008; ... CITING HIGHER oil and food prices and softening of economic conditions, Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) has shelved all expansion plans, and has replaced its capital-investment programme with a promise to pay big dividends to shareholders. The company, whose retained earnings top $648 ...
Children? What children?
May 08, 2008; ... RECENTLY, I was getting some certificates photocopied in York Plaza (Half-Way Tree). While waiting, I randomly surveyed the parking lot and couldn't help but notice two uniformed schoolgirls saunter up to a nearby column and just stand there. I'm always wary of extraordinarily neatlooking ...
Food security and Carib integration
May 08, 2008; ... EDITORIAL WITH MORE than a nudge from global conditions, the wheel, at last, may be about to complete its first circle. And, it is no time to let up. If anything, we should be adding momentum, even as we adjust the paradigm within which the wheel will now have to turn. The ...
'Green card' love story comes to Toronto
May 08, 2008; ... DAVID HERON's Love and Marriage and New York City opens in Toronto for a limited run, at the Premiere Dance Theatre, at the Harbourfront Centre, on Friday, May 16, at 8p.m.. The smash hit comedy continues Saturday, May 17, at 3p.m. and 8pm and Sunday May 18 at 2:30 and 7:30pm. Marriage, ...
Sheppard Public to host Africentric school
May 08, 2008; ... TORONTO: SHEPPARD PUBLIC school will have an Africentric alternative unit at that location come September 2009. The Africentric school will run as a school-within-a-school for junior kindergarten through Grade 5 in an unused section of Sheppard Public School. The proposed ...
World Bank says make sending remittances 'less costly'
May 08, 2008; ... WHILE IT'S estimate of transfers was lower at US$60 billion, the World Bank suggested last month that to maximise cross-border money flows, governments within the Caribbean and Latin American region should reshape remittance policies to make it less costly for migrants to send funds home, and ...
REMITTANCES SLOW TO A TRICKLE
May 08, 2008; ... MIF poll shows declining transfers to Latin America, Carib regions A NEW poll commissioned by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) has found that fewer migrants are remitting funds to the Latin America and Caribbean regions, as the crawling US economy devours jobs and erodes ...
Government committed to signing EPA
May 08, 2008; ... PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC: THE TRINIDAD and Tobago government has recommitted to signing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), agreed between the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) countries and the European Union (EU) late last year. The accord is due to be signed by the end of next ...
Labour scholar calls for corporate accountability
May 08, 2008; ... A LABOUR scholar based in the United States is urging workers to hold corporations accountable to internationally recognised labour standards. Katie Quan, the Associate Chair of the Centre for Labour Research and Education at the University of California, Berkeley was the keynote speaker ...
Journalists award scholarships
May 08, 2008; ... TORONTO: THE CANADIAN Association of Black Journalists(CABJ) has offered four scholarships to Canadian students of African or Caribbean descent towards post secondary journalism studies. The package includes a scholarship from CABJ for journalism and public relations ($1000); two ...
US Congresswoman makes appeal for Haiti
May 08, 2008; ... WASHINGTON, CMC: CARIBBEAN AMERICAN Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has joined the United States' Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in its appeal for more aid to help Haiti in its current food crisis. In a statement issued here, Clarke, who represents the 11th Congressional District in ...
Hundreds expected at International Black Summit in July
May 08, 2008; ... THE VALLEY, Anguille, CMC: ORGANISERS OF the 18th International Black Summit said more than 500 people from the Caribbean, Africa, the United States, Canada and Latin America are expected to attend the July 31 - August 3 event. Ijahyna Christian, a member of the local organising ...
Review of Spring dance performances
May 08, 2008; ... Review of Spring dance performances TORONTONIANS KNOW its Spring when activities kick off at the Harbourfront Centre. In mid-April, the Harbourfront featured Spring Works from Ballet Creole and Chapel/Chapter by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (USA). Patrick Parson, ...
Irregularities revealed at immigration department
May 08, 2008; ... ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC: PRIME MINISTER Baldwin Spencer on Friday announced new rules governing the issuing of temporary residence status to nonnationals after an audit of the immigration department unearthed irregularities in the issuing process. TEMPORARY RESIDENCE In ...
Vinyl Record Collectors Association members take a spin to Florida
May 08, 2008; ... SOUTH FLORIDA: THE VINYL Record Collectors Association will host its 10th annual 'gathering' in Fort Lauderdale over the memorial holiday weekend (May 23-26). The event will see record vinyl collectors from different chapters, from various parts of the US, Canada and the ...
World Bank to assist CARICOM address pressing challenges
May 08, 2008; ... GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC: THE WORLD Bank is preparing to assist the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in the areas of climate change and dealing with the rising cost of living. World Bank Regional Director, Yvonne Tsikata, who recently visited Guyana to meet with government and ...
Science symposium and fair promises exciting 'firsts'
May 08, 2008; ... TORONTO: VISIONS OF Science Network for Learning (VoSNL) will hold its 17th Annual Visions 2008 Science Symposium and second Annual Science Fair on Saturday May 10th, 11am - 5pm, at the Medical Science Building, 1 Kings College Circle University of Toronto. This year's exhibit ...
Ready for the experience
May 08, 2008; ... April Jackson, Miss Ja Universe 2008 Barbara Ellington Weekly Gleaner Reporter MISS JAMAICA Universe 2008, April Jackson, may hold a British passport, but she is as Jamaican as those who claim they were 'born under the clock'. The product of divorced parents is a daddy's ...
Giving rocksteady its due
May 08, 2008; ... HE MAY have played some of the 'baddest' bass lines in Jamaican popular music, but Jackie Jackson is far from a household name. In fact, most persons know him as the husband of singer Karen Smith. Get Ready To Rocksteady, a film on the beat that preceded reggae, gives musicians like ...
Trelawny stadium impresses FIFA official
May 08, 2008; ... FOLLOWING AN inspection of the Trelawny Multi-Purpose Stadium on Tuesday, April 29, FIFA's venue inspector David Sabir all but fully endorsed the US$30 million facility as a suitable venue to host the second leg 2010 World Cup qualifier between Jamaica and the Bahamas in June. "What I ...
Portmore celebrate Premier League title
May 08, 2008; ... PORTMORE UNITED on Wednesday, April 30, dotted the i's and crossed the t's with a comprehensive 3-0 win over Waterhouse to officially lift the 2007-2008 Premier League title with two games to spare. Thunderous shots from outside the box in the 22nd and 61st minutes from Bryan Bayliss and ...
US teen surprises Veronica Campbell-Brown in 200m
May 08, 2008; ... JAMAICA'S WORLD 100m gold medallist, Veronica Campbell-Brown, was surprised by 19-year-old American Bianca Knight in the 200 metres at the fifth Jamaica International Invitational meet on Saturday night, May 3. Knight, the 2005 World Youth Championships 100m gold medallist, proved ...
'I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS GOING THAT FAST'
May 08, 2008; ... USAIN BOLT rocketed to number two on the all-time 100 metres list when he produced a fantastic 9.76 seconds run on May 3 to blow away his rivals in the men's 100 metres, and stun more than 12,000 spectators who turned up at the National Stadium for the fifth running of the Jamaica International ...
CABINET SHUFFLE
May 15, 2008; ... Smith shunted MacMillan security czar UNDER PRESSURE to assure critics that his government has answers to Jamaica's spiralling crime rate, Prime Minister Bruce Golding this week undertook his first major Cabinet shuffle, shunting Derrick Smith from the security portfolio and replacing ...