Archive for February, 2009

Fruitful Vale, the hometown of Dr Patrick Allen, Jamaica’s sixth governor general, buzzed with excitement and high expectations yesterday, as church members, colleagues and relatives fully embraced his appointment. The mood at Fruitful Vale and Chatsworth, two adjoining…

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WESTERN BUREAU: Most residents in Montego Bay, St James were not interested in the installation ceremony for Dr Patrick Allen at King’s House in St Andrew yesterday.When The Gleaner visited several local bars in the Second City, persons were busy…

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AIR JAMAICA yesterday slashed four underperforming routes and terminated jobs at those locations, as administrators attempt to make the struggling airline attractive to prospective buyers. Bruce Nobles, president and chief executive officer of Air Jamaica…

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ROMAN CATHOLIC priest Father Richard Ho Lung says Jamaica should resist the temptation to accept “blood money” from European Union and United States agencies in exchange for legalising abortion. In a no-holds-barred presentation to the abortion committee in Parliament yesterday…

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THE FORMER leader of the West Indies Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Dr Patrick Allen, will today replace Professor Sir Kenneth Hall as governor general of Jamaica.Allen will be sworn in as the country’s sixth proxy head of state…

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Put an Adventist in a room and immediately the jokes start.There are snickers that they don’t eat pork, just the gravy, and that it’s crazy that they go 24 hours on the Sabbath without watching HBO or Cinemax? And don’t forget the usual jabs about whether Adventists should….

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The National Water Commission (NWC) says vandalism, theft and arson in some parishes continue to hamper the operations of the company.In a release on Tuesday, the utility company said business at two separate NWC waste-water facilities in St Catherine…

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A female cop is lucky to be alive after the private motor car she drove was transformed into a ball of twisted metal, following a collision with a garbage truck on Marcus Garvey Drive in St Andrew. Eye witnesses say the officer’s car was sent tumbling…

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