http://jamaica-gleaner.com/ The oldest and leading newspaper in Jamaica editor@gleanerjm.com (Garfield Grandison) roland.booth@gleanerjm.com (Roland Booth) en-us Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST 60 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST Newspapers Children's Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison has commissioned an investigation through her office into the deaths of 15-year-old Shane Burke and 16-year-old Demel Osbourne, the St Andrew College students who drowned at the Shan Shay Beach last week in Portland... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead1.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead1.html Mayer Michael Matalon's grandchildren carry the coffin containing his body after the service of thanksgiving at the Sha'are Shalom Synagogue on Duke Street in downtown Kingston yesterday.... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead2.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead2.html PERMANENT SECRETARY in the Ministry of Transport and Works Audrey Sewell says the major hurdles in the process of carrying out a forensic audit of the US$400-million Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead3.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead3.html Despite an increase in the number of persons rescued from human traffickers in Jamaica, reports are now suggesting that more males are becoming victims of the trade. This was revealed yesterday by Orane Bailey, policy director for the Border Security and Control Unit... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead4.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead4.html Former Commissioner of Customs Danville Walker, who is charged with failure to comply within the prescribed time with a request from the Office of the Contractor General (OCG), is to appear in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on February... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead5.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead5.html Rasbert Turner, Gleaner WriterPolice have placed a woman in custody in connection with the death of her sister, whose body was found buried inside a house in Portmore, St Catherine, yesterday.Dead is Stacey-Ann Smith, 35-year-old labourer of Landport... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead6.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead6.html The Crown closed its case yesterday at the trial of Leighton 'Livity' Coke, brother of former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead7.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead7.html When Keith Hawkins thinks of his father, genuine, meticulous, prompt and hardworking are the words that come to mind.Franklin Hawkins, a former company secretary at The Gleaner, passed away yesterday morning at age 87. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead8.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead8.html Departing from recent calls by local religious leaders for the Government to actively put a stop to betting on horse racing on Sundays, president of the Miami-based...Inter- American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, Pastor Israel Leito.... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead1.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead1.html Traffic Division head Senior Superintendent of Police Radcliffe Lewis is calling for laws to be enacted to support the permanent seizure of vehicles which operate illegally as taxis.Lewis' desire has been triggered... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead2.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120207/lead/lead2.html