Kingston

It's time for Christmas ham again!

jamaica-gleaner.com
13-Nov-2008
        

Twenty-year-Old Old MacDonald Farms is once again on the road with it's annual ham-tasting exercise in schools and corporate offices in Kingston, St Andrew and Clarendon. On Tuesday, members of The Gleaner Company's staff...

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Retracing Ian Fleming`s haunts in Jamaica

mi6.co.uk
13-Nov-2008 4 related
        

'The first law for a secret agent is to get his geography right," Ian Fleming wrote in "The Man With the Golden Gun." And so it is for anyone following the trail of the man who created the world's most famous secret agent...

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Douglas Parmée: Cambridge modern languages don

timesonline.co.uk
13-Nov-2008
        

Douglas Parmée was a lecturer in modern languages at Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens’ College for 60 years. He was also known as a fine and wideranging translator. His translations included Effi Briest (Theodor Fontane) and...

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Elderly men sentenced for human trafficking

jamaica-gleaner.com
12-Nov-2008
        

Despite pleas from defence lawyers for a non-custodial sentence, two elderly men were yesterday each sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for conspiracy to trafficking in persons involving a 14-year-old girl.In sentencing...

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Citigroup exec lands FSC job

jamaica-gleaner.com
12-Nov-2008
        

Rohan Barnett, an attorney who up to this year, worked with the world's largest bank, Citigroup, has been handed the job of running the Financial Services Commission (FSC), Finance Minister Audley Shaw announced...

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Johnson ready for Reggae Boyz

teamtalk.com
11-Nov-2008
        

Jermaine Johnson has been included in John Barnes' Jamaica squad for next week's crucial World Cup qualifier against Canada. The Reggae Boyz take on Canada in Kingston on November 19 in a game they must win in order to qualify...

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Men plead guilty to trafficking charges

jamaica-gleaner.com
11-Nov-2008 4 related
        

Two elderly men who were the first to be arrested in Jamaica for trafficking in persons have pleaded guilty to the charge.They are 52-year-old woodcrafter Agon Stephens, and 54-year-old businessman and taxi operator Narcot...

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Bolt on top - Olympian cops Gleaner's top award

jamaica-gleaner.com
11-Nov-2008
        

Usain Bolt's trophy cabinet is getting awfully packed. After months of receiving national gold medals, honours and dozens of gifts and prizes, 'Lightning Bolt' took home another august award yesterday when he was named The...

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Walker stepping up Portland development

jamaica-gleaner.com
11-Nov-2008
        

Stunned silence is perhaps the only way to respond when you hear Nellie Walker casually say she is "not a natural leader". When you consider that she is currently the branch manager for FirstCaribbean Bank in Port Antonio,...

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Modernisation key to electoral integrity - PM

jamaica-gleaner.com
11-Nov-2008
        

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has praised the development of Caribbean electoral systems but urged governments not to become complacent."We make an error if we ever become complacent. "We make an error if we ever become...

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