Yardee! Gleaner News Blog http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress Yardee! Gleaner News Blog - bringing Jamaica to Jamaicans and the World Fri, 18 May 2012 23:35:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Kingston monuments to get Labour Day facelift http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86686 http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86686#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 13:10:04 +0000 Gleaner http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86686 St William Grant Park and the Ward Theatre will receive much-needed clean-ups on Labour Day. Town Clerk Errol Greene explained that both sites were the joint parish project for Kingston and part of a wider, massive clean-up…

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]]> http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=86686 Give us hope http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86687 http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86687#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 13:10:04 +0000 Gleaner http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86687 When Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips tells the nation how the Government will finance the Budget next week, among the keen listeners will be the Private Sector Working Group…

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]]> http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=86687 Holy duty http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86688 http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86688#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 13:10:04 +0000 Gleaner http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86688 Newly installed Anglican Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, the Right Reverend Dr Howard Gregory, is urging the church to dissociate itself from tainted money, which continues to circulate in the society where corruption is rampant….

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]]> http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=86688 Total number of children currently enrolled in early-childhood institutions http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86684 http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86684#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 13:10:03 +0000 Gleaner http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86684 WESTERN BUREAU: Retired Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas is heading to the Ministry of National Security where he will take up the post of police welfare…

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]]> http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=86684 Cayman crabs considered hurricane warning http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86685 http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86685#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 13:10:03 +0000 Gleaner http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86685 WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica is not the only Caribbean island experiencing an influx of millions of crabs. One of its closest neighbours, Cayman Brac, is also reporting the phenomenon….

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]]> http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=86685 Holiday jobs: Are they available? http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86679 http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86679#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 13:10:02 +0000 Gleaner http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86679 Gone are the days when tertiary and highschool students were guaranteed summer employment. Thankfully, a few are still available. Digicel Jamaica offers internship opportunities for university graduates under its annual Graduate Recruitment Programme…

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]]> http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=86679 Digicel Foundation provides feeding tubes for children in state care http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86680 http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86680#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 13:10:02 +0000 Gleaner http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86680 A review of the cases of death of children in residential homes by the Serious Case Review Panel of the Child Development Agency (CDA) has highlighted that the majority are related to children who suffer from neurodevelopmental disabilities….

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]]> http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=86680 Visa facilitation to create millions of jobs in G20 countries http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86681 http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86681#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 13:10:02 +0000 Gleaner http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86681 WESTERN BUREAU: With the prospects of visa facilitation creating some five million additional jobs in G20 economies, Jamaica has thrown its full support behind the drive to improve the ease of travel for international…

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]]> http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=86681 Teachers’ association has too much teeth - Thompson http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86682 http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86682#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 13:10:02 +0000 Gleaner http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86682 Veteran educator Dr Ralph Thompson feels it is time to “defang” the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), describing it as “a militant trade union with great power”.”There seems to be nothing in the system to balance this power…

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]]> http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=86682 Umbrella gang members convicted of shooting charges http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86683 http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86683#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 13:10:02 +0000 Gleaner http://www.yardee.com/blogging/wordpress/?p=86683 THE top brass of the St Catherine South Police Division have been patting themselves on the back after two alleged top-ranking members of Portmore’s Umbrella Gang were convicted in the Gun Court division of the Corporate…

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