Sonny blows his last - Jamaican jazz icon dies at 83
Legendary Jamaican bandleader and jazz instrumentalist, Sonny Bradshaw, who stamped a lasting footprint on the island's musical landscape, has died. The celebrated trumpeter, who was 83 years old, passed away in a London hospital on Saturday night...
Bauxite sours milk
The Windalco bauxite plants in Kirkvine, Manchester, and Ewarton, St Catherine, were in many ways the land of milk and honey, part of Jamaica's foreign-exchange cash cows. But few would have thought that the shuttering of the plants earlier this year...
COMMUNITY HEROES - Lowe puts 'Ochi' on high
OCHO RIOS, St Ann: The academic achievements of 18-year-old Yanique Lowe of Ocho Rios High School are motivation for her schoolmates and students from other schools.
Mario Palmer, a former Brown's Town High School student who is now enrolled in sixth form...
Montego Bay businessman awarded Catholic honour
WESTERN BUREAU: Western Jamaica businessman Guiseppe Maffessanti is the latest Catholic to make the honour roll, having been appointed to the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St Gregory the Great at a special Mass at the Blessed Sacrament Cathedral, Montego Bay...
Theft triggers power cuts in Clarendon
Up to press time last evening, some 18,000 Clarendon residents served by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) were left in darkness after fire damaged sections of the Parnassus substation in the parish yesterday afternoon. Ruthlyn Johnson...
Gov't mulls over honouring Rangel
THE JAMAICAN Government is yet to say whether it will press ahead with plans to honour United States Congressman Charles Rangel, despite his being at the centre of a major tax-evasion investigation. Rangel was selected to receive a medal at this year's National Honours ...
Bartlett defends office revamp
WESTERN BUREAU: Disputing yesterday's Sunday Gleaner report about millions spent on a makeover of his office, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says 75 per cent of the money spent on his New Kingston offices made it more energy-efficient...