http://jamaica-gleaner.com/ The oldest and leading newspaper in Jamaica editor@gleanerjm.com (Garfield Grandison) roland.booth@gleanerjm.com (Roland Booth) en-us Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST 60 Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST Newspapers THE MURDER case against Eldon Calvert, the alleged leader of the Montego Bay based Stone Crusher gang, and two other men was thrown out yesterday because a policeman fabricated a witness statement. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead1.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead1.html WHAT WAS supposed to be an educational trip to St Mary Banana Plantation for a group of students of St Andrew College in Kingston ended in a tragic nightmare when two of the students drowned in neighbouring Portland. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead2.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead2.html MORE THAN four years after a second major collapse of a section of the North Coast Highway in St Mary which linked the community of Lebanon to Whitehall and Highgate, indications are that the roadway will not be repaired any time soon http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead3.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead3.html Buoyed by the success of the 2012 Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival, businessman Walter Elmore, chairman of Art of Music Productions which staged the annual event, thinks that if properly managed, entertainment tourism could become a major foreign exchange earner. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead5.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead5.html A complaint from a number of our visitors is that there is not enough live entertainment, so while we should have more large festivals, we could also include some small- to medium-size events. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead6.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead6.html Dr Mary Clarke, deputy chief education officer in the Ministry of Education, says Jamaica desperately needs a cultural renaissance to rescue the nation from self-destruction. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead7.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead7.html IN HIS second outing in pursuit of The Gleaner 2012 Spelling Bee championship title, 13-year-old Gifton Wright, representing Kingston College, improved his fourth-place finish in 2011 and pocketed the championship trophy. His win secured a place in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC, scheduled for later this year. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead9.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead9.html Senior technocrats, including Dr Carlton Davis and Winston Hay, yesterday acknowledged they have warmed to the new Government's endorsement of coal as a means of slashing energy costs and propelling production.... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead1.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead1.html With Jamaicans almost uniform in their belief that the cost of energy is retarding growth in all sectors of society, The Gleaner yesterday assembled a team of experts who had contributed to the latest edition of the Mona School of Business... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead2.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead2.html DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn has ruled that former Commissioner of Customs Danville Walker must be charged with failure to comply within the prescribed time, with regard... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead3.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120204/lead/lead3.html