Posts Tagged The Jamaican Gleaner
Rev. Al Miller Goes Back to Church
Posted by ShopinJA in Breaking News on June 29th, 2010
Controversial pastor the Reverend Merrick ‘Al’ Miller’s returned to church yesterday, Sunday June 27, 2010 since being charged with harboring a fugitive and perverting the course of justice. Miller’s role in the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke saga came to a climax when he was found in the presence of the fugitive who has since been extradited to the United States to face drug and gunrunning charges.
Inna De Yard: Scheed Cole
Posted by ShopinJA in Featured Post on June 23rd, 2010
Inna De Yard is a series produced by The Gleaner that examines the roles of city dwellers in the capital of Jamaica: Kingston. Scheed Cole developed his skills as an artist while growing up in an inner city community, and is using them to survive, thrive, and train others in his community with a plethora of creative media.
Interviews: Mark Beckford Media and production: Kyle Macpherson
We’ve Got Him!
Posted by ShopinJA in Breaking News on June 23rd, 2010
Jamaica’s No. 1 fugitive Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke spent last night in an unidentified maximum-security facility as the long search for him came to an end.
A less intimidating Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, who the police say was found disguised in a wig. -courtesy of cvm tv
After a bloody battle to capture Coke in his Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston, enclave last month, he was held yesterday without one shot being fired.
Coke was held about 4 p.m. yesterday, bringing to a close a monthlong islandwide manhunt. Sources say he was found with a wig that was used as a disguise.
He was reportedly being taken by the Reverend Al Miller, the prominent cleric who facilitated the surrender of two of Coke’s siblings, to the United States Embassy in Kingston when he was held.
Miller was travelling with Coke on Mandela Highway close to the border of St Andrew and St Catherine when the police stopped the vehicle.
“The police were monitoring a vehicle checkpoint on the Mandela Highway and they were acting on intelligence,” Police Commissioner Owen Ellington told journalists during a press conference at his Old Hope Road, St Andrew, office yesterday afternoon.
Coke was leaving St Catherine on the same day Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced a state of emergency would be established in that parish.
Yesterday, Ellington refused to say if any “armed militiamen” had also been held.
GSAT JOY
Posted by ShopinJA in Breaking News on June 18th, 2010
TENS OF thousands of students across Jamaica will finally be free of hand-wringing, hair-pulling anxiety when they find out the results of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) which are scheduled to be released today.
Eager students at Half-Way Tree Primary School in St Andrew vie to respond to a question during class yesterday. They are among nearly 50,000 students who will today find out their placements according to GSAT results. - Photo by Nadisha Hunter
Suspense will likely morph into elation for most, as Colin Blair, communications director at the Ministry of Education, confirmed yesterday that the 2010 grades were an improvement over last year’s. Blair also sought to assure that there was sufficient space in the high-school system to accommodate all students who sat the exam.
Despite the nerves, however, students expressed confidence on Thursday that they were well on their way to gaining spots in choice schools.
School administrators and teachers shared similar enthusiasm, saying that although they were a bit tense, they knew the students would make them proud.
At Windward Road Primary School in Kingston, students juggled attention between taking photographs for their graduation package and hoping to get word of the results from their teachers.
“They are excited now because they are taking pictures, but they continued to ask when they will get the results,” said grade-six teacher Esmie Crawford.
Vice-principal Noel Pennant, who seemed confident that the students would be successful, said the school had done its best, with help from devoted parents.
“We tried to get the parents involved in the students’ work because we saw the need for parents’ involvement and they have been working with us, and so we expect that what we normally get, in terms of traditional high schools, should be higher compared with last year,” he boasted.
