http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/ Everyday Matters editor@jamaicaobserver.com (Editor Editor) tavaresd@jamaicaobserver.com (Deron Tavares) en-jm Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:00:59 GMT 60 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:00:59 GMT MEMBER of Parliament for West Kingston Prime Minister Bruce Golding on Sunday claimed that there was positive transformation between garrison communities, and individuals who once considered themselves foes were now traversing each other's communities in his constituency. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T210000-0500_164123_OBS_GOLDING_CLAIMS__GARRISON_TRANSFORMATION_.asp Verona Samuels and Natalie Sill, the two jurors who police say were caught accepting money from the mother of a man accused of the murder of an ex-cop, were remanded in custody when they appeared in the Clarendon Circuit Court yesterday. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T210000-0500_164150_OBS_NO_BAIL___JURORS_ON_CORRUPTION_RAP_REMANDED_.asp HOMICIDE detectives in St Thomas yesterday identified two women as 'persons of interest' in the murder of 93-year-old Albert Milner. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T210000-0500_164147_OBS_COPS_SEEK_WOMEN_IN_MURDER_OF____Y_O_MAN.asp THE ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is to throw a heavy security blanket around its 66th annual conference this Sunday at the National Arena, searching everyone, except diplomats and armed guards assigned to the prime minister's security detail. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T210000-0500_164129_OBS_TIGHT_SECURITY_FOR_JLP_S___TH_ANNUAL_CONFERENCE_.asp A man who had waited for more than six hours to be called for sentence ended up in jail after a judge ordered a warrant for his arrest because he wasn't in court at the time his name was called - two hours after Wednesday's scheduled 4:00 pm close of the Trelawny Circuit Court. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T210000-0500_164149_OBS_SHORT_BREAK_LANDS_MAN_IN_JAIL_AFTER_ALL_DAY_COURT_WAIT.asp A large crowd outside the Digicel outlet in Tropical Plaza late yesterday, trying to get inside the store to take advantage of a one-day 'trade-in' promotion. The promotion allowed individuals to trade in cellphones hooked up to other networks for Digicel units, plus $1,200 credit. The promotion, which was announced yesterday, resulted in hundreds of persons rushing to the store and police being called in to maintain order. The Observer, however, could not ascertain whether there were similar scenes at other participating outlets in New Kingston and Portmore. (Photo: Marlon Reid) http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T210000-0500_164148_OBS_CELLPHONE_RUSH_.asp JUST under 500 students are likely to be banned from sitting their end-of-semester examinations at the University of Technology (UTech) because of non-payment of tuition fees, the university said yesterday. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T210000-0500_164128_OBS______NOT_______STUDENTS_FACE_EXAM_BAN__SAYS_UTECH.asp JUST weeks before the National Transport Co-operative Society (NTCS) is to wind up its operations in the Corporate Area, the state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) says it has not yet identified enough contractors to service some of its routes in St Andrew and St Catherine. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T210000-0500_164125_OBS_JUTC_STILL_WITHOUT_CONTRACTORS_TO_SERVICE_SOME_ROUTES_.asp The driver of this Toyota motor car had to be treated for minor injuries at hospital after he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a utility pole on Hope Road in St Andrew yesterday. According to the police, the accident occurred minutes after the driver was strongly reprimanded by officers for driving with unsafe tyres. (Photo: Michael Gordon) http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T210000-0500_164124_OBS_CRASH_AFTER_POLICE_WARNING_.asp Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer, chairperson of the board of supervision of Friends of the Homeless, hugs Mayor of Kingston Desmond Mckenzie at the official launch and fund-raising luncheon for Friends of the Homeless at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St Andrew Wednesday. (Photo: Garfield Robinson) http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T210000-0500_164122_OBS_SO_HAPPY_TO_SEE_YOU_.asp SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Senior St Catherine resident magistrate Marcia Dunbar-Green has charged that many resident magistrates are not reflecting the interest or ambition of youths and called on government to act swiftly to consider cognitive and emotional development when they are crafting judicial responses to the social problems being experienced by children. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T210000-0500_164121_OBS_RM_CALLS_FOR_EMPATHY_WHEN_DEALING_WITH_YOUNG_OFFENDERS_.asp THE Clarendon police are reporting that the relative calm which now prevails in the district of Lionel Town is a result of the dismantling of the King Street gang. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T210000-0500_164116_OBS_POLICE_DISMANTLE_CLARENDON_GANG.asp PRIME Minister Bruce Golding will lead Jamaica's delegation to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting from November 27-29 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T220000-0500_164111_OBS_PM_LEADS_DELEGATION_TO_COMMONWEALTH_HEADS_OF_GOVERNMENT_MEETING_.asp A group of leading regional experts will meet today in Port-of-Spain to discuss and make recommendations for new modelling strategies for the Caribbean. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T220000-0500_164110_OBS_REGION_S_EXPERTS_MEET_ON_NEW_ECONOMIC_STRATEGIES_.asp HAVANA, Cuba (AP) - President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T220000-0500_164107_OBS_OBAMA_ANSWERS_QUESTIONS_FROM_RENOWNED_CUBAN_BLOGGER.asp THE rise in the number of reprisal killings which target children, has led Osbourne Bailey - a minister of religion - to theorise that the devious actions are linked to what he says is a resurgence of men with criminal links in the lives of their offspring. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T230000-0500_164112_OBS_PASTOR_LINKS__BAD_DADS__TO_RISE_IN_VIOLENCE_AGAINST_CHILDREN.asp TODAY is Friday, November 20, the 324th day of 2009. There are 41 days left in the year. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091119T220000-0500_164109_OBS_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY.asp