Rodrigo Duterte, the controversial mayor of Davao City, appeared to win the presidential election in thePhilippines on Monday night, besting four challengers despite a campaign marred by rape jokes, death threats and various obscenities ... Under Philippine election law, the candidate with the most votes wins even without a clear majority ... “TheU.S....
A team of 50 doctors and nurses assisted with the planned caesarean and all of the children were born healthy. The chance of conceiving quintuplets naturally is about one in 55 million. Mrs Tucci's story gained prominence through her Facebook page, Surprised by Five, where she recorded the details of her pregnancy....
Russian PresidentVladimir Putin is apparently well admired in his country, but a poll shows he is also respected beyond the boundaries of his own nation, Newsweek reports.Although the Kremlin’s violent foreign policy is noteworthy, Putin ranks as the sixth most-admired man in the world in an annual survey by pollster YouGov – that’s five places higher compared to his 2015 result....
Every rule can be broken, especially by the man who made it ... On Monday, theGOP presidential candidate said he was “happy” that Britain’s capital city had elected its first Muslim mayor and suggested that Khan would be among the exceptions to his proposal to stop Muslims from entering theU.S ... “If Donald Trump becomes the president, I’ll be stopped from going there by virtue of my faith.”....
TheFort Worth Symphony Orchestra will be offering some lunchtime concerts next week ... If you would like to eat your lunch before or after the concert, the Maddox-Muse Canteen will be open ... During theSpring and Fall semesters, theModern Art Museum of Fort Worth offers the Tuesday Evening Lectures. This summer that program will extend into the summer with free Film screenings ... TheGleaners & I (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse), 2000....
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground – Theodore Roosevelt...There is a tragic ‘suffera mentality’ that was spawned in the1970s, which has and is still fuelled and fed by certain pseudo-intellectual types in thePeople’s National Party (PNP) ... The baby was born innocent ... TheGleaner of April 29, 2016, Jamaicans from all walks of life are lining up to help her access her true quota of greatness....
TheGleaner newspaper believes it knows better than theGovernment of Jamaica and the people who elected it a mere nine weeks ago ...TheGleaner does a disservice to the people of Jamaica who said by their votes that thePNP had failed to ease their hurt and was showing no skill or talent that would suggest that growth would come anytime soon ... TheGleaner’s implied suggestion that we are not capable of doing that is un-Jamaican....
The sale was disclosed in year-end financials published this week. The company continues to restructure its operations with a view to regaining profitability ... Other top shareholders include theGleanerCompany and SupremeVenturesLtd. Attempts to find out from directors who was the new owner and the price at which thePortmore property was sold were not successful up to press time....
According to JamaicaGleaner, police have called an emergency press conference in the wake of the missionaries murdered in Jamaica while building homes for an impoverished community, which will take place this afternoon at 5.30 p.m ...The press conference which is scheduled to start at 5.30 p.m will be hosted at the office of Police CommissionerDr CarlWilliams in St Andrew,” reports Jamaica Gleaner ... The Inquisitr News ....
Is Matt Bevin, the governor of Kentucky, finally so out of control that theFBI is stepping in to shut down a reign of terror that has further decimated one of the most at-risk states in America? ...As of April 29, according to TheGleaner, Matt Bevin has announced that there are now new centers open to assist those with Benefind troubles over the past two months ... The Inquisitr News ....
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant ...Nelson Mandela, former South African president, co-founder of theAfrican National Congress’s YouthLeague, and freedom fighter extraordinaire famously said ... TheGleaner, March 26, 2014) ... TheGleaner, July 11, 2012) ... Again, the numbers tell the sad story ... TheGleaner’s Man of the Year ... TheGleaner, July 29, 2007....
Sometimes they ran into opposition from the very people they were trying to serve ... “I was glad that Mr Manley came down to enter the breach ... Five years later, while the results were coming in for the second election, Busta was at his Shanty Town headquarters in Mocho, in his own constituency, when theGleaner’s Trueman and Trottman came over and broke the news of Busta’s victory....
"The April 5, 2016 ... "Two weeks after the cartoon was published, the April 19 issue of TheGleaner contained a letter from theMuslim Brotherhood campus group, theMuslim Students Association, saying that it found the image offensive and asking TheGleaner to remove the image from the April 5 issue and circulate a new edition of that issue without it....
Rejuvenation of Britain’s "most beautiful shortcut” could include turning disused buildings into arts venues along theCrinan Canal. The proposal is among a number being discussed at a series of meetings this week over the future of the 215-year-old Argyll waterway ... Ms Tobin said potential development sites included theGleaner fuel depot close to the canal's sea lock in Ardrishaig and around the canal basin....
THERE is probably a perverse pride in my administration...that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular ... At the JNIP, Shaw was in charge of operations at the agency’s marketing and overseas offices in theUnited States, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, and theUnited Kingdom in the1980s ... The. Gleaner newspaper even made him its Man of the Year for 2015. The prestigious....