Voting machines for by-elections

THE ELECTORAL Advisory Committee (EAC) will be seeking the permission of Prime Minister P.J. Patterson to conduct local government by-elections using electronic equipment. The Prime Minister has responsibility for calling elections.

Prostate cancer up 60%

PRELIMINARY DATA from the Jamaica Cancer Registry are indicating a more than 60 per cent increase in prostate cancer among Jamaican men and also an increasing incidence of colorectal cancer in women. The data indicate a nearly 20 per cent increase in...

EAC to spend $3m on voter ID cards
THE ELECTORAL Advisory Committee (EAC) is to spend more than $3 million to deliver roughly 200,000 voter identification cards left uncollected since the general elections of December 1997. EAC chairman Professor Errol Miller said the commencement...

Sangster Airport sale delayed again
WESTERN BUREAU: THE MUCH-anticipated sale of the Montego Bay Sangster International Airport, slated by the Government to be finalised by the end of April, has been delayed yet again.

Grace, Kennedy lecture - Jamaica must move away from past - Prof Miller

JAMAICA'S COURSE in the 21st Century will be determined by the individual and collective choices made by its citizens says Professor Errol Miller, chairman of the Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC).