JLP revving up election campaign
THE JAMAICA Labour Party is to launch the second phase of its general election campaign with a mass meeting on August 25 at South Parade, downtown Kingston, Edward Seaga, the party leader, announced yesterday. He said the party had...
PM hints at date for polls
IN WHAT might be his clearest indication yet of the date of the upcoming general election, Prime Minister P. J. Patterson on Wednesday night in Annotto Bay, St. Mary, hinted at the possibility of it being around the end of...
Parents urged to control the remote
HAS YOUR television set become nothing more than a cheap babysitter? Have you ever wondered what all that bad language, sex and violence does to your children's behaviour? The signing of the Children's Code of Programming...
Ratings for TV, cable stations
CABLE TELEVISION providers, local television and radio stations will be expected to organise their programming in line with acceptable content standards, following yesterday's signing of the Children's Charter for...
Ja unlikely to accept US garbage - Waste official
JAMAICA IS unlikely to agree to a proposal aimed at dumping solid waste from the United States on offshore countries in the Caribbean in exchange for payment, says Alston Stewart, chairman of the National Waste Management...
Jagdeo optimistic about future of the Caribbean
IN THE wake of recent violence in Guyana, President Bharrat Jagdeo, returns there from Jamaica today "optimistic about the future of the region." Speaking at a press conference in Kingston yesterday, the 38-year-old President conceded that the region...
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