Rains wreak havoc
HEAVY RAINS, accompanied by lightning and thunder, wreaked havoc in three parishes yesterday, leaving many businesses and homes without electricity and causing damage at several more buildings...
Gov't defends opening of Horizon Remand Centre
GILBERT SCOTT, Permanent Secretary for National Security, has rejected claims that the Horizon Remand Centre, Spanish Town Road, Kingston, was opened prematurely. He states that a new strategy is on the way...
NWU blasts JLP manifesto
THE NATIONAL Workers' Union (NWU), which is allied to the governing People's National Party, has criticised the Jamaica Labour Party's election manifesto for what it says is a failure to deal with workers'...
JLP favours odd-number House of Representatives
THE OPPOSITION Jamaica Labour Party is proposing that the House of Representatives should have an odd number of seats, to prevent the type of political stalemate that has gripped Trinidad and Tobago...
PNP has edge in the east
THE RULING People's National Party holds a slim lead over the opposition Jamaica Labour Party in the island's eastern parishes, according to a Gleaner-Don Anderson opinion poll. This represents a reversal of the fortunes...
Smooth start to school year
YESTERDAY, THE first day of the new school year, went smoothly in many areas but there were a few frazzled principals, a leaky roof, and several schools on the short end of furniture. Also, there was an aborted protest.
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