'Code' under stress
VIOLENT FLARE-UPS between Jamaica Labour Party and People's National Party supporters and a reported breakdown in communications are affecting the programme for the parish-by-parish signing by election candidates...

Police raid JLP candidate's house - 'Labourer's splif only contraband found'
THE JLP says it is to ask Police Commissioner Francis Forbes why the Reneto Adams-led Crime Management Unit on Wednesday night searched the home of Norman Horne, its candidate for Manchester Central in the upcoming general election.

Majority not in favour of JLP
THE MAJORITY of Jamaicans remain unconvinced that the opposition Jamaica Labour Party has done enough to warrant being elected to office in the upcoming general election, according to the latest Gleaner-Don Anderson public...

Patterson, Seaga against fixed election date
BOTH PRIME Minister P.J. Patterson and Edward Seaga, the JLP leader, have brushed aside suggestions for a fixed election date. On a rare point of agreement, both leaders argue that a fixed election date would unwisely rob the Jamaican people...

Merchants stand firm on shutdown
ERROL GREENE, the KSAC's Town Clerk, has expressed surprise at the decision of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce for its members to shut down their businesses in Downtown Kingston next week Tuesday to protest deteriorating conditions there. Mr. Greene...