Historic gathering of Rastafarians
SCOTT'S PASS Nyahbinghi Centre in Clarendon, Jamaica was the venue for a historic collective reasoning of Rastafari mansions and organisations on August 31. The gathering was convened by the Ethiopian Peace Foundation (EPF) for reasoning on plans for...
Gleaner reporters top Fair Play awards
TWO GLEANER reporters yesterday won awards in the 2001/2002 Jamaica Broilers Fair Play Competition at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel where the 2002 Excellence in Media Lecture was held. Klao Bell walked away with the Jamaica Broilers Fair Play Trophy in...
Golding's gateway to Gov't
BRUCE GOLDING, former chairman, may be back in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) sooner than you think. That is if the JLP wins the upcoming general election. And he would have his dignity and his independence...
Working at 'Ground Zero' - A Jamaican structural engineer reflects on September 11
THE DAY SEPTEMBER 11 was one of the most devastating days of my life. The day started like any other. Little did I know that hatred and destruction had fallen upon the nation. As I was getting ready for work that morning...
Poll-taking over the airwaves
TO WIN an election, a candidate must do two things - develop a message that resonates with voters and deliver that message with panache. Political pundits are predicting a tight race in the upcoming General Election...
'We were wrong about 1986 cess'
LEADER OF the Opposition Edward Seaga said yesterday that his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government in 1986 "made the wrong move" when it imposed a cess on tertiary education.
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