Golding's return and the JLP's chances
REACTIONS TO Bruce Golding's re-entry into the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) have been cautious, but already the move is being read as the elixir that will reinvigorate the Opposition.

Bruce Golding - riding the tide
"There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads unto fortune. Omitted, all the voyages of their lives are bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat...

Samuda: Comfortably ahead
THE JLP is comfortably ahead in the up-coming contest for the St. Andrew North Central seat. The candidates are Karl Samuda for the JLP, Barbara Clarke for the PNP, and Garnett White for the United People's Party.

PNP's CRIME PLAN: Crime fighting initiatives
DURING THE next term of a PNP Government we will invest in new security technology, equipment and infrastructure including...

Prime Minister outlines plans for Clarendon
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson says that unlike the Jamaica Labour Party's manifesto, the People's National Party's manifesto was not based on empty and unrealistic promises.

ST. ANDREW NORTH EASTERN - Chuck: A winner Anthony Myers
IN ST. Andrew North Eastern the best hope for the PNP is a good second. Delroy Chuck, the incumbent MP is the JLP's candidate and Leonard Green is running for the PNP.

Electioneering: counter-productive
THE 16TH of October has been named as the date for the first General Election in the new millennium, ending the guessing game about naming the date. There are those who suggest that to avoid the guessing game, Jamaica should have a fixed date.