Cabinet to weigh campaign finance
HEIGHTENED CONTROVERSY over the source of funding of the campaign of at least one of the deputy leaders of the Jamaica Labour Party in its recent internal elections, has renewed calls for tighter monitoring of financing for political parties.

Fallout and new alliances
COME NEXT Sunday, November 23, all eyes will be on the contest for the posts of chairman and of general secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). Each election will be decided by 166 voters ­ the officers of the party, MPs, Senators...

OLIVIA 'BABSY' GRANGE - I still have concerns
MUCH HAS happened in the week since Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, the only female deputy leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), lost her position to first-time MP James Robertson. And last Friday, she issued a statement in which she said she would...

Chang to bring changes to west
WESTERN BUREAU: JUST ONE week after his successful challenge for the post of deputy leader in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Dr. Horace Chang has signalled his intention to promote a programme of change to strengthen the party's position in the...

JLP at its disgraceful best
THE JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) knows how to self-destruct and has set itself on that familiar path once again. Yet another round of bitter and disgraceful bloodletting is on and promises to get even more so by this weekend when another important...

Increasing the purses of politicians
APRIL 26, 1945 marked what may have been the first occasion that the contentious question of compensation for parliamentarians was raised under Universal Adult Suffrage.