'JLP election-ready' - Reformers bat for Seaga
DECLARING THAT the party today is as organised as at any time in its 60-year-old history, a number of the new reformers of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) said they would be ready to contest an election at any time...

PM, unions discuss terrorism bill
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson has initiated a meeting with the private sector and unions to discuss the anti-terrorism bill. The meeting will be held today at 4:30 p.m. in the Banquet Hall, at Jamaica House, Hope Road, St. Andrew.

Gang feud prompts peace talks
FOLLOWING YESTERDAY'S gun slaying of 41-year-old Delroy Gray, alias 'Fishie', political representatives have proposed to broker talks between rival factions in an attempt to end gun clashes between rival gangs of Nannyville Gardens, St. Andrew.

AIDS births plunge
JAMAICA HAS seen a 45 per cent drop in the number of children infected with HIV/AIDS between January and June this year, compared to the same period in 2002, new statistics from the National HIV Control programme show.

Double murder rocks Cambridge
WESTERN BUREAU: A DOUBLE murder in Cambridge, St. James, is baffling the police and has got reactions of shock from the community at what seems to be the senseless killing of a young couple at their home.

Charlie Smith High gets peace garden
AN OASIS of peace was on Monday opened in the desert of conflicts which often affects students of the Charlie Smith High School in Arnett Gardens, south St. Andrew. Months of planning had finally come to fruition with the opening of a peace garden...