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Jamaica Gleaner In Focus
published: Sunday | February 20, 2005

GOLDEN HOUR
THE HOUR has come. The heir-apparent must inherit the hotly-contested throne. It has been a tortuous, treacherous and rocky road, but the inheritor has vanquished the Grand Old Man and has turned the Rockstone Labourite into a pebble.

A seat for Golding, or else ...
WHEN THE Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) called for bipartisan talks with the government consequent on the ruling of the Privy Council, I feared that it might use the talks to bargain for a by-election to get Bruce Golding a seat in Parliament.


I like Omar, but the people don't
A YEAR AGO, P.J. Patterson was sitting pretty. Crime was falling ­ 1139 murders in 2001, 1045 in 2002, 975 in 2003. The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was in its usual disarray with the ageing Edward Seaga showing no signs of going anywhere.





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