DEAD HEAT IN JAMAICA
Poll records slight PNP lead
WITH JUST under two years to go before the next general election is constitutionally due, the governing People's National Party (PNP) has managed to maintain only a fragile one per cent lead in the race to lead the nation...
Jamaican Prime Minister's legacy under pressure
Patterson's leadership gets negative rating
As Prime Minister P.J. Patterson prepares to walk away from active politics, more persons have rated his leadership of the nation as negative than those who consider his performance positive, says the latest Gleaner-commissioned Don Anderson poll...
Jamaica's grass-roots politics
Voting patterns in the contenders' constituencies
In our first parliamentary general election, December 14, 1944, the leader of the People's National Party, (PNP) Norman Washington Manley, lost his seat. He contested the St. Andrew Eastern constituency, polling 4,858 votes to the Labour ...
COP-BEATING CASE
Constable held responsible
WESTERN BUREAU - A police constable has been implicated in the alleged beating of 48- year-old Corporal Grantley Waite at the barracks of the Mount Salem Police Station ...
A corporal's punishment
Speaking to The Sunday Gleaner yesterday, Corporal Grantley Waite's discomfort was obvious. In a state of paralysis from the neck down and wearing a neck brace, he spoke only to return the reporter's greetings and politely ask that questions be directed..
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