J'can cattle - critical to national well-being
THE RECENTLY con-cluded Minard Livestock Show and Beef Festival is the stellar event for showcasing Jamaica's cattle. Each year, thousands of persons, especially school children, visit the show to see and learn about our local cattle breeds.

On your marks - Samuda tells Jamaica Labour Party conference
BRUCE GOLDING, West Kingston Member of Parliament (MP), was yesterday returned unopposed as Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Leader. The election was held on the first day of the JLP's annual conference at the National Arena in Kingston.

No crime on Jamaica Gleaner, Sunday Gleaner front pages
Stories relating to crime and violence will not be published on the front page of The Gleaner and The Sunday Gleaner for the month of December.

Flight risk - Wards leave Jamaica's children home at will
WHILE RUNNING away or leaving home, if even for a weekend jaunt, may seem thrilling to naïve youngsters, it has become a risky practice for some Jamaican children in residential care.

We'll take CXC to court! - Minott
THE CARIBBEAN Examinations Council (CXC) could find itself being brought before the courts over the now controversial associate degree issue.

The house that Florette bought
What do you do when you find out that the house and land you paid millions to secure is smack in an environment danger zone? When you can barely count your losses and run because you cannot afford to move?

The replacement of oil (Part II)
WHILE THE industrial world remains sufficiently comfortable with the use of fossil-based fuels, the drive to use alternative resources to generate energy from renewable domestic energy sources is not being treated as a mission to be accomplished...

Popularity, power and polls
IN LESS than 100 days, some 4,000 delegates of the People's National Party (PNP) will meet to elect a new president who, after endorsement by the party's Parliamentary group, will become the seventh Prime Minister of independent Jamaica.

Will PM Patterson announce his exit today?
THE PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) is to hold its last National Executive Council (NEC) meeting for this year, today. The meeting is to be held at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI).