Crime, the economy and youth: Facing our priorities
MERCIFULLY, THE election of the president of the (People's National Party (PNP) is over. However disappointed, it is the duty of all parties to fully accept and respect these results and not play dangerous destabilising games either publicly.

Golding offers congratulations
OPPOSITION LEADER Bruce Golding last night offered congratulations to president-designate of the People's National Party (PNP), Portia Simpson Miller, who emerged victorious after a closely contested presidential race.

'Things will be better' - Peter Phillips supporters give full backing to candidate
WHILE NOT oozing the same amount of energy as the Portia Simpson Miller camp, the delegates and supporters of Dr. Peter Phillips' 'Solid as a Rock' campaign who gathered at the Chinese Benevolent Association headquarters, were confident...

Waiting for the last laugh
THE HOURS leading up to the announcement of the new People's National Party (PNP) president yesterday were, for many delegates, some of the longest hours they had ever experienced.

Portia Simpson Miller - Heart, soul and guts
WHO WOULD have thought that when this barely budding working class woman started a political career in the early 1970s, she would eventually become Jamaica's most popular politician and the first woman in the country's history to contend for...

A long day at Jamaica College
DURING THE fairly uneventful poll at the Jamaica College campus, Old Hope Road, yesterday, thousands of mostly yellow and orange-clad supporters of the four PNP presidential hopefuls speculated for hours on who would come out the winner.

Expectations from new PM
THE TRADE union movement is already staking its claim from the incoming Prime Minister. The movement wants the leader to recognise the importance of labour and human resource development as a critical component of the development process.

More is not a strategy
THE ELECTION of the new president of the People's National Party (PNP) is over. The newly elected President will eventually be called by the Governor-General to accept appointment as Prime Minister as soon as the present Prime Minister demits office...

Security of Jamaican workforce raises concern
WITH POLICE statistics showing that nearly three quarters of those murdered last year were employed people, the Jamaica Employers Federation and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions are bemoaning the impact this will have on productivity...