NEWSMAKER - Prudence Kidd-Deans 'shoots' from the hip
SENATOR PRUDENCE Kidd-Deans chuckled as she read a headline, 'Pruddie a.k.a. Billy The Kid comes out gunning' in last Friday's Financial Gleaner. The column by Raymond Forrest commented on her recent call for the removal of red tape to allow...

Member of Parliament ordered to pay 21 months outstanding rent
THE COURTS have ordered Dr. Neil McGill, People's National Party (PNP) Member of Parliament for Western St. Mary, to pay over roughly $150,000 owed for 21 months rent and vacate the property in the parish that houses his constituency...

Junior Cabinet named - Two new faces included among 12 State Ministers
PRIME MINISTER Portia Simpson Miller has made room for only two new names to join the list of junior ministers of Government. However, in a departure from her appointment of senior ministers last week, Mrs. Simpson Miller made several adjustments...

ICON: MORTIMO PLANNO - Keeper of Selassie's chapel
THERE WAS a time in Jamaica when the Rastaman was a pariah. Discrimination against the 'Blackheart Man' or 'beard man' as they were called, so moved author Roger Mais that he made a Rastaman the hero of his book...

Jamaican politicians accused of tarnishing country's image
BIRMINGHAM, England: SIR BILL Morris, Jamaican-born former general secretary of Britain's Transport and General Workers Union, has accused Jamaican politicians of damaging the country's international image through the unending labelling of each other...

Special voters' reverification set for May
THE ELECTORAL Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is advising voters who did not meet the March 31 deadline for reverification that a special session will be held next month to get them on the May voters' list.