Oil deal casualty - Pressure for Gov't minister to resign The
leadership of the ruling People's National Party (PNP), including retired Prime
Minister P.J. Patterson huddled on the weekend to strategise its way out of a
potentially damaging position, brought on by the disclosure that the party received...
Gay colony in prisons In
a bid to reduce physical abuse and murders in the nation's penal institutions,
the Department of Correctional Services has segregated homosexual inmates from
the heterosexual population.
Reggae Boyz in battle for pride THE
ACHING Reggae Boyz will today try to restore lost pride when they take on Canada
in an international friendly at the National Stadium starting at 5:00 p.m. Jamaica,
coming off their embarrassing first-round exit in the Digicel Caribbean...
Public scrutiny for private funding It
is to be hoped that the island's political parties will accept the offer of the
Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) to act as an honest broker in drafting a code
of conduct governing political contributions ahead of proposed legislation...
Letter of the day - ' Pothole fixed by Trafigura Beheer'
The Editor, Sir: The PNP has
received a donation from Trafigura Beheer of some $30 million to assist the governing
party in underwriting the expenses of the upcoming election.
Roots to Reckoning - Charlie Phillips engages the past Photographer
Charlie 'Smokey' Phillips, at 61 years old, represents everything about the Caribbean
community in the London district of Notting Hill, made distinct by immigrants
who poured into England in the 'Windrush' wave of immigration...
Louis Burke Television veteran Quiet
and taciturn as he may appear to those who don't know him well, Louis Burke, technical
director at Television Jamaica (TVJ), is a man who - with charisma and more to
spare - once attracted the limelight in his own right.
The Golding gift Bruce
Golding succeeded in diverting attention from the censure motion against his point
man Karl Samuda and kept the General Secretary off the front pages, but at a very
high cost.
Grub, grog and loot at Buccaneer Bash
Photographer Howard Moo-Young (left) is embraced by a saucy wench, Marie Colbin,
at Buccaneer Bash 2006, on the Caribbean Queen, hosted on Saturday, September
30, by the Kingston and St. Andrew branch of the Jamaica Red Cross. Moo-Young's
works were...
