Clarendon sweep - Henry predicts JLP landslide - Golding cites 1980 trends
MIKE HENRY has predicted that the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will win five of the six seats in Clarendon in the next general election. Henry, Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Clarendon, made the remark at a South West Clarendon fund-raising dinner...
When a stranger entered
In many rural communities everybody knows everybody. And minding your business usually means minding everyone else's. On Friday night, in the village square bar, the alligator bread and sprat will be broken, bit by bit, until everybody receives a piece. On the day before market day...
JTB's hot campaign to ease winter chills
LOCAL TOURISM interests, eager to woo American tourists back to Jamaica after an indifferent winter season, have launched a wide-scale media campaign in the United States (U.S.). Director of Tourism Basil Smith said recently that television ads have already been running in the U.S....
Bailey gets new coach
Philadelphia, USA: Olympic sprint relay gold medallist Aleen Bailey has changed her coach in a bold move to get ready in time for the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan this summer. Bailey, who returned to Jamaica in 2004 to join Glen Mills' Racers Track Club...
EDITORIALS - No room for Jezebels
Karl Samuda, the general secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), assumed an appropriately high moral ground in the 'Jezebel' controversy involving the party's candidate for the South East St. Andrew constituency, Mrs. Joan Gordon-Webley.
LETTER OF THE DAY - Introspection urged on Mona campus
The Editor, Sir: The Guild of Students of the UWI, Mona, campus should be commended for holding a vigil for the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre. I strongly believe that the display of solidarity within the student community is essential.
Mellowand intense vibes at Mas Camp
The mood swung between a mellow groove and a more intense euphoria at Saturday night's 'Mello Vibes', held at Mas Camp, Oxford Road, New Kingston, for the full house of party people.It was billed as 'Girls Town' and, sure enough, the ladies turned out, many of them on heels...
Peter Ferguson's ChangeMakers 101
Photographer Peter Ferguson has joined a rapidly expanding list of` Jamaicans who are recording their work for posterity. Come May 5, he will launch ChangeMakers - a book of 101 black and white photographs of outstanding Jamaican men who have effected change ...
Backsliders BEWARE!
CAIRO (Reuters):An Egyptian court has ruled that the state has no obligation to recognise the right of Christians who convert to Islam to change their minds and revert to Christianity, a human rights group said yesterday.
