Guess who's coming to dinner ... Portia or Bruce?
If you had the opportunity to share a bucket of chicken and some cornmeal pudding with either Portia Simpson Miller or her rival Bruce Golding, whom would you choose?Well 50 per cent of people who participated in a recent Gleaner-commissioned poll said...
St. Elizabeth South East - New MP must bring water!
The constituency of St. Elizabeth South East is traditionally known for its strong voter population, people who are predominantly farmers. The history of the constituency suggests very limited economic activity goes on there outside of farming until, of course, in recent times.
Prophet Phinn and the science of sevens
IT WAS either coincidence or divine guidance that led Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller down sevens road on Sunday night. However, prophet Dr. Phillip Phinn says he has nothing to do with the interference of the sevens in Jamaica's 15th parliamentary elections.
1970: Life of Jamaica is born
In 1963, 29-year-old R.'Danny' Williams proposed to the North American Life Assurance Company of Canada (NALCO) that he and his five young associates, Adrian Foreman, Manley McAdam, Donald Davidson, Herbert Hall and Peter Rousseau, were capable...
Active hurricane season could affect election
With the 2007 hurricane season predicted to be an active one, there is chance that the August 27 general election could be affected by a storm. As a result, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has advised that a back-up date...
Jury selected as double-murder trial starts
A jury was selected Monday to try the case of the three persons charged with the murder of former president of the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association (JGRA), Lloyd G. Brown, and his 49-year-old fiancee, Sandra Campbell.
Addressing the 'feminine side' of HIV/AIDS
With the theme of the World Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) International Women's summit being 'Women's Leadership on HIV and AIDS', the 'feminisation' of the disease was at the forefront of the opening ceremony of the summit at the Kenyatta International Conference...
Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) sees limited progress for Jamaica
BLACK RIVER, St. Elizabeth: Executive director of Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) Dr. Carolyn Gomes says Jamaica's progress socially and economically over the last thirty years has been fitful at best and marred by massive inequity in social, political and economic life.
Darryl Johnson joins battle to help change world
It was just by chance that young Darryl Johnson picked up a flyer being sent around his old school, Hillel Academy High School, in Jamaica, late April last year.It read 'United World College Scholarship'. According to Darryl, "Little did I know that I would be one of the 2006...
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