Collision-course campaign

ON MAY 1 the ruling People's National Party announced at a news briefing that it was "embarking on a programme of outreach and of repositioning the party" - renewal and re-connection if you may - but really, its re-election campaign. - Lloyd Williams

A long time in politics

CLICHÉS AND oft-repeated sayings are more often than not either false or only half true. But a week really is a long time in politics and all participants in the current Jamaican drama know that. The very volatility of... - Daniel Thwaites

Rousseau states case on WICB investments

The following is the text of the statement issued yesterday by attorney-at-law Patrick Rousseau, former president of the West Indies Cricket Board: I HAVE noticed from reports in the press that Mr. Richard Jodhan is a member of... - Pat Rousseau

Father is as father does

TWO PROMINENT women, both achievers in the fields of politics and social development, have at different times spoken to me of the positive and even inspiring influence of their fathers in their personal development. - Geof Brown

When tomato reigned on the plains

TREASURE BEACH: There's always something special about looking back at defining periods in one's lifetime. It is even more special if that particular period is one in which you actually grew up. So it was during the heydays of the... - Desmond Henry

THROUGH THE 20TH CENTURY WITH THE GLEANER - The Lord Moyne Commission (Part 7)

AS WAS almost inevitable for the period, the late Norman Washington Manley made his appearance before the commission. And the fireworks which attended this appearance was reported enthusiastically in The Gleaner of... - C. Roy Reynolds

Why I refuse to vote

I MEL COOKE, being of sound mind and of my own free will, refuse to be enumerated, much less to vote. I have never held a National Identification Card and the only ink that has ever been on my fingers is from a faulty ball-point pen. - Melville Cooke