JLP holds slim lead in central parishes
THE OPPOSITION Jamaica Labour Party has a near three percentage points lead over the ruling People's National Party in the island's central parishes, according to the findings of the latest Gleaner-Don Anderson poll. St. Ann, Manchester, Clarendon...

BITU in support of free education
PEARNEL CHARLES, a vice president of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union, and JLP candidate for Clarendon North Central, has called on Jamaicans to "join in a national war on illiteracy and poverty."

Clarke urges UWI to focus on future, not colonialism
OLIVER CLARKE yesterday caused a stir at the University of the West Indies, Mona, when he urged the institution to put its best minds to the improvement and better management of the future rather than focusing on slavery and colonialism.

Fort Clarence Beach for sale or lease
THE GOVERNMENT is selling or leasing the Fort Clarence Beach complex in Hellshire, South St. Catherine. It is used heavily by people from the Corporate Area and sections of St. Catherine. According to an advertisement in The Sunday Gleaner...

PC Banks losing money
DESPITE A rationalisation programme which was concluded in 1996, the financial viability of the island's People's Co-operative Banks continues to be worrying. According to the 2000/2001 report of the Agricultural Credit Board...