PNP stays ahead ...although both parties gain
The governing People's National Party (PNP) continues to enjoy more popular support than its main rival, the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), a Gleaner-commissioned poll has found. According to the findings of the September poll, conducted by Don...

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Cabinet choices - hard task for new PM
PM tours rural St Catherine
Police to target motorcades
Residents marooned in east Hanover

Blair wants campaign finance laws
Bishop Herro Blair, the Political Ombudsman, says the practice of buying votes was threatening the country's democracy and that he would be strongly advocating for the enactment of a campaign finance law after the general election. In an interview with...

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JLP turns up political heat in Kingston
Clarendon political leaders call for peace
PNP supporters 'log on' in St. Andrew N Central

Editors' Forum: Bureaucracy, major handicap to business
Last Wednesday, several of the country's prominent business leaders attended The Gleaner's Editors' Forum at the company's downtown Kingston headquarters on North Street, to discuss ways of stimulating growth in the economy after the...

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Election fever has not affected investment - Melhado
Chang, Allgrove appointed to Kingston Wharves' Board
Red Stripe's $billion investment

Windies enjoy run feast
OPENING BATSMAN Wavell Hinds slammed an imperious hundred and led a splendid West Indies batting performance against the Indian Board President's XI on the second day of their three-day game at the Chinnaswamy Stadium yesterday. Hinds stroked 147, and...

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Dinthill maintain perfect record
Bridgeport trounce Denham Town
Arnett, Waterhouse clash at Emmet Park
Jamaica under-17s continue Cup hunt

Editorial: Beyond the Braeton tragedy
The Braeton Inquest has finally reached the stage of a 6-4 jury verdict that no one was criminally responsible for the deaths of seven young men, fatally shot by a police party in March last year. As was perhaps inevitable, the initial reaction to the...

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Election observers - helpful or useless?
Balance the issues dear Peter
It never rains but it pours
Free education not the issue

A time for discussing contending ideas
THE EDITOR, SIR: The ideas that Mr. Bruce Golding espouses on constitutional reforms might well have had more supporters left in the Labour Party than those who went with him to form the National Democratic Movement (NDM), when the matter came up for...

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Jamaica and initiatives of change
The power of the rural vote
A very short-sighted concern

No fun for the kids
emember your childhood days, those days when you could go to Coney Park, Coconut Park Fun Land, school fairs or just about anywhere in Kingston and there were games just for you? Those were fun days and it was 'cool' to be a kid, but nowadays there are..

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Booing at gospel concerts
A Heartbroken Been ie Man
Jazz and World Music Concert

Child abuse in the home - Who will guard the guard?
ON SEPTEMBER 25, 1998, seven-year-old Randal Dooley died of brain injuries that were likely caused by being shaken repeatedly. Randal's 42-pound body was covered with scars and bruises. He had 14 broken ribs, a lacerated liver, four separate brain...

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What is child abuse?
Spare the rod...
Why do women love married men? Can the mistress and the wife be friends?
Sunday Gleaner reporter wins IPPF award ...For 'Breaking the Silence' series
Crossway to hell

Back to the international limelight - Dancehall and the United States
In the early 1990s dancehall and reggae were new-found love for major United States (US) record companies. The courtship began when Shabba Ranks took dancehall music to the US audience. The result was an 'Epic' deal for the man who described...

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Airing clean and dirty laundry
Despite boycotts...Ja going to Miss World contest

The JLP's 'Golding' opportunity
The return of Bruce Golding to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), has provided ample opportunity for the display of sloppy analysis, philosophical naiveté, distorted thinking, emotional invective and plain score-settling. The University...

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Golding factor strengthens democracy