PNP retreats to re-tool
A TWO-DAY leadership retreat of the People's National Party (PNP) in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, this weekend, should see the ratification of constitutional amendments aimed at strengthening the work of the party at the group and constituency levels.

New JLP interest - Party focuses on general secretary race
NOW THAT Audley Shaw, Opposition Spokesman on Finance and deputy leader of the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Area Council Three, has abandoned his quest to challenge Bruce Golding for the position of chairman of the party next Sunday...

Bar files appeal against search ruling
THE JAMAICAN Bar Association (JBA) has filed an appeal against a Full Court ruling last month that the searches of two lawyers' offices conducted by the police earlier this year, did not constitute a breach of attorney-client privilege.

10-year-old takes St Mary Spelling Bee parish title
PATRICE CHRISTIE, a 10-year-old crowd favourite of Highgate Primary and Junior High, yesterday obliged by winning the St. Mary parish title in The Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee competition.

CARICOM sourcing finances for region
A CARIBBEAN Community (CARICOM) technical group has recommended seven means by which automatic financing of programmes and institutions by member states within the bloc can be arranged.