Lead Stories

Hours before the prime minister's address to the nation last night, Gleaner Writer Barrington Flemming took to the streets of Montego Bay, St James, to gauge the public's view as to what move Mr Golding should make next in the Manatt affair.

As the latest government scandal unfolds, this time including Prime Minister Bruce Golding, some Jamaicans are calling for a renewal of the political process. Confidence in the ruling Jamaica Labour Party appears to have weakened, and the Opposition...

Prior to last Tuesday Delroy Chuck, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, had very little reason to rule on a point of order from Section 16 of the standing orders.

THE UPSURGE of violence in Spanish Town, St Catherine, has caused church groups to call for political and police intervention to quell the bloodletting.Chairman of the Spanish Town Ministers' Fraternal, Bishop Roy Johnson...

General secretary of the National Democratic Movement, Michael Williams, yesterday called on three of Jamaica's most influential organisations to stop giving donations to the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)....

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Chairman Dr Ken Baugh and General Secretary Karl Samuda are veteran politicians used to facing the media, but at the Sandals Grande hotel in Ocho Rios, St Ann, yesterday, both appeared fazed as journalists peppered them...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding will tonight face the nation in a televised address less than 24 hours after the Central Executive - the nerve centre of his governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) - snubbed calls for him to quit because of an about-face...

President of the East Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Pastor Adrian Cotterell, yesterday made a desperate plea to Jamaicans to redouble efforts to raise children responsibly, with juveniles increasingly becoming victim to sexual predators...

Political observers, business groups and at least one prominent human-rights activist have reacted with outrage to the decision of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to reject calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Bruce Golding....

Peddling information on road repair, the Canjet hostage crisis, the Haitian earthquake response, government expenditure, public broadcasting, protective vests for the police, sugar, Air Jamaica, casino, and nearly every other matter, has become the trademark of the government's information point man, Daryl Vaz.

LET US be quite realistic about the matter: If we are expecting leadership of high moral integrity, we are going to have to do without government in Jamaica for the foreseeable future.

FOUR MISCHIEVOUS cubs sat in the bleachers to the back of St George's College Emmet Park chowing down on hot dogs and popcorn. They were busy laughing and chatting, while taking in the acti-vities on the track at the annual cubs and scouts rally yesterday in Kingston.