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Published:Sunday | May 16, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Susan Schmidt, the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips lawyer whose signature appears on the Foreign Agency Registration document (FARA), is no novice. She is a seasoned attorney whose practice focuses on international trade, business, advocacy and government relations.

Published:Sunday | May 16, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Martin HenryContributorLET 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.The Constitution is far more realistic than...

Published:Sunday | May 16, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Attorney-at-law Harold Brady's association with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is well known. In fact, it is debatable whether Brady is a lawyer first and a 'Labourite' after, or a 'Labourite' first, and then a lawyer.

Published:Saturday | May 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

AFTER TWO days of silence, the affiliates of the the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) have come to the defence of its leader, Bruce Golding, who has been coming under intense pressure to resign as prime minister.

Published:Saturday | May 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

As the calls for the resignation of the prime minister heighten, official word from the Government is that Bruce Golding is engaged in a series of consultations before deciding his future. Information Minister Daryl Vaz feverishly sought to quash swirling rumours that Golding had tendered his resignation to a meeting of officers of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday.

Published:Saturday | May 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday bailed out of a scheduled meeting with church leaders. A number of religious leaders were scheduled to meet with Golding to continue dialogue on issues affecting the country.

Published:Saturday | May 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

First Global Bank yesterday obtained an injunction in the Supreme Court restraining Rohan Rose, who was dismissed from the bank in 2009, from disclosing confidential information about the bank and its clients.

Published:Saturday | May 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Monsignor Michael Lewis used the funeral for veteran pilot Captain Russell Capleton yesterday to wade into the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips controversy that has embroiled the Bruce Golding administration.

Published:Saturday | May 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Executive Director of Crime Stop, Prudence Gentles, is reporting that the programme has made some significant breakthroughs in solving crime since the start of this year.

Published:Saturday | May 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Under the Constitution, the Office of Prime Minister shall become vacant if ...

Published:Saturday | May 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Human rights groups have lashed out at Prime Minister Bruce Golding, saying he has wronged Jamaicans. The local human rights agitators unleashed their venom on Golding, joining the thunderous demands for Prime Minister Bruce Golding to resign.

Published:Friday | May 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Nearly 40 cases of processed ackee not fit for consumption mysteriously vanished from a factory in St Elizabeth on Monday, prompting the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) to put the public on alert.However, the BSJ admitted yesterday that the cases were...

Published:Friday | May 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The Belize police have arrested two of their own in connection with the shooting death of a Jamaican man there in February.Police Corporal Jorge Lemus has been charged with manslaughter, while Constable Lazaro Catch is facing a charge of abetment to...

Published:Friday | May 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WESTERN BUREAU: Basic-school teacher Jacqueline Frank of Haughton in Lacovia, St Elizabeth, welcomed her fourth child, Ramon, into the world on August 26, 1998 at the Black River...

Published:Friday | May 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

One of four men convicted of the abduction, rape and shooting death of two women in 2005 has been given the death penalty.Desmond Kennedy and Alton Heath, both in their 20s, along with Sheldon Duncan, 32, all of Greenwich...

Published:Friday | May 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The government is continuing to downplay the significance of Wednesday's late-night meeting at Prime Minister Bruce Golding's official residence, Vale Royal....

Published:Friday | May 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The Reverend John-Mark Bartlett is the charismatic pastor of Pentecostal Tabernacle in Kingston who walked away from his association with the Rastafarian movement 27 years ago.His new-birth experience came in 1983 when he was baptised...

Published:Friday | May 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The nation's youth yesterday joined scores of Jamaicans frowning at embattled Prime Minister Bruce Golding and his beleaguered administration in the aftermath...

Published:Friday | May 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The government's handling of the extradition request for West Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke and the resulting imbroglio surrounding the United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips have stalled the social-partnership talks...

Published:Friday | May 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Using the World Wide Web as their forum, Jamaicans here and in the diaspora have joined the debate surrounding Prime Minister Bruce Golding's statement in Parliament on Tuesday.Golding revealed that he sanctioned a Jamaica...

Published:Friday | May 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

IN 2006, then Opposition Leader Bruce Golding demolished the argument that ministerial responsibility could be separated from party duties. Four years later, Golding, now prime minister, drew on parliamentary rules to shut down questions...

Published:Friday | May 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

HAVING HAD its leader hauled over the coals for sanctioning the engagement of a United States law firm to lobby the US government on an extradition matter, the Jamaica Labour Party ...

Published:Thursday | May 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM

PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding was in hostile territory for just over two hours on Tuesday as the parliamentary opposition went in search of more clues in the Manatt Phelps & Phillips mystery. Golding admitted he had sanctioned the move to engage...

Published:Thursday | May 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE BRUCE Golding administration yesterday retreated behind the bright green cover of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as it came under increasing...

Published:Thursday | May 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Honourable thing. 1. Some are now saying the reasonfor declining to accept the title is self-evident!

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