NDM fails to field candidates for NW Clarendon divisions
SPALDINGS, Clarendon: THE NATIONAL Democratic Movement (NDM) did not nominate any candidate for the upcoming Local Government elections in the four divisions of the North West Clarendon constituency.

Mile Gully - a model rural division
WHAT IS THE AIM OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT? ACCORDING TO a 1998 Organisation of American States (OAS) workshop held in Kingston on Local Government, Communitarianism and the Citizen...

Tony Watson, councillor to emulate
CANDIDATES IN the June 19 Local Government elections who are seeking a role model to emulate to successfully develop their division need look no further then Manchester.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS 2003 CANDIDATES
FOLLOWING ARE the names of some of the 495 candidates who will be contesting the 2003 Local Government elections which are scheduled for June 19, and the divisions they will be running in...

Patriarch, Reginald Franklin, dead at 83
THE PATRIARCH of the notable political Franklin family has died.

Back to his roots
Since he's been here for nearly four months, he's not exactly new but Dr. Kent Francis, the Colombian Ambassador to Jamaica, is still a bit low on the profile.

'To honour my father'
LAST SATURDAY, Sangster's Book store, Sovereign Centre, was the site of a very outstanding achievement for 33-year-old sight-impaired, Doreen Reid, with the launch of her book of poems dedicated to her father, Lenny Reid.

Lime Cay concerns give accountant Silver Pen Award
WHEN ROBERT "Bobby" Khouri wrote to The Gleaner in April of this year highlighting his concerns over the proposed privatisation of Lime Cay, he did it out of passion for the little paradise off the Port Royal coast in Kingston.

Man freed of murder conviction
A 23-YEAR-OLD man gained his freedom from the Court of Appeal yesterday as a result of intensive investigation conducted by attorney-at-law Pamela Shoucair-Gayle to prove that her client was not among a group of men who shot dead two men on March 27...