Will the MPs swing the delegate votes?
ON MARCH 30, 2006, P.J. Patterson will celebrate the 14th anniversary of his tenure as Prime Minister of Jamaica. That could very well be the date he has chosen for the installation of his successor.

Six-point Portia jump
IN A matter of months, Portia Simpson Miller, the charismatic Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, has registered a more than six per cent increase in public support for the job of People's National Party (PNP) president...

Unwilling witnesses bug cases against cops
THE UNWILLINGNESS of witnesses to give written statements has prevented the police from solving more cases involving its own members, says head of the Bureau of Special Investigation (BSI), acting Assistant Commissioner Granville Gause.

Still 'imprisoned' - Ivan Barrows battling verbal abuse, mental, physical illnesses
THE PERSECUTION of 80-year-old Ivan 'Alfred' Barrows continues, even today, four years after he was released from prison. People still shout wildly and voice offensive expletives and homosexual jibes when they pass the paw-paw-coloured house in Aenon Town

Losing dignity daily
THE COLD, rotten floor-boards are his bed each night, and his pillow, a rolled up suit of dirty clothes. In his tiny room, which is bare of furniture, there is only a truck engine that has been converted into a coal stove, an axe, two lumps of wood...

A lifetime behind bars
CLEMENT BECKFORD is a broken man. He is a man without a country; he has no identity. After 54 years of living, he has nothing to prove that the name by which he calls himself is in fact his.

The Michael Gayle debacle - Jenny Cameron's story: Living with the pain
UP UNTIL August 21 1999, Jenny Cameron fit the profile of many women in inner-city Kingston ­ a 'struggler' doing 'day's work' to provide for her family. But that day, Michael Gayle, the second of her six children, was beaten by members....