The drama of nomination
Politics is theatre, and nomination day is a major scene in its drama. This is the day when the candidates arrive at the nomination centres in triumph with as many of their supporters as possible, everyone wearing party colours, singing party songs and carrying banners and flags....
Political symbols and illiterates
Before the first general election in 1944, when for the first time every Jamaican over the age of 21 could vote, it was recognised that over 50 per cent of these first-time voters were illiterate. These illiterates would, therefore, have a problem identifying...
Balance, skill at the bar!
Bottles flew, 'spirits' kissed the faces of patrons and even a few glasses came to an untimely crash at the World Bartender Championship competition on Wednesday night at T.G.I. Friday's in St. Andrew. Only one of the five contestants could become Jamaica's Best All- Round Bartender.
Witness no-show slows trial of slain family
WESTERN BUREAU: The absence of the main eyewitness yesterday, reportedly due to illness, halted the continuation of the preliminary enquiry against the four men implicated in the November 2006 massacre of a family in Retirement, St. James....
Jamaican farm workers in Canadian custody
Two Jamaican workers who went on the Government's farm-work programme in Canada are now in police custody for allegedly wounding a Canadian. The Gleaner has learned that the two were arrested after they were involved in a with a driver, on one of the farms...
15-year sentence quashed on appeal
A man who spent three years awaiting the outcome of his appeal against his convictions and 15-year prison sentence for gun offences was freed Wednesday. Kevin Bascoe, chef, of Lot 427 Braeton Newtown, St.Catherine, was sentenced in January 2004 to 10 years' imprisonment...
CHANGEMAKERS - The changing face of Jamaica's 'ownership class'
Hidden behind $4 billion worth of share equity, the Capital and Credit Merchant Bank holds a real story of change. Black Jamaicans have only just begun to be a part of the ownership class in their own country and one of the men who heralded that change...
Jamaica Debates Commission, Canadian agency sign deal
Denis Kingsley, Canadian High Commissioner to Jamaica, and Philmore Ogle, chairman of the Jamaica Debates Commission, on Wednesday signed a contribution agreement by which Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will provide the Jamaica Debates Commission...
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