Short on trust - Simpson Miller - 61%, Golding - 47%
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and Opposition Leader Bruce Golding are each being handicapped on the campaign trail by significant levels of distrust among electors - 33 per cent and 43 per cent, respectively, according to the findings of a Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll.

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Food For the Poor summer campers fêted
Jamaica's beaches off limits - Residents take resort developer to court
Development first on JLP agenda if elected
Jamaican shares horror stories from the front line
Access to sections of Negril Beach blocked
Government moves to restore public beaches
Summer project gives youths hope
Action needed on street children - Boys being used as criminal pawns
JLP promises to review Portmore toll - ... Plans to introduce railway as alternative

Political violence claims two in North Central St Andrew
Infant battles for life in hospital; JLP blames ruling party thugsWhile the stand-off about peace talks between the leadership of the People's National Party (PNP) and rival Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) continues, two persons, alleged supporters of the...

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'I am going there to win' - Dennis Messias
'No dynasty lives on forever' - Christopher Munroe
POLITICAL AD WATCH - Will Golding's flip flop his chances?
Fishermen claim dividing wall hampering trade
2000 - Bob Marley's 'Exodus' Best of Century
4-y-o left to mourn father's murder in MoBay
Palmyra workers restless on the job
Residents ask PM to save them from bulldozers

Colgate sells Chloro-do brand to newcomer
Newcomers Pioneer Manufacturing and Distribution Company Limited (PMD) has acquired the Chloro-do Bleach brand from Colgate-Palmolive for an undisclosed sum. According to PMD, which is the distributor for Guylian Chocolates...

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Scotiabank ends utility bill payment service
Burden of 2% excess on condo insurance
Caribic reintroduces Cuban tours
Questions to consider about your investments
Generation Y: Fund managers ignore them at their peril, says KPMG
Aquafina source same as tap water - Bottle label to be amended, says PepsiCo

Jamaica end with 4x100m gold
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A brilliant opening leg in the women's sprint relay final by 200 metres silver medallist Sheri-Ann Brooks yesterday, ensured that the Jamaica National Anthem was played for a third time at the XV Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro.

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Bonds one homer away from Aaron's record
Tour de France triumph in Contador's grasp
Leeds, Knoxwood vie for St Elizabeth title
'KC' Graham to begin coaching at US university in September
La Rude upsets in Drumbeat Trophy
'St Bess' make winning start
Jamaica, Leewards battle for first innings
Powell working to revive football inwestern Ja
Gordon sums up achievements, wishes West Indies cricket well
Goodbye Gordon, welcome Hunte
Tendulkar passes 11,000 Test runs

JLP's emerging foreign policy
Karl Samuda of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has dipped his and the party's toes, albeit tentatively, into an area that the election campaign had not previously ventured: the realm of foreign policy. That is a good...

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PUBLIC AFFAIRS - Emancipating our youth
Politics of the spirit
War in our blood?
Mr Seaga is right, except ...

LETTER OF THE DAY - The number seven is biblical
The Editor, Sir: The Prime Minister announced Nomination Day and election day for August 7 and 27, respectively, leaving seven clear weeks and one day for campaigning between the announcement on July 8 and the...

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When 50% equals 100%
Church has no magical power
Al Miller should change course
Congratulations!
Ridiculous!

Semaj gives explicit advice
Music has long been a form of rebellion for kids who wish to shock and infuriate their parents. Parents are faced with music that is often explicit, highly sexual and now very violent with no prior warning as to whether the CD is child- friendly.

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Goddy Goddy is 'Ghetto Priest' for third album
Designer Carlton Brown Still on cloud nine
NDTC celebrates 45 years
Studio One where sweet lyrics come from
'Augus Mawnin' celebrates a decade

Artful debate
THE TRAIL of artists wound down to the Gallery Barrington last week Thursday. (This time artists, representatives of galleries and marketing personnel met to discuss topical issues on the local art scene).

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Engaging, absorbing, very informative
Dim Sum

Michelle Richards-Phillips Breaking barriers
After all, that is how this Jamaican got her own home, after landing in Florida as a single mom. Holding down two jobs so that she could provide for her child and pay the mortgage for her home back in Jamaica, Richards-Phillips displayed a can-do attitude...

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High-tech dream team - NCU students set for world finals in Microsoft Software Design competition
Managing your money after marriage
Is it easy for single parents to date?
Should you chuck your Teflon cookware?
Emancipation and sex
Unrefined foods and your health
Escape to a Jamaican experience
Yeah for youth

Thwaites vs the Archbishop
Roman Catholic deacon Ronnie Thwaites has already become the first casualty of the 2007 General Election, as his archbishop has given him the cruel and gut-wrenching choice between his preaching and his politics.

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Emancipation, citizenship and nation-building
The long-term benefits of free education
The rise and fall of 'free education'

Dressed to impress
Last Tuesday, three Jamaicans received national honours in a special ceremony of investiture held at King's House.

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Bidding High Commissioner Agrawal adieu
St Mary Parish Council, Microsoft ink deal
Smirnoff X.clusive Hotel - are you confirmed?
Service for 825 years

New UN envoy named
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed a new top envoy for Haiti on Friday in shuffling posts of two veteran officials in the U.N.

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Panday loses battle to regain seat in Parliament
Government to host stem cell research centre

Two news helicopters collide in Phoenix
PHOENIX (AP): It is an aerial dance familiar to residents of many large cities as television news helicopters share the sky, jockeying to position their cameras for live shots of fires, car chases and other breaking news events.

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