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Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
published: Wednesday | June 11, 2008

People's National Party (PNP) on top - An election today could result in a change of Government in Jamaica
THE PEOPLE'S NATIONAL Party (PNP) has emerged the party more likely to form the Government if a general election were called now. But, with three in every 10 Jamaicans indicating little interest in the electoral process at this time, there is no reason why the Jamaica Labour Party...

What's right with Jamaica

Jamaicans are an extraordinarily creative and talented people. We have produced more world-class individuals than any country this size has a right to. We have excelled in the arts and are a cultural superpower having given birth not only to reggae...

Getting back into the groove

It seems she was a world away, even though it was only a few weeks.Gleaner Children's Own Spelling Bee champion Sade Dunbar has been back home nearly two weeks now, after her adventure at the Scripps National Spelling Bee where where she finished joint 13th from a field of more...

Poll doesn't mean Golding's doing a good job - analysts

The latest Gleaner-Commissioned Bill Johnson poll findings have confirmed what two of the island's leading political analysts already knew: Portia Simpson Miller is still well loved, but Bruce Golding is the man most people want to lead the ship of state...

DIASPORA FOCUS - Jamaicans resist diaspora influence in House

A PROPOSAL to strengthen the role of the diaspora in parliamentary and national affairs has been met with resistance from a number of Jamaicans. Last week, the House of Representatives established a committee to hear and debate potential constitutional amendments...

NEPA scolded in Parliament

THE NATIONAL Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) received a strong reprimand at yesterday's sitting of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in Gordon House.Chief executive officer of NEPA, Dr Leary Myers, was in the hot seat fielding...

Phillips calls out Jamaicans against crime

DR PETER Phillips, the opposition spokesman on national security, says there is a need for a national mobilisation of all decent law-abiding Jamaicans to fight crime."The task is to rescue Jamaica from the clutches of criminality for our sake and the sake of future generations," Phillips...

Samuda scraps metal trade again

MONTHS after first suspending scrap-metal exports due to theft, criminals have forced Minister of Industry, Commerce and Investment Karl Samuda to again put a hold on the sector.Samuda told the House of Representatives yesterday that shipments of scrap metal would not resume until he was satisfied...

'Reading should be compulsory and tested'

A leading publisher has suggested that the Government make the reading of books in grades four to six compulsory and then test students on them at the end of each grade. Ian Randle, president of Ian Randle Publishing Limited, said this would improve...

Five master keys to success (Part 4)

As I end this series on the master keys to success, I wish to discuss persistence, perseverance, the refusal to give up even in the face of the most daunting odds. Persistence and perseverance are so important that if you do not understand and practise this principle





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