Early December JLP conference?
THE JAMAICA Labour Party's (JLP) Central Executive is to meet today to decide, among other things, whether to convene an annual conference early next month. The move to convene today's meeting of the Central Executive, the JLP's highest decision-making...

PNP courting Bethel Town
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland PEOPLE'S NATIONAL Party (PNP) leader, Prime Minister, P.J. Patterson, and a top-ranking party team toured the Bethel Town division in Westmoreland yesterday to drum up support for the PNP candidate in next Thursday's...

Church backs state! Leave the laws alone - ministers say
JAMAICAN CHURCHES say Government must not bow to international pressure and change the buggery law to accommodate the practice of men having sex with men. Last week, the United States-based Human Rights Watch in its study 'Hated to Death:

Getting ready for work
THIRTY YEARS ago, in his maiden budget speech as Leader of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Edward Seaga proposed the establishment of a national programme that would prepare youths, who were not equipped for tertiary education...

Call for one regional airline
SOME CARIBBEAN leaders have argued that LIAT, Air Jamaica and Trinidad-based BWIA should merge to form a single regional carrier. Air Jamaica has lost more than $34 billion (US$560 million) since its privatisation in 1994 and is also carrying a debt...

Gov't stands by Air J
GOVERNMENT HAS no plans to pull financial support from Air Jamaica despite last Friday's revelations that the national carrier owes it $8.5 billion, says Information Minister Burchell Whiteman.