Politics

HAVING HAD its leader hauled over the coals for sanctioning the engagement of a United States law firm to lobby the US government on an extradition matter, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has called an […] […]

A tale of two PMs It’s not been tea and crumpets for Gordon Brown or Bruce Golding these days. Many say they know just what BG would have done in GB’s position… we think. But, […] […]

U.S. pro-life advocate hails Canada for anti-abortion stand on foreign aid OTTAWA—Pro-life advocates from the United States say they’re happy that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has adopted former U.S. president George W. Bush’s ban on […] […]

THE SOUNDS of consternation, shock and fury reverberated around Jamaica into boardrooms and bars, barber shops and parlours, on the streets and into homes as Jamaicans wrestled with the unabashed about-face of Prime Minister Bruce […] […]

NEW Zealand Prime Minister John Key found himself in hot water today after joking about an indigenous tribe eating him for dinner. Mr Key has been at loggerheads with a Maori tribe, the Tuhoe, over […] […]

CENTRAL MANCHESTER Member of Parliament (MP) Peter Bunting yesterday said Jamaicans who are taking a stand against crime could be putting their lives on the line, but stressed that it was necessary in order to […] […]

PRIME Minister Bruce Golding faced stinging criticism and calls for his resignation throughout yesterday, in the wake of his confession that he had approved his ruling party’s engagement of US law firm Manatt, Phelps and […] […]

AMID mounting criticisms over the Government’s credibility, Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday admitted in Parliament that he had given the green light for the ruling party to engage the services of US law firm Manatt […] […]

IMELDA Marcos, the flamboyant widow of deposed Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, looked set to make her political comeback on Tuesday, more than two decades after fleeing a popular uprising. The former first lady, 80, had […] […]

By Jean Lowrie-Chin In the midst of our anguish, the good people of this country continue to soldier on. Yes, many of us are “walking wounded”, deeply affected by the cruel way our friends and […] […]