DEAD HEAT! PNP, JLP locked in a tussle a week away from election day
As Hurricane Dean approached the island a week ago, the electorate was at a crossroad about which party should form the next government.

Political campaigning to resume - ECJ commends Cabinet for early election date
Jamaicans should brace themselves this week for an increase in election campaigning after a lull due to the passage of Hurricane Dean.

Noteworthy proposals on justice reform
Judging by the sheer number of placard-bearing women and men who have made their way on to the evening news demanding ‘JUSTICE!’, reminding authorities of their essential rights, and feeling they have been disenfranchised from these, the topic would have been an impossible one to omit from any serious manifesto. Both parties try to convince us that they are indeed serious about citizens’ individual rights. Complete with quotes from Martin Luther King Jr., the manifestos make earnest, if not accurate, pronouncements about justice being a fundamental pillar of any thriving democracy.

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