The Gleaner editorial of Sunday, September 18 appeared, on the surface, to be a response to the current crisis facing the city, in terms of the illegal construction of buildings, but actually turned out to be a disingenuous attempt to discredit the work...
Farmer Joe telephoned saying that he was in the Corporate Area, having driven over to transport Harry back to Trelawny to spend the remainder of his three-week holiday with relatives in the parish.
The international media have come to its own conclusions about the reasons for Bruce Golding's decision to step down as prime minister and party leader.
Mash down garrison politics?The nine-month reluctance of Prime Minister Bruce Golding to sanction the extradition of the undisputed head of the strongest garrison in Jamaica was, arguably, the most lethal blow to his 40-year political career.
We have been advised by Jamaica House that leisurely outgoing Prime Minister Bruce Golding will address the nation today about his decision to stand down.
I am submitting this section from my biography, 'My Life and Leadership: Volume I', pages 160-163 - a model used by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to select a new prime minister in the mid-term period.The JLP, under Donald...
This is not good news for Jamaica. The shaky economies of our major trading partners to our north, the lingering effects of a devastating global economic crisis, an inherently and structurally weak economy and deep-seated social problems all converge to put serious doubt on our economic prospects.
Portia Simpson Miller cannot win. If she had used her massive party conference last weekend to simply rant, ridicule and blast Bruce Golding and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), she would have been damned for being negative and not talking solutions. When she proposed some solutions for tackling our unemployment crisis, she was dismissed for merely trying to bribe voters and 'fool up' people.
The People's National Party (PNP) recognises that we have an economic emergency. At its conference last weekend, it made proposals to deal with it. It recognises that there is a job emergency; a production emergency; and an emergency of living standards and upward social mobility. It wants to be the government to deal with them.
Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller brought some exciting news to the country at her party conference last Sunday. This is very important, as it is said she is hinging her party's anticipated return to power on employment. What makes this so exciting is that countries great and small have been struggling with this problem since the recession.
The Bruce Golding/ Christopher 'Dudus' Coke concatenation has, and will, continue to occupy public space for some time to come. Coke has become one of Golding's biggest nightmares. The entire situation could have been avoided if Golding had stuck to his promise to be 'new and different'. He did not.
Whatever its off-road capabilities might be, the JEEP of the Opposition PNP will need the JDIP of the governing JLP. Or to put it another way, Jamaica's development will need cross-party government and opposition collaboration on a number of critical things. But the way criticism and condemnation have been poured upon JEEP and JDIP, the prospects do not look good at all.
Amid a wave of concerns regarding the status of the 2010 standby arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it appears that in at least the short term, the programme is safe as far as the next fund disbursement is concerned.
The outrageous headline 'Brownings, please', published in The Sunday Gleaner on September 11, has set off a firestorm of responses by a wide cross section of the Jamaican population.Tyrone Reid, the newspaper's enterprise reporter, has informed the...
Several recent email responses to my articles are from young people in and out of Jamaica - one still in high school, requesting that I write more on the social history of Jamaica as I recall it - and they express how much they learn from these writings.
The People's National Party (PNP) is holding its annual conference this weekend and the public session of the conference is today. The keynote speaker will, of course, be the party president, Portia Simpson Miller. The party well knows that elections are due by next September. It says it is "progressive, strong and ready".
I accept the former Chinese leader's invitation. A 2009 Pew Research Center poll showed that majorities in 13 of 25 countries believed China would replace the United States as the world's leading superpower.
Jamaican Christians, certainly in the majority for the time being, are finding themselves more and more in a sticky mess when it comes to the issue of homosexuality. There are not many other things that their holy book rails against with such explicit clarity and vehemence.
The high cost of tuition-free education in Jamaica highlights the difficulty confronted by the Government in providing quality education and the financial burdens encountered by parents to access it. The latter is most evident in the back-to-school periods, and this year was no different.
This is the comment made by attorney-at-law and columnist Gordon Robinson writing in The Sunday Gleaner of September 10. He then launched a tirade against Peter Bunting of the People's National Party (PNP), who dared to suggest that Jamaica should, and a PNP administration would, go after the Dudus co-conspirators.
Recent news articles have suggested that there may be positive discrimination in employment in favour of 'brownings', or people with brown skin colour, institutionalised in Jamaica. Those persons who have expressed this preference regarding their employees should be aware that such discrimination is unconstitutional in Jamaica...
