The photo accompanying this article - capturing the gridlock on the Portmore toll road - graphically illustrates the social, spatial, environmental and political contradictions that have accompanied the private automobile-centred process of suburbanisation of the working class since the 1960s.
He wasn't really born on December 25, but we pretend that that we celebrate his birth each year. We have long lost Christ from Christmas, and given that we are also making believe that there is a temporary lull on electioneering, let us also pretend that the X we will mark in four days means Xmas.
Public discussion has been recently focusing on governance of the country and how best to manage administration and development. The time is, therefore, appropriate to discuss the strategies of the past on governance structures and how well they fared.
It's still too close to call, but it appears that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and Andrew Holness have more of the popular support than the Portia Simpson Miller-led People's National Party (PNP).
The Gleaner's editorial response, 'A policy of traffic gridlock' (November 24), to the announcement from Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of industry, investment and commerce, regarding his plans to revive the used-car business, ...
I watched the first debate between youth of the two major political parties and noted that they have both latched on to higher education funding as a campaign issue.
The world's population reached seven billion earlier this year, and according to Jim Clifton, chairman of Gallup, a global research-based consultancy company, what the world currently needs and will need in the future are jobs.
In a previous article, 'Shifting truth on bauxite' (Sunday Gleaner, November 27, 2011), mention was made of some of the positives that flowed from the bauxite-alumina industry.
Four days after Christmas, Jamaicans will go to the polls to elect 63 persons to represent their interests in the Lower House of Representatives of the nation's Parliament, a little under 10 months before the due date.
The People's National Party (PNP), in its election manifesto, has brought to the table a set of economic proposals which are at once promising, hopeful, challenging, and balanced.
A manifesto is intended to convince voters that a future administration will provide the right environment and the right level of support towards the achievement of Vision 2030.
First, some clarification is in order. In his December 11 Gleaner column, 'Duppy polls, obfuscation, ignorance and simpletons', Bill Johnson wrote, in reference to my December 4 Gleaner article titled 'Political polls and PM promises':
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has finally decided to announce the date for the election after much teasing at his party's annual conference in November.
The national outcry after the auditor general's report on the management of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) has culminated in Prime Minister Andrew Holness' decision to conduct a forensic audit.
At the recent forum organised by The Gleaner on the state of the Jamaican economy, Don Robotham, former UWI professor now teaching in New York, warned that Jamaica's two major political parties lack the social legitimacy necessary to rescue the country...
Occasionally, I have asked myself, what if I had remained that Friday afternoon in 1967, at the headquarters of the National Workers' Union (NWU) on South Camp Road to meet with Michael Manley, a meeting arranged by my father, after I had walked off my...
The Gleaner has been continuing its relentless campaign to get the political parties to focus on issues and ideas, but it seems to be waging a losing battle, what with the almost daily eruptions of excitement over scandals, political outbursts and...
The Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) was trumpeted by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration as the most significant infrastructure programme ever undertaken by the GOJ.
Jamaica is again in a high state of political expectation, with a new prime minister, not yet 40, and with the disappointment expressed by many towards the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration under former Prime Minister Bruce Golding. Much is wanted from this JLP administration under Prime Minister Andrew Holness.
Last week, Prime Minister Holness, on relieving Mike Henry from his Cabinet post, said he would not tolerate corruption in his administration. This was juxtaposed with Transparency International's release of its latest country Corruption Perception Index ranking, where Jamaica rated 3.3 (out of 10) and placed 86th out of 183 countries.
