A recycled minister and a number of others were sworn in last Wednesday as the prime minister reshuffled his Cabinet.The new ministers and ministers of state took the oath of office: "I … do swear that I will … freely give my counsel and...
I recently had a talk with Marie Sparkes, director of Pure Potential LLC Jamaica, whose company has been strategically getting our Jamaican society at all levels to deal more seriously with...
Three blind mice, three blind mice,See how they run, see how they run,They all ran after the farmer's wife,Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,Did you ever see such a thing in your life,As three blind mice?It is not to be believed that...
This is a response from Paula V. Llewellyn, QC, director of public prosecutions, to the Gleaner editorial of June 15, titled 'The DPP and Fighting Corruption', and The Gleaner editorial of June 17, 'The DPP in an age of transparency'.
A chronic failure of mid-level politicians to launch in both major political parties has left most Jamaicans pessimistic about the future. These 'symbols of the future' have perfected the art of politicking to the extent that the populace is dying to see them beyond their political façades.
Delusional behaviour appears to be public officialdom's occupational hazard. Take our prime minister, for example. First, he snubs invitations from a sitting US president. Then he accuses the US of harassment. Then he visits Washington. Our US ambassador undiplomatically applauds herself for arranging high-level meetings.
Many corruption scandals and scandals over the abuse of power occur at the level of the individual's private motives in politics (greed, lust for power, self-serving values, incompetence) and at the level of the structures that make up the political system. The Manatt-Coke commission report can, in a sense, be read as a report at those two levels...
History has recorded for us the period in which monsters, disguised as legitimate slave catchers and traders, corralled thousands of Africans (men, women and children) and forcibly transferred them to the so-called New World to become the prototypes for the most inhumane moment in the human story.
G2K President Delano Seiveright has been generally roundly chastised for his view expressed in social media and Wikileaked from a 2009 exchange with US Embassy personnel that known People's National Party (PNP) supporters in the public service should be removed and the jobs given to Labourites.
That's stark and crushing to national pride. But it's only one of the few stark facts which one will encounter in the World Bank's hefty, more than 300-page report just released a few days ago, titled Jamaica Country Economic Memorandum: Unlocking Growth.
The fact that renewable energy resources such as solar radiation and wind are available free of cost leads many to believe that electricity can be generated from these resources at lower cost than that being experienced utilising fossil fuels.
A symptom of the deep political frustration that afflicts our country is the recent rash of calls to replace the current crop of parliamentarians with younger persons. In their constant search to find excuses for our failures, political pundits on the periphery have determined that the peak of human wisdom is at the age of 40...
There is strong consensus among many that the Manatt-Coke commission report has merely sought to pull a 'George' on us and that it is a report for the birds, as it were.
The decision by The Gleaner to publish stories based on leaked United States diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks has drawn the ire of some, including the Honourable Bruce Golding.
On June 3, I was greatly honoured and extremely privileged to have been invited to the Canadian Senate Chambers to listen to the Throne Speech which marked the opening of the 41st session of Parliament.
Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. It's a lesson West Indies cricket fans have learnt ad nauseam over the past 15 years. Since 1995 we have watched in disbelief as unimagined new depths are regularly plunged.
