One thing we learned attending various all-boy secondary schools was that if you didn't want a nickname to stick, don't protest about it. Boys will be boys, and cruel nicknames, based on peculiar behaviour and 'special' features or shapes, were a daily peril. We soon learned that, if you ignored the nickname, it went away...
Today's historic swearing-in of Jamaica's yet youngest prime minister is behind the schedule I have proposed by a week, but at least a full month ahead of the outgoing PM's initial timetable of departure. That timetable was crafted working backwards from the November 19 date of his party's annual national conference.
Perhaps, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) parliamentarian Ernest Smith neither gathered his thoughts together nor looked about him when, in the company of his government leadership and party stalwarts, he felt emboldened to declare to all Jamaica: "Show me your company, and I'll tell you who you are."
As Jamaica prepares to celebrate its 50th year of independence from British colonial rule in 2012, and with an impending general election on the political horizon, choosing a worthy leader should be number one on the electorate's political shopping...
The glaring headline, 'Teen sex slaves', reported by Enterprise Reporter Tyrone Reid in the September 25 edition of The Sunday Gleaner, was both shocking and extremely revealing.
The country should be uniting against any repressive and socially harmful policies being recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), rather than giving that dreaded institution any comfort from our disunity and political gamesmanship.We should...
Kudos to Dayton Campbell, Dawn Lindsay, and Hugh Dixon.And just who are these three? Dr Campbell is president of the Jamaica Medical Doctors' Association, Dawn Lindsay is a pharmacist and member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Jamaica, and Hugh Dixon...
In 10 days, Bruce Golding advanced Jamaican politics 10 years.He resigned as prime minister on September 25, then threw his weight behind the youngsters in his party, which led to 39-year-old Andrew Holness being proclaimed prime minister-designate on October 3.
As Jamaica stands on the threshold of crisis or opportunity, we must consider the critical role that leadership plays in the running of an enterprise or in the running of a country....
On October 1, The Gleaner reported that the pleas of residents of Sherwood Content in Trelawny for their community to be developed into a tourist attraction built around the world-class performance of a son of the soil, Usain Bolt, are...
A section of the media has been saying recently that the late Mr Tacius Golding, father of the present prime minister, was the first speaker of the House of Representatives.
And so it came to pass, after seven days and seven nights in the wilderness, Jamaica's prime minister finally got around to addressing the nation regarding his previously private announcement that he was abandoning his elected office before completing one term.
At his coronation at the New Earth (Terra Nova) Hotel, King Andrew delivered a fine address which sounded mostly all the right notes. But some elements of the coronation, and one aspect of the speech in particular, have me worried.
Prime minister and leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Bruce Golding, drops the 'bombshell' at a meeting of the Central Executive of the party on Sunday, September 25, that he would not be seeking re-election as party leader and would demit office...
I supported Portia Simpson Miller in both 2006 and 2008, for the leadership of the People's National Party (PNP), for three main reasons. She was the popular choice among Jamaicans and, therefore, was the democratic choice for me.
As close as it was predicted, he has won by more than a nose. In fact, he has beaten the whole nest of candidates and the only ones who didn't affirm his victory were the old nest. Now, unless there is an act of God or some act of the devil that he commits, Andrew Holness is not only going to be the next leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) but, more important, he is going to be the ninth prime minister of Jamaica.
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) seems determined to retain state power and not to smash this window of opportunity presented by the impending Golding resignation. The JLP has, in two weeks, moved from a party whose electoral chances many had written off to one which a number of people feel has the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) in consternation.
K.D. Knight is jinxed. His demeaning and derogatory remarks about Portia Simpson Miller's intellectual capacity during the leadership contest with his candidate, Peter Phillips, badly hurt Phillips.
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.
