It is expected that more than bells will ring today at the 67th annual conference of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) which will, by acclamation, endorse Prime Minister Andrew Holness as the party's anointed leader.
The atmosphere will be electric, energetic, ecstatic and expectant today at the National Arena and its environs as Labourites come out in their massive to send a message to the People's National Party (PNP) and to crown their youthful leader.
According to the Business Dictionary, 'conflict of interest' arises in a situation that has the potential to undermine the impartiality of a person because of the possibility of a clash between the person's self-interest and professional interest or...
At the end of the article, 'Don't cry over spilt beer: Red Stripe and the cold, hard facts of capitalism' (Sunday Gleaner, October 23), I promised that I would next discuss the central challenge that the political managers and their technical advisers...
If you want to get your estranged lover to return to you, the best thing to do is to keep secrets from her and refuse to answer the questions she was bugging you about before she left you.
Approximately 20 years ago on October 11, 1991, Professor Anita Hill appeared before the United States (US) Senate Judiciary Committee and accused Judge Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. Judge Thomas, a black man, was the Republican nominee for the Supreme Court.
The Observer could hardly contain its glee. Exclaiming 'JLP ahead! Ruling party surges in RJR/TVJ polls', the paper said in its Thursday lead story: "Andrew Holness' ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has nosed ahead of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) in the latest opinion polls, setting off ringing bells and back-slapping among Labourites."
It all began out of sibling rivalry. Owen loved his little sister Thelia dearly, the brightest most loveable child one could imagine. He wondered if his parents still loved him though, as the darling child claimed all the attention once his.
I note that the prime minister has reopened the discussion on reincorporating Jamaicans living in the diaspora into Jamaican economic and political life. I would like to begin by stating that I think that the furore and righteous indignation that surround this dual-citizenship issue are overblown and smack of hypocrisy.
With this instalment, this column opens its 25th year. When a pump attendant at my regular gas station tells me, "I read you every Sunday" and then asks, "How yuh manage to write all a dem tings deh?" and when a university's department of philosophy invites me, untrained in the discipline, to a consultative luncheon to discuss its curriculum, I have more than adequate compensation for the downside of the business of writing...
Andrew Holness' potentially historic end-garrison-politics inauguration address has spurred much debate about what a garrison is, which constituencies are garrisons, and even if garrisons exist. Few have referenced probably the most significant document produced on the topic, namely, the 1997 Report of the National Committee on Political Tribalism, often called the Kerr Garrison Report.
We're currently in the throes of the usual overdose of hysteria regarding a 12-year sentence handed down by Justice David Fraser. It seems the villain here is the judge, and the only way to satisfy the purveyors of hyperbole would be to burn him in effigy then apply tar and feathers and run him out of town on a rail.
When oranges become green and Hay is of the same colour, then is it surprising that the Customs-built seat in the vehicle abandoned by the Driver is not transparent plastic but green fake leather?
We are bracing for an early election. The European Union (EU) is bracing for imminent collapse; or, at the very least, a rocky transition into something else.
Danville Walker has stepped into a sea of controversy since news leaked that he, Mr Clean, has decided to enter the murky waters of representational politics.
Some three decades and five years ago, an incumbent Government of Jamaica ran a brilliant and hugely successful campaign for re-election.- Colin Bullock
It is rather surprising that the opinion makers and policy analysts in the Jamaican society appear to have been taken off-guard by the strong, threatening and direct... - Glenda Simms
Below is an excerpted presentation delivered by Contractor General Greg Christie as part of the Caribbean International Network Lecture Series in New York on October 26.
Long before Prime Minister Andrew Holness was sworn in as Jamaica's ninth prime minister, many a commentator had already judged his future performance.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness, still in waiting to be leader of the JLP, will be keynote speaker at the annual conference of the East Central St James constituency.
