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Profit-led economic strategy has failed Jamaica
In the build-up to the 2011 general election, the People's National Party (PNP) pledged to shape a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), "taking into account the present realities of the Jamaican society and the need to facilitate growth in our economy, if we are to make social and economic progress as ...more
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Boyne's Profile reaches its 25th milestone today
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
This column is pleased to recognise and pay tribute to my colleague journalist Ian Boyne whose television programme Profile commemorates its 25th anniversary today, February 22, 2012. I am aware that a lot was written in both Sunday papers on Febr ...more
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The pernicious Persian provocation
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
This unholy troika (from left) Iran's President Ahmadinejad, Pakistan's President Zardari and Afghanistan's President Karzai are a formidable force to be reckoned with The increased frequency of bellicose rhetoric combined with dangerously provo ...more
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The JPS two-year promise
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Dear Reader, The saying we all know so well, "a promise is a comfort to a fool", is strikingly apropos as we ponder the so-called good news from the Jamaica Public Service. At a press conference last week by the light and power company, the announ ...more
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Jamaica House press briefing bastardised
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The post-Cabinet press briefing has become bastardised. Introduced by PJ Patterson when he was prime minister, the press briefing was a useful means of communicating decisions of Cabinet and matters discussed at its meetings to the public mostly by t ...more
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It seems like nothing is happening
Monday, February 20, 2012
It's a short distance between Palm Sunday and Good Friday, but it feels like nothing is happening, and not even the superfluity of ministerial audits, necessary though they are in exposing corruption, seem to be working to correct the "auto-pilot" fe ...more
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Are sprinting prowess and prostate cancer related?
Monday, February 20, 2012
THIS year will mark 50 years since Jamaica became an independent nation. It is also anticipated that it will be an outstanding year for Jamaica as it prepares to participate in the upcoming summer Olympics in London. Jamaica's athletic sprinting pro ...more
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JDF chiefs: profiles in Jamaican courage
Monday, February 20, 2012
The Pollyanna in me had been struggling with the tragic death of Edgar Gallimore and the troubling crime statistics, so thank goodness, I made it to last Thursday's "Conversation with JDF Chiefs 1973 to present". At the UWI Faculty of Law, history un ...more
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Bashing the Church
Sunday, February 19, 2012
WE have again returned to one of those seasons when it is time for the bashing of the Church. It may not have come to the attention of some persons that this is a cyclical process. In-between these cyclical moments, the Church and her message are of ...more
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Oil's well that ends well
Sunday, February 19, 2012
OIL wells off the coast of South America's only English-speaking country, Guyana, are now being drilled in earnest. Already Guyana's economy is benefiting from millions of dollars being pumped by two companies into the operations. Should the drilling ...more
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Jamaica, the land of reggae
Sunday, February 19, 2012
MY column last week focused on Jamaica not being an island in the economic, political or cultural sense. I said that the country was not insular and had a major impact on the world; it was a brand, a destination and more. Jamaica is a global brand t ...more
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Controlling corruption, transforming governance
Sunday, February 19, 2012
A lightly edited version of Professor Trevor Munroe's address to the first annual Prosecutors' Anti-corruption Training Programme on February 10, 2011. LET us begin with an understanding of what corruption is in a generic governance related sense. I ...more
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Nabbing the fire starter
Sunday, February 19, 2012
LOCAL Government Minister Noel Arscott, in a radio discussion with the top-class journalists from Nationwide News Network about the Riverton fire, did not convey the idea, certainly to me, that the ministry is in safe and competent hands. When quest ...more
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'Motty' and me
Sunday, February 19, 2012
What a sad and tragic last couple of weeks: Mayer Matalon, Dudley Thompson, Barclay Ewart, Wilmot 'Motty' Perkins, Edgar Gallimore and just when you thought the roll call had stopped: Whitney Houston. Even the knowledge that nothing lasts forever &md ...more
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Road rage, burning garbage, and their stressful impact
Sunday, February 19, 2012
The sudden passing of Whitney Houston was sad news for the whole world and reminded us all of the fragility of the really gifted and the dangers of drug addiction that made a sad deterioration of perhaps one of the world's greatest singers happen rig ...more
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T&T's 'ole mas' politics before tomorrow's carnival
Sunday, February 19, 2012
FOR THE next two days, starting tomorrow, Trinidad and Tobago will be gripped in what it boastfully markets as the "greatest (cultural) show on earth" — its annual carnival. Brazil would be amused, satisfied that such a claim belongs to its wor ...more
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Come back, Garvey, all is forgiven
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Fifty years on in Independence, it is alarming to discover that there exists a growing list of Jamaicans intent on sabotaging the legacy of Marcus Garvey with cynicism, ignorance and self-contempt. Numbered among these misguided souls are those who ...more
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'What comes out of the loudspeaker'
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Our calendar, it appears, contains not only the days of the week and the dozen months, but also denotes almost every one of the year's 365 days to honour something or other. This week, we added a new "day" to the list. In case you haven't heard, last ...more
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Made in Jamaica! - Buy Jamaican! Why?
Friday, February 17, 2012
Please check your house or workplace. What do you have that's "Made in Jamaica"? We cannot even produce a good toilet roll. I used to smuggle toilet rolls and my respect for the British grew when they evolved from greaseproof paper to a tufted toilet ...more
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The People's Downtown
Friday, February 17, 2012
WILL DOWNTOWN KINGSTON really be revived as a centre of commercial activity, and in the near future at that? Yes, it can. Can ole-time Kingston come back again? Not overnight. It is not easy for ole time sinting to return just so. It takes time and e ...more
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Perkins and I had our disagreements
Thursday, February 16, 2012
It is in exceedingly poor taste, broadly and with an acute recognition of one's own frailty, to lambaste the recently deceased, when in life one could not have summoned up enough courage to defend one's criticism of him, before his face, so to speak. ...more
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Rights, responsibilities and civics
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Wilmot Perkins, who recently died, had different political and religious views from mine. We crossed paths on his radio programme, and I stood up to him; the last time being 11 years ago in 2001. But it always ended amicably and Perkins was quite so ...more
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Janice Budd's story spotlights discrimination by Traffic Authority
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
JANICE Budd deserves congratulations for her front-page story in the Sunday Observer of February 5 , "You? Drive? Hell No!" The story chronicles a classic case of discrimination against people with a physical disability. I was astonished to hear that ...more
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The politics of poverty
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
THERE are some statements that should not be allowed to go unchallenged, even if expressing a contrary view pits one against a personality for whom one has great respect and admiration. Such is the statement attributed to Foreign Affairs and Foreign ...more
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Unsafe and polluted
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Dear Reader, The stories may not appear to be connected but they are. The drowning of two teenage boys in Portland and the fire at the Riverton City landfill in Kingston have one important thing in common. They are both stark examples of the neglige ...more
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Wilmot Perkins, crusader for justice and the poor
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
JOURNALIST and broadcaster Wilmot Perkins was a fearless crusader for justice and the poor of Jamaica. In his monumental career Perkins had to fight off many challenges of survival to emerge as Jamaica's leading talk show host. Indeed, he was more t ...more
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The iconoclastic Wilmot Perkins
Monday, February 13, 2012
"Good morning Mr Perkins, I am happy to be on your programme, Sir", a caller once said. To that, Motty impishly replied, "So what you want me to do, give you a prize?" But whether one loved him or hated him, Wilmot Perkins was by far one of Jamaica's ...more
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Legends abound in our Jamaica
Monday, February 13, 2012
Have you ever been hugged by Mama Joy Baker? Well, you are missing out big time. In those strong arms I felt the extraordinary love and caring of this legendary septuagenarian from High Holborn Street in downtown Kingston. This is the love that provi ...more
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Riverton fire: Spontaneous combustion or arson?
Sunday, February 12, 2012
WANT to have a reasonably good indicator that a fire is about to erupt at the Riverton City dump? Visit sections of the highway in proximity to the site. There you will see huge mounds of dirt recently taken there by trucks as two sources told me the ...more
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Envisioning the impossible
Sunday, February 12, 2012
THE University of the West Indies (UWI) Toronto Benefit Gala has been an amazing journey that began two years ago when Elizabeth Buchanan Hind, executive director of International Advancement for the UWI, asked Ray Chang to be the patron. The Hon G ...more
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Jamaica is not an island
Sunday, February 12, 2012
No, I did not hit my head in the last week. We all agree that Jamaica is an "island" based on the geographic definition of a land mass surrounded by water but not big enough to be a continent. However, Jamaica is not an island in the economic or poli ...more
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Barclay Ewart: A champion of Champs
Sunday, February 12, 2012
A report in the February 5 edition of the Sunday Observer on the Championship performances of the late Alexander Barclay Ewart appeared to have missed the mark on the facts as they relate to his four years of participation for Jamaica College at Cham ...more
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Rethinking the approach to crime and development
Sunday, February 12, 2012
UNSURPRISINGLY, a new United Nations report released last week identified crime as a major choke hold on the economy. Crime, particularly violent crime, tends to have a negative impact on vulnerable economies such as those of the Caribbean. It erode ...more
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Happy birthday
Sunday, February 12, 2012
TODAY I take the liberty of saying happy birthday to two Jamaican icons, one a person and the other a family. Both have shown the best of what we can dream and accomplish without changing their persona over the years. Lois Lake-Sherwood celebrates a ...more
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Human sexuality and the buggery law
Sunday, February 12, 2012
NUMEROUS viewpoints have been expressed on the matter of homosexuality and the Jamaican buggery law since it was first mentioned in the political leadership debate leading up to the December 2011 general election. Supporting and opposing viewpoints ...more
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Don't cry for Argentina
Sunday, February 12, 2012
THE national and regional interests of Commonwealth Caribbean countries would hardly be served by backing Argentina in its long-running dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands. An Associated Press (AP) report of a meeting of some Latin Americ ...more
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Troubling decision by a Haitian judge for Caricom
Sunday, February 12, 2012
IF the governments of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) do not agree that the statute of limitations should be used to exclude any political leader from facing justice for crimes against humanity while controlling state power, then they should let th ...more
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Ready or not, a newer world emerges
Saturday, February 11, 2012
The new world order established in the 1980s by President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Aspen, Colorado, is dead. Market fundamentalism has destroyed global capitalism. Newer poles of global leadership are emerging to challeng ...more
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'My whole life ... shall be devoted to your service'
Saturday, February 11, 2012
You don't have to be a diehard monarchist to admire and respect Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, the woman who is now celebrating her 60th year on the British throne. Queen Elizabeth the Second, in addition to being head of state of 15 other Commonwealth c ...more
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Straighten up and dress right
Friday, February 10, 2012
WARMY IS IN FULL FLIGHT. Having called us to contemplate the continuing relevance of the post of political ombudsman, he has turned to the matter of a dress code for Parliament. His focus is on the male of the species. As one who favours the carefull ...more
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By his boards we know a minister
Friday, February 10, 2012
BOARD membership is not a vanity job. Every road dug up, building raised, exam sat, water not delivered, failed school, rickety minibus, clinic opened, hotel approved and the X6 that zips past was approved by a board. This is high public service, har ...more
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Getting JEEP out of the showroom
Thursday, February 09, 2012
In the year before the general election, it was the major concern as it was in the month before the PNP swept to power. Weeks after the December 29 election, it remains the major complaint among voters and many non-voters. Jobs. Lack of them. It ma ...more
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Manley, Garveyism and Matalon
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Forty-three years ago today Michael Manley was elected president of the People's National Party. Twenty-three years ago today, the PNP returned to power and Michael Manley once again got a chance to be prime minister. In this 50th anniversary jubile ...more
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Secularism engulfing the Western Hemisphere
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
In the interest of clarity, secularism is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as: "concerned with the affairs of this world; not spiritual or sacred, not concerned with religion or religious belief, not bound by religious rule". The latest wave ...more
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Kay Osborne ends her glorious TVJ innings
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
THE announcement that TVJ's General Manager Kay Osborne had resigned from the RJR Group of Companies was a bombshell not just for that company but also for the entire media fraternity. Osborne's star had risen inexorably over the seven years that she ...more
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All that glitters is not gold
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
THE current furore over Sunday racing has once again sparked renewed public debate with the Church being accused of practising 'selective morality' by jumping on 'pet peeves' but not 'speaking out' with similar passion on other important issues. Let ...more
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Credibility is crucial to politics
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
In politics the credibility of those who govern is most important. Many believe the Jamaica Labour Party lost the election in December, partly because of the way it handled the Manatt-Christopher Coke extradition affair. And they questioned the cred ...more
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Even the horses need a day off
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Dear Reader, So the matter of horse racing on Sunday is back on the national agenda and once again the battle lines are drawn between the two opposing sides, largely focusing on the narrow debate about gambling rights. Quite frankly, the issue is m ...more
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Good move to reintroduce civics in schools
Monday, February 06, 2012
Education Minister Ronald Thwaites deserves commendation for reintroducing the subject and teaching of civics as part of the school curriculum starting in September. And while I have learned not to be too precipitate in celebrating announcements lik ...more
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Balancing politics and patriotism
Monday, February 06, 2012
As we look at the flurry of activity around resignations and new appointments, we understand the far reach of a political change of weather. Those of us who have watched the "musical chairs" of government over many decades have grown philosophical.We ...more
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Admit it when you are off base, Mr Christie
Sunday, February 05, 2012
IF more of our public servants were as efficient and prompt to respond to criticisms as the contractor general, whether it is from politicians, members of the public or the media, we could make the claim that those who sit at the top of the civil ser ...more
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The glass ceiling and Parliament
Sunday, February 05, 2012
My sincere sympathy goes out to the family of Barclay Ewart. He was a gentleman, a committed Jamaican, and industrial entrepreneur of the highest order. He was also a sprinter about whom many legendary stories have been told across the high schools o ...more
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AJ's plea reflects Jamaica's great need
Sunday, February 05, 2012
THE plea by Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister AJ Nicholson for a revision of Jamaica's status as a middle-income country in order to qualify for more development assistance reflects the Government's dire need for concessionary financing; but ...more
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Jamaica and the IMF in 2012
Sunday, February 05, 2012
LAST week I was a guest on the radio programme The Breakfast Club where I was asked to give my opinions regarding the IMF and Jamaica going forward. The key points that I made and believe that many Jamaicans may be overlooking are that the circumsta ...more
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The Caribbean: Not so gay
Sunday, February 05, 2012
On the Caribbean island of Barbados with a population of about 250,000 people, approximately 3,426 persons are living with HIV, and the minister of health, Stephen Lashley, has warned "that is not likely the exact figure". The HIV/AIDS pandemic is p ...more
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The CDB: Realities and challenges
Sunday, February 05, 2012
INDICATORS of likely worsening of the Eurozone economic crisis in 2012 could have a negative impact on funding resources for the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) just when it needs to be in an improved position to better assist its borrowing member c ...more
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The unfortunate Chris Huhne
Sunday, February 05, 2012
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" is an old saying. But one senior British politician had reason to remember it as he felt obliged to step down from office last week. Chris Huhne was a brilliant journalist, politician and businessman. He grad ...more
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Can we all just get along?
Sunday, February 05, 2012
RECEIVED a rather large file via e-mail from the Institute of Jamaica of a poster advertising the Jamaica Music Museum's events for February — 'Reggae Month Grounation 2012'. Just so that you know, the lecture hall at the Institute of Jamaica w ...more
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Building a new Afghanistan, one flower at a time
Saturday, February 04, 2012
It's the most expensive vegetable product in the world, is absolutely legal, and out-prices by far even the highly lucrative illegal drugs. Only a small amount - around 300 tonnes - is produced in the world each year, yet this item is coveted for its ...more
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Travails of Kabila
Saturday, February 04, 2012
Since Sudan was split into two, Congo Kinshasa is now the biggest country in Africa, about the size of all of Western Europe. Yet, despite its vast size, Congo has fewer paved roads than Abuja or many other African cities. It has been the tragedy of ...more
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Value for money and transparency come when there's competitive and transparent tender
Saturday, February 04, 2012
Dear Editor, I write with reference to a column which appears in the February 2 edition of your newspaper that you have assertively but misguidedly entitled as follows: "China Harbour Engineering and Greg Christie's huge error". The column is writt ...more
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Cuss-cuss or creative action?
Friday, February 03, 2012
IS THE NEW Minister of Culture and Youth "vindictive, vicious and tribal" by expressing concerns about the state of the accounts and management of the Jamaica 50 celebrations, as is believed by the former minister, who reminds us that she laid the fo ...more
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The poor are not like us
Friday, February 03, 2012
Being rich sure beats being poor. They say the poor will always be with us, but then so will the rich. Truth is there are all kinds of poor people, including the grinding poverty in Africa, but the poor here are special. Our poor have standards and c ...more
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China Harbour Engineering and Greg Christie’s huge error
Thursday, February 02, 2012
AS one of the most indefatigable public servants that this country has ever seen, Contractor General Greg Christie will naturally be in the front of the line when God comes in the great rapture – the “take-up” of his most favoured p ...more
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Rudolph Burke in Black History
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Today marks 40 years since the death of Rudolph Burke of Llandewey, St Thomas, a black Jamaican who lived between 1899 and 1972. He was a member of the Independence constitution committee in 1962, a former cabinet minister and a former president of ...more
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Jamaica's ranking improves on World Press Freedom Index
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Recently I talked with a visiting graduate student who is working on a media study, part of which has to do with "The changing role of newspapers in Jamaica". She told me she planned to focus on the nine months leading up to the Coke extradition as a ...more
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Cuba moving ahead
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
In January 1959, the victory of the revolutionary forces allowed the Cuban people to attain true independence and sovereignty. As a result of more than five decades of revolution, and despite challenges including external aggressions of various kind ...more
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Will the 48 per cent please stand up?
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Dear Reader, Many of us did not vote in the December 29 election, and for good reasons. I described it as an election of “convenience and corruption” — called hurriedly amidst a Jamaica fraught with allegations of corruption. And ...more
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Paul Robeson hailed
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
IT was 64 years ago that as a young journalist I joined about 50,000 people at the Kingston Race Course (now National Heroes Park) to hear Paul Robeson, the celebrated Black American singer and international civil rights activist, perform and speak. ...more
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Elections have consequences
Monday, January 30, 2012
Elections have consequences - consequences for the victors and the vanquished. But as I wrote in 2002 after the People's National Party won its fourth consecutive term, "To whom much is given, much is expected." The PNP knows that there is no room fo ...more
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Tessa Sanderson: JA is 'the surprise country'
Monday, January 30, 2012
Tessa Sanderson commanded our attention at the RJR Sports Awards. The Jamaican-born UK Olympic Gold medallist reminded us that in sport, and may we add in life, there are no guarantees. Sanderson traced her life for us from her idyllic childhood in S ...more
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The Powerhouses in the PNP
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Following the rude dismissal of the JLP administration on December 29, 2011, once the new PNP administration was formed it became quite clear to me where power in the party would be concentrated and from where firm performance results could be expect ...more
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Contributing on your last lap?
Sunday, January 29, 2012
ONE of my closest friends, Josef Powell, a godson of my father, recently sent me an e-mail that included two very important lines for me: "The journey will always be challenging but at the end of it all should be worthwhile and fulfilling. After all, ...more
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Raising bar for a new partnership in Caricom
Sunday, January 29, 2012
ALTHOUGH mandated studies have found an estimated overall 64 per cent level of "compliance" in the Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME), the harsh reality is that it is yet to be "fully embraced" by a number of member states. That, basically, is ...more
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Look to the diaspora, Minister McNeill
Sunday, January 29, 2012
The new tourism minister, Wykeham McNeill, recently said that he is looking for new ways for Jamaica to grow its income from tourism. He is correct. And I can suggest one obvious way. That is for Jamaica to target its own diaspora as a market. Jamai ...more
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The dead horse theory
Sunday, January 29, 2012
The Hon minister of transport and works Dr Omar Davies said in a statement to Parliament on Tuesday that of the US$400 million which was the total funds in the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme, $398 million had been used up, which means t ...more
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The death of an iconic brand
Sunday, January 29, 2012
MY condolences go out to the family and friends of the late Hon Dudley Thompson. I also give thanks for his long and productive life. I will say no more as I had written about his accomplishments in Africa and the closeness he brought between our isl ...more
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LIAT: Time for regional action
Sunday, January 29, 2012
The three main shareholder governments in LIAT — the airline that is vital to the movement of tourists and locals alike in the Caribbean — are scheduled to meet on January 31 to consider options for the airline which lost US$14.8 million ...more
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Googlisation-globalisation synergy
Sunday, January 29, 2012
SIVA Vaidhyanathan in his book, The Googlization of Everything (and why we should worry) published by University of California Press in 2011, coined the phrase: "googlisation". This is not surprising, since recent editions of dictionaries have includ ...more
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What we worry about when we worry about Greek debt
Sunday, January 29, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Remember Greece? It's been two years since a financial crisis erupted in the birthplace of drama, and the final act is still unfinished. A second week of talks in Athens ended Friday with no deal between the country, the Europe ...more
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Dudley was, above all, a superb advocate
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Many tributes have been paid to Dudley Thompson for his work in politics and for his efforts to place Africa at the centre of our consciousness. But it is as a lawyer, which constituted a big portion of his life, that I remember him best. Dudley ...more
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Grabbing and drinking from the chalice of political poison
Saturday, January 28, 2012
WHY is the JLP sulking and many walking around with long faces? It is clear that the PNP wanted power. The PNP wanted it really, really badly. You have to wonder why. Out of habit? Even if they had put up a token fight, the JLP should be happy now th ...more
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Bad English, bad patois, bad driving
Friday, January 27, 2012
No child goes to school to learn to speak. The child speaks how and what he hears at home. I see it in my village in the hills. The housekeepers kids who grew up with mine and spent most time at our house speak good English; her others do not. In the ...more
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The wake-up call of the Palisadoes
Friday, January 27, 2012
WHILE THE storm clouds gather over the grandly titled Palisadoes Shoreline Protection and Rehabilitation Project, has anyone stopped to take a good look at what we have mortgaged the future of the next generation for? I know it as a work in progress, ...more
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JDIP, Omar Davies, Peter Phillips and Mike Henry — interesting times ahead
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Well, it is now official that, as I stated in last Thursday's column, the JDIP funds are almost all used up, either in money paid for work done or, in forward commitments - for work to be done. In a statement to Parliament on Tuesday, Transport and ...more
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Dudley Thompson's contribution
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Dudley Thompson's passing at a very senior age is nevertheless a bit early for two things. First, his contribution as a Pan Africanist should be highlighted in February when we observe Black History Month. Second, his apology for the statement "No a ...more
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Jamaica - the phoenix rising from the economic ashes
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Dr Peter Phillips's view of the way ahead for Jamaica's economy was well presented as reported in the Daily Observer January 28. Clear, readable language characterised his exposition of the combined growth and development path for Jamaica's economy. ...more
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Time to review selection criteria for Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year titles
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
There was a palpable air of disappointment in the ballroom of the Pegasus Hotel last Friday, just before the name of the RJR Sports Foundation Jamaica Sportsman of the Year title was disclosed. The master of ceremonies had just announced that Yohan B ...more
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The poverty of ideas and action
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Dear Reader, For a country with some of the most brilliant minds one could find anywhere, I continue to be perplexed by the deficit of ideas, and worse yet, the lack of courage and conviction of those who are educated to challenge the status quo. T ...more
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JPS's new licence
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
THE Jamaica Public Service Company's "amended and restated" All Island Electric Licence has so many features affecting consumers that the JPS should publish the relative sections as part of its consumer education programme. The media has not given mu ...more
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