The state owned national carrier Air Jamaica has been getting a lot of attention as the country grapples with what to do with the perennial loss making carrier during testing financial times. Since it began operating in 1968, it has experienced its share of expansion and contraction and only once recorded an operating profit in [...]
In the space of 48 hours, within the last month, Hardley Lewin and Derick Latibeaudiere were relieved of their duties as Police Commissioner and Governor of the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) respectively even if not in that order. Actually, we were told that Lewin had resigned his position as head honcho of the Jamaica Constabulary [...]
As someone who tries to follow and keep up, as best I can, with events in Jamaica and here in the US, I have come to a (startling?) conclusion: We are in an age of inanity, ignorance and any other form of stupidity. We are in an age where the aforementioned qualities are being seen [...]
Jamaica is bankrupt. A rather dramatic opening statement but with the way things are in Jamaica these days it might not be so far-fetched. If Jamaica was a business entity it would be considered to be bankrupt and its creditors would either force it to reorganize or liquidate. Today, we have a situation in Jamaica [...]
Ever so often, there comes a point when one has to, more or less, ‘take stock’ of one’s life and makes some decisions as to what one wants to do and where does one go with their life. This should also apply with the existence of any nation. I do not mean that all life [...]
Since the 2007 general election, there has been any number of articles, columns and editorials written about the results and about why the People’s National Party (PNP) lost (and how the Jamaica Labour Party won) and the state of the party (the PNP, that is). We have heard and read of the challenges to Portia [...]
I usually read the online editions of both The Daily Gleaner and The Jamaica Observer and on May 28, 2009, a story that appeared in both caught my eye. It was the one about Abe Dabdoub and his legal representatives asking that they be compensated to the tune of almost J$50 million by Daryl Vaz. [...]
In the first week of April, Bruce spoke to the masses and he told them, finally, that things are rough, tough and tight and we’ll have to make do with less. He said he’ll be foregoing his salary increase and that the other government ministers will cut their salaries by 10 per cent (i.e. each [...]
So, the by-election in West Portland has come and gone and Daryl Vaz of the JLP has once again, this time as an unquestioned Jamaican, emerged victorious versus Kenneth Rowe, a one-time JLP2K member who switched parties. Both the JLP and PNP poured major resources into this contest hoping that their man would emerge victorious. [...]
Over these last few years, there have been newspaper editorials and columns calling, challenging, chiding and cajoling the Jamaican government, whether it was the PNP-led version or this current version led by the JLP, to do the little things to make Jamaica a better place. There have been announcements made, a number of times with [...]