In the Westminster democracy, Parliament is considered the highest court of the land. The lower house of parliament is especially important because its members are elected to represent the people. The lower house is important also because it is from that chamber the majority of the ministers of government (the cabinet) [...]
Notwithstanding the trepidation haunting Jamaicans as we contemplate a return to a borrowing relation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), dreaded conditionalities and all, this energy researcher will be cheering them on, providing they levy one particular conditionality amongst their menu! If the IMF can do for Jamaicans what successive government have been unable, or [...]
An Open Letter to the Government of Jamaica, “The Real Secret Jamaica”
As the saga unfolds as to which members of parliament are in possession of dual status or not and the continual game of hide and seek reign there seems to be only one loser, the people of Jamaica.
There is a held view by many and including myself, that irrespective of whether one is a PNP [...]
Americans are being encouraged to believe that there can exist a world in which there is no risk, but such a world is an ideal that cannot be realized. Every action, every response implies risk.
What VP Cheney and President Bush were promoting is the ancient response, if you encountered a stranger who was not [...]
When I was 13 going on 14, because I had done so well in the previous year I was promoted into the science stream instead of the arts stream which contained subjects like History and Literature that had always been my forte. Unable to cope with the work because of a deficiency in Math, I [...]
It is being reported that the Jamaican Minister of Transport, Mike Henry, has continued to push for his government to impose a new tax on petroleum to repair and maintain the island’s road network.
This proposal is obviously one of understandable desperation that will drive inflation in every area affecting the price of every [...]
In the Jamaica Observer of Sunday, March 29, 2009, Columnist, Mark Wignall had this to say:
‘MUCH of what the electorate uses to define Portia Simpson Miller is urban legend, fairytale. In politics however, a politician will accept all positives, especially when those defining the politician are not really interested in wrestling with the burden of [...]
The ruling of the Appellant Court – upholding the earlier ruling of Chief Justice, Zaila McCalla, in the Vaz Dabdoub case – to my mind speaks volumes and suggests something wrong is going on. Even though Justice McCalla, found that: in the West Portland Constituency one of the two candidates namely, Mr Daryl Vaz, was [...]
The following was submitted by a reader:
I don’t like your promotion of Anti-Jamaican culture that would seek to introduce homosexuality, one of the most abominable perversions, as the NORM.
I don’t like the general slackness and nastiness of Jamaican people in general, and what disgusts me most is that it is not even [...]