Facing the finish line
AS THE four contenders for the presidency of the People's National Party (PNP) enter the home stretch, there are unmistakable indicators as to where they will be at the finish line. It has been a long and strenuous campaign which has taxed to the...
Mother - the new leader
THE MONTH of January 2006, on the cusp of the Year of the Dog, has recorded a few of the greatest and most defining moments in the universal struggle for a woman's right to participate at the highest levels of decision-making in her society.
Political leadership - Pt III - The Prime Minister as CEO
THE PENSIONS provided for Commonwealth Caribbean Prime Ministers may not always prove adequate for everyone concerned and supplementary income by way of large advances of royalties for memoirs to be published are not guaranteed as is usually the case...
Reinventing the Governor-General
MR. P. J. PATTERSON would naturally prefer for a president in republican Jamaica to be sworn in next week rather than a Governor-General in a constitutional monarchy, on the eve of his own departure from office. It might be, however, that Mr. Patterson...
Muslims, Christians and free speech
THE ISLAMIC world has been in rage for the past couple of weeks with a number of people killed and property destroyed, as a result of the publication of 12 cartoons which unfavourably depict Prophet Muhammad and the Islamic religion. A number of...
Empowering the poor
JAMAICA IS in need of a reform agenda which will translate into genuine impact on the lives of the poor an agenda that challenges the status quo, and which does not attempt to protect it and justify it, in areas where it is clearly...
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