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Betrayed - Politicians fail people again

Those who say the recently ended state of emergency (SOE) served no real purpose must place little value on human life. From January 1 to May 31, Jamaica experienced 737 murders, or 4.8 per day. Between June 1 and July 19 there were 137 murders, or 2.8 per day. That is an over 40 per cent drop.

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Baugh, humbug? And a dead state of emergency

When both this column and I were considerably younger, a certain minister of health tracked me on the telephone to my desk at work. I had written a piece, 'A long night at the hospital', bitterly complaining about the long wait and shabby treatment experienced at a public hospital to which I had taken a relative for 'emergency' treatment.

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PNP is not the problem

I told you not to write off Bruce Golding. And that a day was a long time in politics. After being on an incredible roll for months, courtesy of the Bruce Golding administration's handling of the Dudus extradition and Manatt, Phelps and Phillips issues, the People's National Party had an emergency hijack last week...

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Jamaica and the 'new normal'(Part 1)

The following is an excerpt from a speech delivered by Claude Clarke at the National Commercial Bank's 2010 Strategic Retreat put on by its Group Human Resources Division on July 17.

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Separation of powers ... against corruption

Presidential systems, say of the United States, employ separation of powers between the executive and legislature. Neither the executive nor the legislature can dissolve the other. In contrast, parliamentary systems, like ours, are based on a fusion of powers. The executive is a committee of the legislature. Each can dissolve the other.

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No compromise, no half-loaf

The question that the front-runners in the harsh, sometimes vulgar and uncompromising criticism levelled at the Opposition for withholding its support for the resolution to have the period of public emergency extended for a further one month have deliberately chosen not to address is: Why did the Government downright refuse to accept the 15-day extension proposal?