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Horace Levy | Are we serious about transformation?

Published:Monday | March 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMHorace Levy

I am tired, tired, bored to turn-off by the tit-for-tat talk between the Labour Party and the People's National Party, the "I did this where you didn't", "You failed where I succeeded", the tiresome going back over the last 50 years.Audley Shaw did...

Horace Levy | Getting special-ops zones to work

Published:Monday | July 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMHorace Levy

Clear, hold, build. This is the declared path of the Zones of Special Operations (ZOSO) strategists. According to the Submission to the joint select committee of Parliament by the Office of the National Security Adviser, it's what was done in 2003...

Horace Levy: Murder: Where do we go from here?

Published:Monday | April 25, 2016 | 12:00 AMHorace Levy

We are all appalled at the continued high level of murders, and various solutions are put forward, especially putting more police on the streets and bringing in the guns. But the murders keep on happening. So let us note the following facts and...

College for politicians not a bad idea

Published:Friday | December 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMHorace Levy, Contributor

In his article of November 30, Andre Poyser makes a proposal that deserves serious consideration: Establish a National College of Political Leadership to give political mentorship and training to aspiring politicians. A programme along that line...

Social intervention the first answer

Published:Friday | November 6, 2015 | 12:00 AMHorace Levy, Contributor

The statistics on the current murder scene are important, especially along with other data. Even more crucial is the analysis of the stats. And an eye-opener, at least for some people, is the conclusion that follows.The statistics, according to last...

Civil society the new scapegoat

Published:Monday | September 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMHorace Levy, Contributor

Civil-society representatives are being accused of hypocrisy: They defend their donors' desire for privacy, but want donors to political-party campaigns made public. Sauce for the goose must be sauce for the gander, accusers argue. But is there...

Civil-society groups more transparent than you think

Published:Thursday | May 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMHorace Levy

Bruce Golding's article 'Civil society's role in governance' (Sunday Gleaner, May 10, 2015) frames very clearly the participatory paradigm involving civil society that is now replacing the purely representational. Although, as he observes, the...

Seaga wrong on senators’ loyalty

Published:Tuesday | April 7, 2015 | 12:00 AMHorace Levy

In his latest piece (Sunday Gleaner, April 5, 2015), Edward Seaga, former prime minister and leader of the Jamaica Labour Party, claims to see an "utterly dangerous paradox" that is recognised by neither the Constitutional Court nor the Court of...

Government can’t do it alone

Published:Monday | March 30, 2015 | 12:00 AMHorace Levy

On March 16, civil society held a press conference to present its unanimous position on the Riverton fire. To resolve this decades-old problem, it proposed that a committee modelled on the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) and on the...

What outcome can we expect from the enquiry?

Published:Friday | March 20, 2015 | 5:46 PMHorace Levy

Is any good going to come out of the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry? Most people, at this stage - or from before it even started - say 'no'. And truly, the signs, up to now, that we will get the result we want are not strong. Gordon Robinson,...

The Tivoli Gardens Commission of Enquiry: What can we expect

Published:Monday | February 2, 2015 | 2:06 PMHorace Levy

Looking back, Looking forward

Published:Wednesday | January 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMHorace Levy

Chaos in Kingston – Part 3

Mission Misplaced!

Coda II: learning

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