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National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang needs to be more explicit about the targeted approaches which he says Government is using to tackle the illicit trade in illegal firearms and drugs. Dr Chang cited as evidence of a more robust approach to...
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The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is in its big week heading towards a Guyana vs Trinidad game that will determine whether it is a victory for ‘chicken curry’ or ‘curry chicken’. Or neither if, as my Jamaican friends believe, the game will go to...
Recent findings by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) ring alarm bells for the global community: democratic governance is under threat, with an increasing number of people subjected to authoritarian regimes...
Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert ultimately did the right thing by stepping down as Speaker of the House. She has also decided to leave Parliament. But it needed such public outcry. Having been warned for prosecution by the Integrity Commission (IC) for...
Church-State relations in Jamaica are headed down a rocky road. And it would not be the first time. In the days of slavery the plantocrats in the Jamaica House of Assembly required ministers of religion to obtain licences to preach, or face jail...
Once upon a time, Jamaica had a ‘Commission for the Prevention of Corruption’, and presumably, its job was to help prevent corruption. One of the core activities of the commission was to collect statutory declarations from public officials and...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness promised in August that Jamaica’s municipal elections won’t be postponed for a third time, beyond next February. “The Government intends to fulfil the constitutional requirements and the Constitution as it relates to...
THERE’S NOT much that I can add to the abundant praises, accolades and superlatives being offered to my fellow JC old boy, the Hon R. ‘Danny’ Williams, who left us last week. I did not know Danny during his Life of Jamaica years, nor when he served...
MAYBE IF the lenses are shifted and the views recast, the powers that be will see Jamaican teachers for who they truly are – drivers of economic development and national progress. It is disheartening that teachers’ compensation in this country...
The People’s National Party (PNP) and its leader, Mark Golding, may finally have appreciated that the best path for returning to government isn’t to hope that the current one implodes, or merely rant about its failures and mistakes – real or...
We are at the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly which actually began on September 5. The president of this session is Ambassador Dennis Francis, Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago. As preparations continued for the high-level...
“The JDF assisted in national water-supply development projects in Jamaica from 1983-85 with the construction of a major water pipeline from Yallahs … to the Mona Reservoir in St Andrew” – JDF historical accomplishments Crime and violence in...
While he may indeed have been rebutting domestic critics of Jamaica’s economic relationship with China, Prime Minister Andrew Holness was likely to have also been addressing the United States. It was a measured affirmation of the island’s right...
It’s been a minute since we spent quality time in Apocrypha, our favourite fantasyland where all politicians are friends and Oma D’unn solves political problems by parable. Apocrypha’s Finance Minister Highyell Cluck was beside himself with...
The Jamaica Red Poll Cattle breed is a successful joint product of the public and private sectors of Jamaica, with the public sector having contributed through a critical mass of professional and technical personnel, as well as policy directives,...
As Prime Minister Andrew Holness said, good roads, such as the 23-kilometre addition of the tolled east-west corridor of Highway 2000 that was opened last week, are important to the country’s economic growth and development. “Good infrastructure...
