By now, Andrew Holness should have taken full measure of the team he will have in Gordon House and be well on his way to crafting his Cabinet. He has no time to dawdle for the Government he will lead, after the Jamaica Labour Party's victory in last...
On Sunday, September 16, 2007, I watched an angry Portia Simpson Miller expressing suspicion at the just-concluded general election she lost to the Bruce Golding-led Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). She promised, among other things, to be the new...
The people have spoken and there's a new sheriff in town. Congratulations to the prime minister-designate Andrew Holness, his wife, Juliet, and the Jamaica Labour Party.I respect the fact that he respectfully acknowledged that this victoryis not the...
The 17th election since universal adult suffrage is over and the Jamaican people have returned the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to government. Congratulations to them as we embark on a new course.A number of things must obviously change, as we will...
Published:Friday | February 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMWarren Hall
THE EDITOR, Sir:Jamaicans have spoken at the polls, and I feel that it is a new day for politics in Jamaica.It is the dawn of the 'articulate minority' that have got up off the fence and made their collective voices heard.Social media was the...
There ought to be limits to praise. For the top brass of the People's National Party (PNP), the work of the security forces, including their performance in the recently ended political campaign, deserves high commendation. Party President Portia...
Published:Friday | February 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMTony Deyal
I thought my daughter asked me, "Dad, have you seen Monsters Ink?" But even if this was not exactly what she wanted to know, I behaved as though it was. "Yes, of course," I replied."It is invisible but ... it is green." "How can it be green and...
In the aftermath of the West Indies win in the ICC Under-19 tournament, Ian Bishop made the following statement, "That's not the ideal preparation ... ." In the heady excitement of victory, there have been those that have had a problem with Bishop's...
With election day gone, Jamaica needs a government ready to cater to the various needs of the country. Our new government should understand that the people's selection is a privilege, not a right.Thus our wish for Jamaica is really quite simple:1...
Having won the Government in yesterday’s general election, Andrew Holness’ Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration has a tough, unenviable balancing act to accomplish. They have to deliver on their substantial, and potentially...
If Jamaica learnt nothing else from the political campaign, it is that there is unfinished business to be attended to with regard to electoral reform and our general approach to governance. Much time has been spent in recent decades attempting to...
Published:Thursday | February 25, 2016 | 12:00 AMKemesha Kelly
So, February 25 has come and gone, and many young people are perhaps relieved that the election is over. We have now given a new mandate to a new government for the continued development and growth of this great nation. I spend much time in the...
Published:Thursday | February 25, 2016 | 12:00 AMMichael Abrahams
The clock has called time on election day, and I must say that I am grateful, not for the next term of governance by the victorious party, but for the end of the lunacy, at least for now. This has got to have been one of the most interesting,...
Published:Friday | February 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Wright
All over Jamaica right now, John Crows are camping out at gullies, valleys, cities, and villages, picking away at the carcasses of People's National Party candidates. At least Audley Shaw fulfilled the first promise of his political campaign, and...
My Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) friends told me it would happen, and although I listened to them and even agreed that it had more than a possibility of happening, inside me, I was saying there was little chance of a JLP victory....
Well, the People's National Party (PNP) gambled and lost. A month ago, I pointed out in this column that a four-percentage-point difference between the PNP and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), in a poll with a margin of error of three percentage...
It was declared a battleground seat and there were times on the campaign trail when she looked like a general. As she quipped in an interview this week on 'Cliff Hughes On-Line' in reference to her opponent, former beauty queen Imani Duncan-Price, "...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM
This once great nation of hope and prosperity is being reduced to nothing but a wasteland of commercial slavery, joblessness, and frustration. The Jamaican political structure has remained true and loyal to the mould from which it was fashioned.It...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM
Today is another important and critical day in our history as a 54-year-old independent country; it's our 11th general election and one hopes that at the end of the day, we would have done more than just vote or ventilate about the country's state...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM
Recently, a minister of religion, at the People's National Party (PNP) Half-Way Tree mass rally, endorsed the PNP for government and, prior to that, another minister of religion at a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) mass rally in St Catherine prayed that...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM
Today, nearly two millions Jamaicans can cast ballots for the government of their choice. Whether or not people choose to exercise this right, it is a guarantee they ought to cherish and protect. For this right to vote is a critical pillar of...
This newspaper is not surprised at the conclusion by the head of the Organization of American States’ observer mission of the preparedness of Jamaica’s election machinery to manage national polls and the continuing efforts to improve...
We regret last week's death of Dr Suzanna Roye from complications related to the H1N1 (swine flu) virus, but warn against the politicisation of the issue lest it undermine efforts to manage the virus in Jamaica.With regard to this issue, it is...
On Monday's 7 o'clock TVJ newscast, between the opening montage and the actual reading of the first bit of news, the PNP had four ads and the JLP had not a single one.I cannot open anything on YouTube without seeing a PNP ad popping up. This begs...
My column of Friday, February 19, 2016 incurred the wrath of a few people, including a close family member. "How could you ever write something like that in the week of an election?" And an extraordinarily perceptive reader emailed me to say that...
