Commentary

Over the last decade, parties in opposition have criticised the party in power for the large size of their Cabinet, and then when the tables are turned, they name an even larger one...

THE DECEMBER 29, 2011 parliamentary general election is now history. Of the 63 seats contested by both major political parties, the People's National Party (PNP) won 42 to the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) 21. It is interesting to note ...

A DISQUIETING trend is set to continue in the Senate with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's decision to appoint a pair of novices to rule over proceedings in that chamber.The prime minister's anointment of two parliamentary neophytes to lead the...

My dear friend Joyce has just returned home after spending Christmas holidays with her son and his family in South Florida. This has become a ritual for many people as their children settle with their spouses in desirable locations around the world...

Should Jamaica's new Parliament find greater energy than the last one, which we hope it does, among the first bills it should pass is the one to regulate political party and election campaign financing. For while Opposition Leader Andrew Holness...

Only the very rich and poor seem able to operate without a cellphone nowadays. So I've determined to put it behind me at the nearest opportunity. Once I ketch de lotto! I've found that like much other technology, the phones only appear to be helping...

This newspaper is shocked that Mr Andrew Holness could vary the terms of the merger of the telecoms Digicel and Claro without telling the Jamaican public...

The need to consider proportional representation as the format for Jamaican elections was never so emphasised as in the recent elections in which the winning party got just under 53 per cent of the votes cast but 66.66 per cent of the seats...

In the last few months, Canadian journalists with long memories have been decrying what they see as an authoritarian tendency in Canada's government....

Dr Peter Phillips, Jamaica’s finance minister, has at least one thing right about his new job: “The tasks and challenges” he faces are enormous. We would add to that the little time he has to demonstrate real achievements if he is to pull the country out of its economic funk and have a real chance of sustained economic growth and job creation.

Andrew Holness found himself with an opportunity to lead Jamaica to economic success and he blew it. His inauguration as prime minister generated an outpouring of hope that he might become a new vessel for change from the failed governance that had for too long brought economic decline and social disorder. But in his short tenure as prime minister, he did not give the many that were anxious to see him succeed a reason to give him a mandate.

Once more we hear an important voice lamenting how the paucity of jurors is hampering the administration of justice in the courts. Mr Justice Horace Marsh has added his voice to the loud chorus calling for more Jamaicans to accept their citizenship responsibility and submit to jury duty when they are summoned.