Prime Minister Bruce Golding has signalled that he will step down "in a matter of days" rather than weeks, as he had originally planned. He should. Indeed, the prime minister anticipated, by a day, the recommendation of this newspaper...
Having fought your way through the stubborn argot of the bureaucrats, the message from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bureaucrats quoted by this newspaper last week is clear: Jamaica's standby agreement with the fund is severely stressed and will...
Andrew Holness, the prime minister-designate, is, undoubtedly, the greatest prime minister Jamaica has ever known - simply because he has not yet assumed office and has had no opportunity to do us harm...
The silly season is well and truly upon us, and persons who live by the political calendar know that this period will soon give way to another season - the election itself...
Jamaica continues to pay lip service only to comprehensive tax reform without which, I believe, economically speaking, we'll be running around in ever-decreasing circles until we disappear up our national behinds....
In the mountain of words on Steve Jobs, who died last week at 56, few of them, noticeably, pointed to primary inventions by the Apple chairman.But there was unanimity in the fact that Jobs was a genius who, as The Associated Press put it, "turned...
I am curious about the new state of affairs since the United States repealed the 1993 'don't ask, don't tell' law. Admitted homosexuals could find themselves in a domiciliary conundrum. If, say, a male in the armed forces, living among other male...
Gone at 56 years old, Steve Jobs, the Apple CEO who managed to release the iPad 2 and iPhone 4 before his passing, has left behind the map to a journey that is worth retracing...
"We don't want to replace the government, but to do more than that. We want to change the rules of the game." This statement captures the mood among protesters in the spontaneous demonstrations that have erupted in New York, and now reached Washington...
The trend, globally, is for citizens to demand greater public accountability from their political representatives and officials who operate on their behalf. Jamaica is no exception, on the unassailable assumption that transparency is a powerful incentive...
As even the most cursory watcher of Jamaican affairs will be aware, becoming leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the country's prime minister will be the easy part of Andrew Holness' ascendancy. The real, and difficult, job will be running the country - either in the near term, or after a general election...
Americans are just now beginning to mount protests against the excesses of the Wall Street barons that brought their financial system to the brink and sent the economy into a deep hole.
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) seems to be really going green and taking a firm stand on environmental issues. Minister of Housing and Water Dr Horace Chang, who has oversight responsibility for environmental issues, recently admitted that a lot of 'development' in the Corporate Area is downright dangerous.
Rather than causing his party to sink electorally, Prime Minister Bruce Golding is jumping ship, with the Manatt-Coke monkey on his back. He hopes the captain-in-waiting, Andrew Holness - with less political baggage - will be able to steer the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) into safe harbour at the next general election.
Mr Bruce Golding has indicated his intention to step down as leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and prime minister of Jamaica. In his speech to the nation last Sunday night, he sought to make a virtue out of what was an obvious necessity.
The proposal by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica that Government apply a flat tax rate to persons who operate in the expanding informal sector has some merit, and we regret that it was given...
THE EDITOR, Sir:I have noted with a mix of irony and disgust the People's National Party (PNP) and the eagerness of its youth arm to mobilise public opposition to the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS).
It is the habit of our politics to elevate its former partisans to high state where they are expected to stand above the factional fray as representatives of the national whole.Usually, those who do best in their new assignments are those whose...
I write this column from Paraguay, in South America.No, I am not here bird-shooting; I am attending a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank, where I will give a presentation.
The time has come for someone to highlight what must be the biggest anomaly in contemporary Jamaican cricket. For the last three years, Manchester have been the best cricket team in the country...
Now that Ms Audrey Hinchcliffe's appointment has excited Jamaican attention, we will in time learn how Hillary Clinton's International Council on Women's Business Leadership (ICWBL) actually impacts America's global trade diplomacy as associated...
LAST WEEK, Terrence Williams, commissioner of INDECOM, lamented the poor accountability of security forces. Indeed, the commissioner of police could improve on accountability.
