Commentary

During the last five years, the Organisation of American States (OAS) has observed elections in no fewer than 10 of its Caribbean member states.

'It' looks really bad for any leader of any country to risk everything (his/her integrity, political career, the security of its citizens and international sanctions) for the sake of any one individual.

IN A hitherto little-noticed discussion document, on which this newspaper reported last week, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) suggested that following last February's restructuring of more than J$700 billion of domestic debt, Jamaica...

Last Sunday's 'revelation' that the Government did, in fact, authorise the hiring of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to act on its behalf is no surprise to anyone who understands the basic principle on which fictional stories are constructed.

Elsewhere in this edition of The Sunday Gleaner, several questions, including many from readers, are posed to the Golding administration regarding the relationship between the Government and the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the terms of their relationship with the United States law firm/lobbyists, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.

Andrew Holness in his capacity as the minister of education announced at Wednesday's post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House that "the Government would no longer subsidise students sitting mathematics, English language, information technology and a science subject in Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC), Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and Caribbean Certificate of Secondary Level Competence on a broad scale".

Government spokesman Daryl Vaz has acknowledged that the handling of the Manatt affair was a mess from the start. What he has not said explicitly, or perhaps not appreciated, is that from the start it was a misconception for Prime Minister Bruce Golding to even believe that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) could have retained this law firm on a treaty matter...

I have often said that if I were a United States (US) citizen, I don't know how I would have voted in the last US presidential election. It's all because of my sensitive conscience: how do I choose between the war-mongering Republicans...

Governments across the world are waking up to a new wave of social entrepreneurship knocking on their doors.

On Sunday, August 15, I preached that Jamaica needed to add righteousness to its school programme as an integral component of the educational enterprise.

The following is a statement issued by the People's National Party (PNP) on the Manatt affair. The Executive Committee and the Officer Corps of the People's National Party at meetings held on Monday, August 23, having engaged in a careful consideration...

Congratulations to The Gleaner for its excellent investigative journalism, resulting in Sunday's front page exposé. However, nothing published there brings any new perspective to the Manatt...