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Father of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Alexander Bustamante, was a founding member of the People's National Party (PNP). JLP stalwart Olivia 'Babsy' Grange is a cousin of Delano Franklyn, the campaign strategist for the...

Months before the December 20, 1949 general election, only the second since universal adult suffrage in 1944, the leader of the JLP, Alexander Bustamante, and the leader of the PNP, Norman Manley, signed a peace pledge on behalf of their parties....

We have, over the last few weeks, been observing several discussions in the print and electronic media on the issue of youth vote. This prompted us to share with Jamaica research that we have been doing at the Department of Government, UWI, since...

And the Lord Jesus said, " Thou shalt not mark thine X beside the bell or the head. Choose ye not the Comrades by day or the labourites by night."

Of course, there is no such verse in the Bible, but you would be surprised how many ignoramus pastors and St Peter wannabes go to pulpits and platforms and make convincing statements, simply by preaching in an ancient language, which, interestingly...

By 2007, Jamaicans were sick and tired of Omar Davies as minister of finance.His extended tenure as Jamaica's CFO was littered with missteps, mistakes and policy flaws. His introduction of high interest rates as a disincentive to foreign-exchange...

I got my news of the election date in morning newscasts and online the day after. What would I be doing in bed with the election date late at night, when there are more important domestic matters to attend to?Media asked me to comment on the content...

Emancipation in 1838 brought freedom to the 300,000 slave population of Jamaica. But it also brought high unemployment on a very broad scale. This forced many of the slaves to enter into arrangements with their slave masters.The arrangements...

Oil prices have been falling for the past 19 months - from US$108 per barrel in June 2014 to less than US$27 a few days ago before recovering to US$35 at the time of writing, still lower than anything we have seen in more than a decade and the...

The world is going to pot.Unfortunately, it's not my fat pot. Also, no, this isn't an anti-ganja tirade. I'm just saying 'progress' is overrated.Take electricity, for example. Some fella named Edison (more like Meddlesome to me) is accused of...

The award could not have come at a better time. When the trumpet sounds tonight in Half-Way Tree for the pre-Easter general election, the PNP campaign director is Gleaner Man of the Year Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips.The touch of the Master on...

The Ministry of Health’s (MOH) most recent attempt at obfuscation has me thinking (always dangerous). MOH wants three million Jamaicans to help combat the Zika virus (ZIKV) by postponing all pregnancies for one year for fear babies might...

After reading, among other books, Sir Hilary Beckles' Britain's Black Debt, I decided to do some research of my own. My focus would be on what happened to the profit that those who benefited from slavery and sugar. Starting with English Heritage's...