In Focus

Based on the unusually large number of responses to my last column on whether Jamaica is a failed state (65 at last count and climbing), I can assert confidently that Jamaicans feel passionately about their country. And it seems they are largely pissed about its direction, as the Bill Johnson polls have confirmed.

I want to introduce the People's National Party (PNP) to a man named Michael Manley, who, in 1972, led the party to a resounding victory. Not to be confused with his Fabian socialist father, Norman, or his sociologist brother, Douglas, this firebrand charismatic spoke with clarity and fluency but spewed a doctrine of people love.

Mathematics is not a popular subject in Jamaica. Unfortunately so because math is the central source of much of the information that guides our lives and makes critical national decisions.

Everyone who reads your paper knows that Ian Boyne reads a lot. In his column in this paper on Sunday, November 9, 2014, he made an apparent off-hand comment which disclosed that he sometimes does not read as thoroughly as he should before going public.

The Gleaner reported on October 6, 2014 that a whopping 91 per cent of Jamaicans support preserving the buggery law.

Below is a statement from the Jamaica Maunufacturers' Association released on November 6.

Democrats took a beating in last week's US elections.