The recent Bill Johnson polls conducted for The Gleaner Company had headlines screaming 'JLP leads as PNP's problems mount', 'Jamaica's PM Portia Simpson Miller's popularity plummets', 'Jamaicans split on IMF deal', and 'Government flops: ...
The vagaries that usually attend surveys on perceptions of individuals were very much present in the findings of the Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson polls, the last of which were published today.
Ask the People's National Party (PNP)! Seriously, I am not making fun of the utterances by the Comrade leader almost eight years ago. I literally want you to ask the ruling party what it has done to give flesh to its tag line about 'putting people first'.
Despite the many attempts on his life, it was a heart attack which got the better of Jean-Claude Duvalier on the morning of October 4. Controversy raged over his funeral arrangements.
It is May 1938. The headlines on the front page of The Daily Gleaner of May 3 screamed, '4 dead! 9 in hospital!! 89 in jail!!! Police forced to shoot down rioters in Westmoreland. Dollar-a-day demand ends in death!'
Senator Imani Duncan Price recently argued in Parliament for a closer-to-equal gender mix in representational politics. She felt that this could be achieved with the introduction of a quota-based system to ensure that not more than 60 per cent, nor less than 40 per cent, of any one gender is allowed to sit in Gordon House at any given time.
