In Focus

The editorials in The Gleaner and the Observer last Thursday represented the two differing and dominant perspectives on the issues facing the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) following the re-election of Andrew Holness as leader last Sunday.

Over the past few years, I've taken up watching NFL games with my hubby.

By three o'clock this afternoon, we will know who around 5,100 Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) delegates have chosen to try and beat Portia Simpson Miller and the People's National Party (PNP) in the next general election.

By the time you are boiling down the coconut milk and the national Sunday dish of chicken and rice and peas, the dinner menu will be full of greens and two men would have taken off their sweatsuits, tucked in the belly, turned up the nose, faced the...

Jamaica having achieved an average of 0.8 per cent economic growth over the last 50 years is, by any standard, an unimpressive record, especially for an economy with the vast potential to integrate with the global commercial system.

If Michael Manley were alive, he probably would be ill again because of the debacle with security workers in this country. Worse, he would be terribly upset that the National Housing Trust (NHT) has not provided as many housing solutions as he wished, and that there are persons who are dishonestly failing to remit monies owed to it, on the pretext that their employees are not workers.

Sunday Gleaner columnist Ronald Mason recently made a proposal that "forced sterilisation is a last resort" - that is, if nothing else works in dealing with the recent upswing in violent crime. Robbery appears to be growing brazenly. Downtown, uptown, and the rural areas are feeling this onslaught.

At last. I can die happy. What, you ask, has brought about this eternal peace of mind? Elementary, my Dear Watson, I've discovered that Diana McCaulay reads (well, used to read before she found me out) my columns.

From the late 'Foggy' Mullings' old ultra-safe seat of South East St Ann, Lisa Hanna, as minister of culture, is imploring us to use the memory of our National Heroes as a rallying point to build a better nation in the 21st century.

It is highly likely Spain will be suing Jamaica for reparations.

Currency devaluation is often championed as an acceptable means of promoting export competitiveness, as though such a policy move will secure the benefits for which it is designed without any countervailing action by policymakers in the targeted export market, or by countries competing in the targeted export market.

Nobody knows for sure how the 5,050 delegates of the two Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) camps have signed off on last week will vote, but it seems clear to me that the momentum is with the Audley Shaw's camp.