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It will be very easy to see if Prime Minister Andrew Holness means what he says about taking charge of creating "a new ethos of responsibility in all Jamaicans for Jamaica" [inaugural address].

The Sunday Gleaner of November 13, 2011 carried a story titled 'Scrap it! Braham wants key dual-citizenship provision axed', which reported on comments made by Attorney General Ransford Braham, in his private capacity, at a forum held at the Norman Manley Law School on Wednesday, November 9.

At a recent monthly meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce (MCC), held at the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville, guest speaker Roger Clarke, former minister of agriculture and current opposition spokesman on agriculture, was reported ...

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

It is expected that more than bells will ring today at the 67th annual conference of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) which will, by acclamation, endorse Prime Minister Andrew Holness as the party's anointed leader.

According to the Business Dictionary, 'conflict of interest' arises in a situation that has the potential to undermine the impartiality of a person because of the possibility of a clash between the person's self-interest and professional interest or...

If you want to get your estranged lover to return to you, the best thing to do is to keep secrets from her and refuse to answer the questions she was bugging you about before she left you.

The Observer could hardly contain its glee. Exclaiming 'JLP ahead! Ruling party surges in RJR/TVJ polls', the paper said in its Thursday lead story: "Andrew Holness' ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has nosed ahead of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) in the latest opinion polls, setting off ringing bells and back-slapping among Labourites."

I note that the prime minister has reopened the discussion on reincorporating Jamaicans living in the diaspora into Jamaican economic and political life. I would like to begin by stating that I think that the furore and righteous indignation that surround this dual-citizenship issue are overblown and smack of hypocrisy.

Andrew Holness' potentially historic end-garrison-politics inauguration address has spurred much debate about what a garrison is, which constituencies are garrisons, and even if garrisons exist. Few have referenced probably the most significant document produced on the topic, namely, the 1997 Report of the National Committee on Political Tribalism, often called the Kerr Garrison Report.

The Golden Rule is, I believe, the most essential and fundamental code of guiding human coexistence: Do unto others you would have them do unto you.

When oranges become green and Hay is of the same colour, then is it surprising that the Customs-built seat in the vehicle abandoned by the Driver is not transparent plastic but green fake leather?