It has been announced that there is an IMF team in Jamaica. The purpose of the mission, we are told, is to complete the outstanding quarterly reviews for December 2010 and March 2011, and to chart the boundaries of a redesigned IMF programme.
Governments globally are faced with the challenging task of deciding on the energy source or mix of sources on which their strong economic pillars can be built. In making this decision, the sources decided on need to be affordable and in sustainable quantities so as to ensure energy security.
There is a school of thought that Prime Minister Bruce Golding has been handed his political fortunes on a platter, and there is another that his propensity to flee for cover when things go wrong has kept him afloat in the political pond.
Political parties are strange things. They are populated by power-driven, egotistic people who are enemies who, in the pursuit of their ambitions, have agreed to be friends in order to defeat some bigger enemy (the other party) in the fight for state power. And they are dangerous things. The internal and cross-party competition for power can sacrifice the larger public interest.
In reshuffling and naming 17 persons to his Cabinet, Prime Minister Golding may seem extravagant to some. However, he falls short of the record for large Cabinets. The People's National Party still holds the record of 20, which was set in 1977 by the then-revered Prime Minister Michael Manley.
At the end of the week, radioactivity from Britain's nuclear-level press scandal, which had already resulted in the shutdown of the 168-year-old News of the World newspaper, had spread to the United States where media mogul and sensation-monger Rupert Murdoch's Fox News network has considerable sway.
Most people will have little difficulty in perceiving crime as a key variable in determining outcomes of businesses and industries, one way or the other. The challenge to decision-makers, though, is to move beyond estimates and provide empirical data that seek to validate this perception.
Dr Andrew Wheatley was selected as the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) candidate for the newly created South Central St Catherine constituency last Sunday. The constituency is new, but early signs suggest that his politics might not be. TVJ's 'First News' the next morning showed him celebrating his selection by rallying "Shower Labourites".
Despite several columns describing inadequacies of the Westminster system of government and how to interpret Westminster-style election results, the People's National Party (PNP) sycophants are still having trouble with the results of the last general election.
The recent decision by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) that the attorney general of Belize is competent to bring an action in the tort of misfeasance on behalf of the Crown against two former government ministers has once again reignited the debate...
The people of Singapore re-elected the ruling People's Action Party (PAP), handing it an 11th consecutive term in office. Lee Hsien Loon, the son of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, continues into his seventh year in office as prime minister, unimpeded.
A recent Gleaner-Bill Johnson poll noted the current administration is doing very well in education. The very humble minister, Andrew Holness gave credit to the former portfolio minister, Maxine Henry-Wilson, for the foundation laid from the Task Force Report on Education 2004.
When I first heard of "the suggestion" made by officials of the Jamaican Government to rename the Boscobel airport in St Mary, the Ian Fleming International Airport, in honour of British author and creator of James Bond, the cinematic British espionage...
Our best batsman, Chris Gayle, sat in the stands as the West Indies team struggled and was eventually beaten in the first Test by a second-string Indian team.
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has a published code of conduct, and the players, in their contracts with the board, acknowledge and accept this code and are bound by it. By implication, the employees and board members are expected, too, to observe it at all times.
In The Gleaner of Monday, May 13, The Gavel advocated that the composition of the Electoral Commission should be revamped to exclude the commissioners nominated by the prime minister and the leader of the Opposition.
It's hard to resist devoting a column to the alleged Peter Phillips WikiLeaks bombshell about Comrade Leader Portia Simpson Miller's being a "disaster" and the distastefulness of serving under her, as well as the 'JLP bounces back' Gleaner headline of last Thursday...
The Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA), led by my good friend Lyndel 'Mud' Wright, committed a grave error of judgement when it decided to name the players' pavilion at Sabina Park in honour of Lawrence Rowe.
A recycled minister and a number of others were sworn in last Wednesday as the prime minister reshuffled his Cabinet.The new ministers and ministers of state took the oath of office: "I … do swear that I will … freely give my counsel and...
I recently had a talk with Marie Sparkes, director of Pure Potential LLC Jamaica, whose company has been strategically getting our Jamaican society at all levels to deal more seriously with...
Three blind mice, three blind mice,See how they run, see how they run,They all ran after the farmer's wife,Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,Did you ever see such a thing in your life,As three blind mice?It is not to be believed that...
This is a response from Paula V. Llewellyn, QC, director of public prosecutions, to the Gleaner editorial of June 15, titled 'The DPP and Fighting Corruption', and The Gleaner editorial of June 17, 'The DPP in an age of transparency'.
