In Focus

RECENTLY, TWO 'Generation X' politicians from the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (Delano Seiveright and Marlon Morgan) entered the debate on renewing the hope in the Jamaican economy. Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller raised this issue in her speech to the public session of the People's National Party's 72nd annual conference.

Member State representatives of the Organization of American States (OAS) and experts on the subject of human rights and older persons met on Thursday (October 28) at Organization headquarters in Washington, DC, to discuss the feasibility of creating a convention that protects and further promotes the rights of older persons.

THERE IS a lot for Jamaicans to contemplate these days: the economy and the ever-rising cost of living; the spin-doctor's story; the indiscipline which envelopes our social interaction; the disdain we display regarding the principles of the hallowed conventions that make for the ordered society; and the severe physical challenges to everyday living...

A Carl Stone poll of May, 1990 showed that two union men were thought by Jamaicans to be the best persons in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to replace Edward Seaga.

The following article was submitted by the Public Theology Forum, an ecumenical group of Christian ministers and theologians.

Barbados has done it again. Our little CARICOM sister has set an example of civilised behaviour, this time in a transition of political leadership.

The People's National Party's young professional group, the Patriots, hailed it as a victory for civil society, the People's National Party (PNP) and the Jamaican people in general. The PNP Youth Organisation (PNPYO) begged to differ: They saw it as a clever diversionary tactic, a smoke-and-mirrors game.

Based upon most of what we have read and heard from the Caribbean academic community, political and business leaders and journalists on the subject of economic globalisation ...

President Piñera of Chile advised the world at the end of the rescue mission to bring the trapped miners to the surface: "We faced this united." That was the platform on which the success of that near miraculous operation was erected.

Ministry Paper 78, for the 2010 calendar year, which has been tabled in the House of Representatives, revealed that the four regional health authorities (RHAs) were among 134 government agencies which have never submitted reports for tabling in Parliament.

United States (US) federal prosecutors have done their best to hang Buju Banton out to dry, only to succeed in hanging the jury instead. Interested onlookers should get a grasp of one abiding legal principle in order to understand fully what's happened at this farce of a trial. The fundamental forensic tenet applicable here is a trite rule laid down from Blackstone's time: "Mout' mek fi chat!"

In september 2007, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) triumphed in a contested general-election victory for the first time since 1980, and tasted real political power for the first time since 1989. You would think that droughts of such durations would make Labourites wary of falling into the same traps that kept them so long in the wilderness. But recent events make you wonder.