In Focus

The People's National Party (PNP) is holding its 72nd annual conference this weekend. Its theme is 'restoring the hope'. It will tell us how it intends to do so through its new progressive agenda.

Three recent findings are of great political interest for one reason or another.

It's assessment time again. Yesterday, September 11, marked the end of the third year of this Government in office. Never has any administration in Jamaica been so assessed, much of the assessment lacking in substance and validity.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding is currently under fire with strident calls for his resignation along with those of several of his ministers. The calls come from religious leaders, political opponents, persons in the media as well as local and overseas letter writers.

Louise 'Miss Lou' Bennett is undisputedly the most universally loved personality this nation has ever produced or likely will ever produce, engendering unabashed feelings of pride and affection in Jamaicans of all ages, colours, classes and creeds.

Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett's contribution to the 2010-2011 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives was summed up very well when he stated that in tourism "the only certainty is uncertainty".

There is no doubt in my mind that there are persons desperately engaged in a futile attempt to bring a dead horse to life - that dead horse being the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips issue.Now, despite the Gleaner recently...

Those who are old enough to think back to the criminal-justice system in the early years of Independence would be immediately struck by the considerable increase over recent decades in crime, corruption and injustice. It is unnecessary to quote supporting data for this.

The recent publicity given to the email correspondence involving officers of the Jamaican government, Harold Brady and officials of the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips should make everyone aware that email is an official...

As we approach the fourth year of the life of the present wobbly administration, it is submitted that the times dictate that it is most appropriate that we revisit the justice-reform programme, ...

The Government has fallen into a deep coma and lost all olfactory senses. It can't wake up and smell the coffee.

On August 22, writer Erica Virtue alerted readers to the fact that the old guard (men and women) in both the People's National Party and the Jamaica Labour Party are resisting forced retirement.