Jamaican Opinions and Commentary
EDITORIAL - Fair warning from America
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If nothing else, the Christopher Coke affair should have taught Prime Minister Bruce Golding and his administration that the Jamaican people are in no mood to tolerate the protection, perceived or actual, of alleged criminals by politicians....
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Can we recapture the spirit of '62? ()
The weeklong Independence celebrations of 1962 culminated with the opening of the IX Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC) at the National Stadium on Saturday, August 11. The stadium had already hosted its first-ever...
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Get out of the way, Greg! ()
The Editor, Sir: Bravo to the Office of the Contractor General for attempting to safeguard public assets, which might be frittered away through a corrupt contracting process.
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A 'special' sport? ()
Last weekend, Jamaica won the silver medal in the CAC Games rugby competition. There will not be a fanfare over this, as rugby is not a very popular sport in Jamaica...
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If nothing else, the Christopher Coke affair should have taught Prime Minister Bruce Golding and his administration that the Jamaican people are in no mood to tolerate the protection, perceived or actual, of alleged criminals by politicians....
>> read more
Can we recapture the spirit of '62? ()
The weeklong Independence celebrations of 1962 culminated with the opening of the IX Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC) at the National Stadium on Saturday, August 11. The stadium had already hosted its first-ever...
>> read more
Get out of the way, Greg! ()
The Editor, Sir: Bravo to the Office of the Contractor General for attempting to safeguard public assets, which might be frittered away through a corrupt contracting process.
>> read more
A 'special' sport? ()
Last weekend, Jamaica won the silver medal in the CAC Games rugby competition. There will not be a fanfare over this, as rugby is not a very popular sport in Jamaica...
>> read more
Betrayed - Politicians fail people again
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Those who say the recently ended state of emergency (SOE) served no real purpose must place little value on human life. From January 1 to May 31, Jamaica experienced 737 murders, or 4.8 per day. Between June 1 and July 19 there were 137 murders, or 2.8 per day. That is an over 40 per cent drop.
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Baugh, humbug? And a dead state of emergency ()
When both this column and I were considerably younger, a certain minister of health tracked me on the telephone to my desk at work. I had written a piece, 'A long night at the hospital', bitterly complaining about the long wait and shabby treatment experienced at a public hospital to which I had taken a relative for 'emergency' treatment.
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PNP is not the problem ()
I told you not to write off Bruce Golding. And that a day was a long time in politics. After being on an incredible roll for months, courtesy of the Bruce Golding administration's handling of the Dudus extradition and Manatt, Phelps and Phillips issues, the People's National Party had an emergency hijack last week...
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Jamaica and the 'new normal'(Part 1) ()
The following is an excerpt from a speech delivered by Claude Clarke at the National Commercial Bank's 2010 Strategic Retreat put on by its Group Human Resources Division on July 17.
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Separation of powers ... against corruption ()
Presidential systems, say of the United States, employ separation of powers between the executive and legislature. Neither the executive nor the legislature can dissolve the other. In contrast, parliamentary systems, like ours, are based on a fusion of powers. The executive is a committee of the legislature. Each can dissolve the other.
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No compromise, no half-loaf ()
The question that the front-runners in the harsh, sometimes vulgar and uncompromising criticism levelled at the Opposition for withholding its support for the resolution to have the period of public emergency extended for a further one month have deliberately chosen not to address is: Why did the Government downright refuse to accept the 15-day extension proposal?
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Those who say the recently ended state of emergency (SOE) served no real purpose must place little value on human life. From January 1 to May 31, Jamaica experienced 737 murders, or 4.8 per day. Between June 1 and July 19 there were 137 murders, or 2.8 per day. That is an over 40 per cent drop.
>> read more
Baugh, humbug? And a dead state of emergency ()
When both this column and I were considerably younger, a certain minister of health tracked me on the telephone to my desk at work. I had written a piece, 'A long night at the hospital', bitterly complaining about the long wait and shabby treatment experienced at a public hospital to which I had taken a relative for 'emergency' treatment.
>> read more
PNP is not the problem ()
I told you not to write off Bruce Golding. And that a day was a long time in politics. After being on an incredible roll for months, courtesy of the Bruce Golding administration's handling of the Dudus extradition and Manatt, Phelps and Phillips issues, the People's National Party had an emergency hijack last week...
>> read more
Jamaica and the 'new normal'(Part 1) ()
The following is an excerpt from a speech delivered by Claude Clarke at the National Commercial Bank's 2010 Strategic Retreat put on by its Group Human Resources Division on July 17.
>> read more
Separation of powers ... against corruption ()
Presidential systems, say of the United States, employ separation of powers between the executive and legislature. Neither the executive nor the legislature can dissolve the other. In contrast, parliamentary systems, like ours, are based on a fusion of powers. The executive is a committee of the legislature. Each can dissolve the other.
>> read more
No compromise, no half-loaf ()
The question that the front-runners in the harsh, sometimes vulgar and uncompromising criticism levelled at the Opposition for withholding its support for the resolution to have the period of public emergency extended for a further one month have deliberately chosen not to address is: Why did the Government downright refuse to accept the 15-day extension proposal?
>> read more
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