Showing posts with label Jamaican politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jamaican politics. Show all posts
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Hypocrisy to the nth degree!

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  When I heard the hullabaloo coming out of the Peoples National Party (PNP), private sector and a few other hypocritical mouths, because MP...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Rehashing the past?

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When I saw the headline in  The Gleaner  dated February 7, 2015 declaring, 'Take over idle lands - 'Hugo' Buchanan', I...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Give More to Political Parties? Absolutely Not!

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I am absolutely amazed, for despite several senators grandstanding and  claiming they object to  the taxpayers funding political p...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Unconscionable Politicians

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It is bad enough that in the midst of a debt crisis when the government has insisted that they have no money to help the poor and disposses...
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Saturday, May 31, 2014

DUTTY LABOUITES

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It was many, many, many, many decades ago, while growing up in a predominantly PNP environment, that I first heard the term " Dutty...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Corruption Lessons

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According to the Economist magazine, Nigeria  with a GDP of $509 billion is now has the largest  economy in Africa, passing South Africa ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Bias versus Coldbloodedness

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It is absolutely amazing how the Member of Parliament for western Kingston, Desmond Mckenzie  can be accusing Velma Hyton , former Counse...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

SLOW PACE OF CHANGE

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One of the most wasteful and stupid practices of successive Jamaican governments is to e stablish a new agency to deal with every new prob...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Deflecting the Blame

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If ever there was a puny, sick, hypocritical attempt to deflect the blame for the appalling crime situation in Jamaica from the politician...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

A Kleptocracy Indeed

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For some years now, some perceptive Jamaicans had been warning that Jamaica could one day become an official kleptocracy , which is d...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Jamaica and Caricom

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I am convinced that if Jamaicans had not threatened to boycott goods coming from Trinidad , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs w ould have rem...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Leadership Crisis

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Jamaica has a serious leadership crisis which does not bode well for the future of this beleaguered country at all. Things  have been mad...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

I Plead Insanity!

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I plead insanity for having believed the hype on Sunday last that despite the bruising leadership challenge to Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) ...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Looking into the future

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On Sunday, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) pleasantly surprised the Jamaican people by having a peaceful and apparently fair election. Surpr...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

The JLP Leadership Race

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In another few days we will know who will lead the  once alternative governmen t (the JLP) to most likely, another  defeat, in the next ele...
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Monday, November 4, 2013

Backward Constitutional Requirement

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On reading an  article in the Jamaica Observer today that Jamaican born Mark Escoffery-Be y  is vying to become president of the Bronx bor...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Young People Leading By Example

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I get such a warm feeling every time I see some young successful Jamaican putting things in place to help the less fortunate. If only some ...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

The Realities of the garrison

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I had difficulty deciding whether to laugh or cry  on hearing the prime  minister,  in defending the revived  Innercity housing programme,...
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Jamaica and Caricom

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This absolutely beautiful country of mine, Jamaica is a big joke! We are rightly fully rated among the happiest people in the world for...
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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Poor Management, No Sanctions

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One of the reasons why  Jamaica  has become one of  the ( if not the most ) most indebted countries in the world is because there are abso...