The Portia vs Peter contest
The Daryl Vaz ruling, Bruce Golding's insistence that Abe Dabdoub must not sit a day in Parliament by fiat, added to the punishing rise in food and oil prices and the crime surge are primarily responsible for Peter Phillips' decision to challenge Portia Simpson Miller for the leadership of the People's National Party (PNP).
Guided democracy or palace coup?
Ladies and gentlemen! It's the big rematch all Jamaica has been waiting for since March 2006 - the battle for the undisputed leadership of the People's National Party, Round Two! In the St Andrew South West corner wearing yellow, is the defending...
Peter's burden of proof
Since May 2002, there has been a permeating consciousness that leadership changes are imminent within the People's National Party (PNP).
Jamaica's risk society
Anthony Giddens, a British social thinker, has helped to make the idea of the 'risk society' well known. As societies modernise, he says, the very consequences of modernisation increase risks to citizens.
Prospects for a truth commission
The clarion calls for a Jamaican truth commission must not go unheeded for much longer. I fully support a truth commission in Jamaica but with significant caveats. When we talk of a truth commission we need to be clear what it is and what are its expected consequences.
Zimbabweans need hope
Robert Mugabe recently fired a shot at the international community, saying its members "could shout as loud as they like", but that it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to election plans in the country, since it was for the...
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