Who will it be? - Portia, Pearnel, Peter, Bruce
POLITICAL ANALYSTS are touting Portia Simpson Miller, vice-president of the People's National Party (PNP) and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Chairman Bruce Golding as the likely successors to leadership in the upcoming races for their...
Handicapping the PNP field
WHEN PRIME Minister P.J. Patterson announced prior to the 2002 General Election that the race for the fourth term would signal the beginning of the end of his storied political career, it also brought into focus those who would want to succeed...
Tried, tested and proven
THE ACHIEVEMENTS of Hugh Lawson Shearer as Prime Minister of Jamaica are usually muted when compared to that of his successors, Michael Manley and Edward Seaga. Some of his accomplishments, including a stable economy and the building of...
Securing or fixing the legacy
THE MOST Honourable Hugh Lawson Shearer has left us and immediately there is talk about his official funeral and his ascent into National Hero's status. This is one of the natural things what we do as a society. We try to canonise our dead...
Slang affects children
"PEOPLE MARCHED and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around who can't speak English," fumed Bill Cosby recently.
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