Hugh Shearer: Ja's greatest PM?
WHO WAS Ja's greatest prime minister? This is an unanswerable question, for politics has many facets. Who did more for their country, Gandhi or Lee Kwan Yew? So here is a simpler topic. Which PM did the best job of improving Jamaicans'...
'I've been to Tivoli'
DEPUTY GENERAL Secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Don Creary said he harbours no ill-feeling towards Edward Seaga despite statements by the Opposition Leader that Creary and other members of the 'reformist' wing of the party should stay away...
Is Shearer's death prophecy or coincidence?
LAST YEAR November, Jamaican-American evangelist Paul Lewis predicted that a top politician is going to die within eight to 18 months, stirring the audience into murmurs as they try to ascertain who it would be.
Life or death in the hands of the judges
THE LONG debate as to whether the mandatory death sentence imposed on persons convicted of capital murder is constitutional is finally over. Last week Wednesday the United Kingdom Privy Council put an end to the debate when it handed down...
Keeping it in the family?
WITH TALK in Jamaica Labour Party circles of a Bruce Golding/ Pearnel Charles contest to succeed Party Leader Edward Seaga in November, attention has turned to what the men have most in common a strong family connection, with Golding being...
The rise of don culture
BEFORE SENTENCING reputed leader of the British Link-up Crew, Owen 'Father Fowl' Clarke to 13 years in prison in June, a British judge described him as one of the most dangerous men in England.
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