In Focus

As close as it was predicted, he has won by more than a nose. In fact, he has beaten the whole nest of candidates and the only ones who didn't affirm his victory were the old nest. Now, unless there is an act of God or some act of the devil that he commits, Andrew Holness is not only going to be the next leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) but, more important, he is going to be the ninth prime minister of Jamaica.

K.D. Knight is jinxed. His demeaning and derogatory remarks about Portia Simpson Miller's intellectual capacity during the leadership contest with his candidate, Peter Phillips, badly hurt Phillips.

Farmer Joe telephoned saying that he was in the Corporate Area, having driven over to transport Harry back to Trelawny to spend the remainder of his three-week holiday with relatives in the parish.

The international media have come to its own conclusions about the reasons for Bruce Golding's decision to step down as prime minister and party leader.

Mash down garrison politics?The nine-month reluctance of Prime Minister Bruce Golding to sanction the extradition of the undisputed head of the strongest garrison in Jamaica was, arguably, the most lethal blow to his 40-year political career.

Democracy is about listening to the people, and Bruce Golding has listened to the people.

I am submitting this section from my biography, 'My Life and Leadership: Volume I', pages 160-163 - a model used by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to select a new prime minister in the mid-term period.The JLP, under Donald...

Portia Simpson Miller cannot win. If she had used her massive party conference last weekend to simply rant, ridicule and blast Bruce Golding and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), she would have been damned for being negative and not talking solutions. When she proposed some solutions for tackling our unemployment crisis, she was dismissed for merely trying to bribe voters and 'fool up' people.

Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller brought some exciting news to the country at her party conference last Sunday. This is very important, as it is said she is hinging her party's anticipated return to power on employment. What makes this so exciting is that countries great and small have been struggling with this problem since the recession.

Whatever its off-road capabilities might be, the JEEP of the Opposition PNP will need the JDIP of the governing JLP. Or to put it another way, Jamaica's development will need cross-party government and opposition collaboration on a number of critical things. But the way criticism and condemnation have been poured upon JEEP and JDIP, the prospects do not look good at all.

The outrageous headline 'Brownings, please', published in The Sunday Gleaner on September 11, has set off a firestorm of responses by a wide cross section of the Jamaican population.Tyrone Reid, the newspaper's enterprise reporter, has informed the...

The People's National Party (PNP) is holding its annual conference this weekend and the public session of the conference is today. The keynote speaker will, of course, be the party president, Portia Simpson Miller. The party well knows that elections are due by next September. It says it is "progressive, strong and ready".