Jamaica and the World

These are the dark and wet days of the rainy season, when Jamaicans on island hope we know what lies ahead (Christmas), but generally aren’t willing to put our money on it……
While sloshing through flooded roads or sitting in traffic while the water rises round us, we think about the day when someone might […]

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Here are 4 techniques for ensuring a successful career in Jamaican politics, despite misguided voters, financial scandals and other mishaps……
Technique No# 1: Not a favourite with the voters ? Facing mutiny within your own party ? Cultivate a hard head and “strong ears”
Edward Seaga (in younger days)
The most successful practitioner of this technique is, […]

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This week’s hot social issue is the new data contained in the thrilling and much anticipated government publication The Labour Force Survey 2005 (get your own copy hot off the press from The Statistical Institute of Jamaica).

Using this data, social scientists Robert Buddan and Dr. Trevor Munroe have identified a new group (henceforth to […]

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JLP gears up, hopes there’s an election…..

Bruce Golding, the Opposition leader, has been on form this week. The JLP has been running some very unusual (for Jamaica) political ads - Bruce’s family testifying as to what a great guy he is. I specially liked the one by his wife, but they were all successful in […]

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This week (AND last week, AND the week before) Jamaican residents have been subjected to a barrage of political polls in our daily papers.
Even if you didn’t bother to buy a paper, you had to listen to dozens of analysts every day, on every radio station, telling you what the polls mean……

The only interesting thing […]

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