Earlier this year Prof Carolyn Cooper infuriated other members of the intelligentsia when she claimed that the race for the PNP presidency was a struggle to determine who ‘owns’ Jamaica. Is the island the property of the black majority, the so-called poorer classes ? Or is it the property of middle class Jamaicans of all [...]
Entries from October 31st, 2006
Island temperature: hot, rainy, election brewing
October 31st, 2006 · 4 Comments · Jamaica days
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Jamaica after Trafigura ? Money matters
October 15th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Jamaica days, Think global
Market forces (Part I) After a week (or is it two ?) of exercising ourselves over Dutch oil trader, Trafigura Beheer, paying J$31 million for the PNP party conference, big money is still on the agenda as our Minister of Finance Dr. Omar Davies announced that the Government of Jamaica will give a Serbian football [...]
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Bruce Golding knocks Colin Campbell out of Cabinet, asks for next contender…
October 9th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Jamaica days
UPDATE October 23, 2009 Colin Campbell, long since vanished from the national political scene, finally settles with the bank that (evidently illegally) exposed him. Please note that the other culprit, Phillip Paulwell, remains both in Parliament and in the Shadow Cabinet. Remember the name : Phillip Paulwell. This is a man who thoroughly understands Jamaican [...]
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Bruce bites off more than he can chew (Updated Saturday Oct 7, ‘06)
October 5th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Jamaica days, Think global
There was nuff excitement in the precincts of Parliament Tuesday gone (Oct 3, ’06). While the MP’s of the governing party were inside the House debating a motion to censure Opposition MP Karl Samuda (for being Karl Samuda and running off his mouth), the Leader of the Opposition walked out of the debate and held [...]
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