Jamaica and the World

“Not even close ” is what Cliff Hughes, Jamaica’s only Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist, was muttering to himself last Friday evening during his show on Nationwide.
He had just been covering the RJR polls done by Ian Boxhill and his team (the former Stone pollsters). The polls being discussed were done in 2 constituencies - Central […]

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1. The debate over numerology and the place of religion in politics

Pastor Phillip Phinn
Everyone (from the talk shows to the columnists) attacks the Prime Minister for supposedly advocating numerology and/or being guided by Pastor Phinn’s prophecies in her choice of election date. This debate reminds us that this election will be about who […]

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The Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, has announced that August 27 will be election day in Jamaica.
So who will win the election ?
There have been no new polls published this week (well, Bill Johnson has produced polls of a sort) , so the PNP is still ahead as far as we know.
How is it possible […]

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Blowback : an unforeseen and unwanted effect, result, or set of repercussions
The Woolmer investigation

DCP Mark Shields gets his revenge on the pathologist in the Woolmer case, Dr Seshaiah, whose testimony (i.e. that the police version of events was correct and the men were NOT killed at close range) in the Braeton Seven killings caused […]

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It’s like deja-vu, all over again…..  Yogi Berra
For those of us who remember the last General Election in 2002, today’s polls, columns and media commentary seem to be a rehash from those days.

2002 : Prime Minister of Jamaica and the Leader of the Oppostion
Here we have a Don Anderson poll […]

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