By Chester Francis-Jackson, ContributorTHE YEAR'S MOVERS
AND SHAKERS!
Michael Lee-Chin
Desmond and Peggy Blades
John and Aida Issa
William McConnell
Butch Stewart
Kenny Benjamin
Dennis and Jane Joslin
Dr. Marshall Hall
Thalia Lyn
Robert MacMillan
THE YEAR'S TOP 10 PERSONALITIES!
Anders Jones: Man of The Year! Founder of Teens For Technology, the American organisation committed to providing 100 schools and institutions across Jamaica with a fully equipped computer lab.
Nadine Willis: Woman of the Year! A success story born out of courage and the drive for self-improvement!
Dennis Joslin: Head of Dennis Joslin Jamaica and the single largest holder of private debt in the Island. His intervention has brought stability and security to an otherwise jittery economic and social marketplace
Lascelles Chin: Joining the ranks of the multinationals!
Karl Hendrickson: The artist and patriarch of an ever-expanding dynasty!
Thalia Lyn: A social force and powerbroker with a social conscience!
James Robertson: A political wild card that is proving a trump!
Desmond McKenzie, Mayor of Kingston and St. Andrew: Taking order and decorum to the nation's capital, after years of neglect.
Pat Ramsay: First Class is not a boarding pass, it's an attitude!
Usain Bolt: The inspirational future of track and field.
WHO'S IN!
Paul Burke: PNP power-player and power-broker.
Bruce Golding: Political promise yet realised!
Chris Astaphan: A part of the Trinity!
Gary Barrow: Making C&W happen again!
Dr. Christopher Tufton: The future of politics!
Michael Ammar, Jr.: The Trend of business to come!
Gassan Azan: Retail/wholesale guru!
Kingsley Cooper: Forging
a vibrant Caribbean fashion industry!
Minna Israel: Banking's hot new face!
Doreen Frankson: Restoring the credibility gap!
WHO'S OUT!
Dr. Vin Lawrence: Seemed to have lost some political sheen and clout!
Police Commissioner Francis Forbes: Presided over the Kraal killings; rising crime; the Braeton Seven; the Tivoli affair. Should have demitted office when K.D. Knight was re-assigned.
SSP Reneto Adams: Way too many questionable shootings from men under his command Errald Miller: Downsized by the competition
Fay Pickersgill: Retired none too soon!
Rev. Al Miller: A legend in his own mind, and maybe in the church.
Deacon Ronald Thwaites: The 'Puppy Deacon' did the honourable thing! Even the PNP, did the honourable thing! Why won't he?
MP Karl Blythe: No comeback
kid here! The country simply cannot afford his kind of stewardship!
Charlene Robertson: A private correspondence is supposed to be that, private!
Daryl Vaz: Just when people thought the socially and politically dead would stay interred!
WHO'S HOT !
Dr. Peter Phillips: The Choice of the Establishment.
Audley Shaw: Defining moment yet to come!
Derrick Smith: The dark horse!
Audrey Marks: Quietly forging
Donna Duncan-Scott: The face of success!
Ambassador Peter King: International know-how and research.
Brian Jardim/Ian Dear: North coast powerhouse.
Mark Kerr-Jarrett: Montego Bay's
powerful land baron.
Francesca von Hapsburg: European blue-blood.
WHO'S NOT
Dr. Omar Davies: For years sold off national assets to balance an unbalanceable budget.
Portia Simpson Miller: Squandered political goodwill in favour of cosying up to the polloi!
Arnold 'Scree' Bertram: Consultant, my patooey!
Clarence Clarke: The hand of Esau!
Babsy Grange: Old Palace Guard!
Ed Bartlett: The fall of the Praetorian Guard.
Horace Chang: A political gate-keeper.
Brian Chung/Christopher Cargill: Entertainment czars!
Shalman Scott: Yesterday's news!
Aubyn Hill: Napoleonic complex?
Paul Hoo: Downsized after talks of
funding the budget gap.
THE MOST OVERRATED
P.J. Patterson: Enough, already !
Herro Blair: Publicity hound or mediator?
Dr. Trevor Munroe: A cure for all.
Anthony Abrahams: Next!
Trevor Riley: Fifteen minutes of fame came and went!
Eleanor Brown: All that glitters...
Colin Campbell: Political runt on the decline.
Sen. Kern Spencer: Get real!
Dennis Morrison: Needed a reduction in his portfolio.
Mark Wignall: A wannabe king-maker in search of credibility!
THE MOST UNDERRATED
Lorna Golding: Charm and tactical wit!
Dr. David Panton: Victim of political back-stabbing and rumourmongering!
Harry Douglas: A political coyote!
Sean Paul: Proved that ghetto dwellers do not have an exclusive to the dancehall genre!
Skeng Don's: Politically influential.
Howard Hamilton: Powerbroker and PNP inner circle!
Phillip Paulwell: On his way back to the top!
Danhai Williams: Known in his circles as 'The Real Big Man!'
Dudus: Known within his circles as Mr. President.
WHO'S COMING!
Wallace Campbell: Art collector
extraordinaire!
Capt. Horace Burrell: Coming into regional appreciation.
James Samuels: Tourism fabdom!
Peter Melhado: Corporate come-uppance!
Dr. Omri Evans: The truth about our finances.
Earl Moore: Spearheading the re-birth of an industry.
Paul Pennicook: Tourism's new face.
Neville Blythe: Creating an empire!
Lennie Little-White: The making of television film-making industry!
Kevin Levee: Internationalised Hedonism III in its first year of
operations!
WHO'S GOING!
Percival Latouche: A political has-been who never was!!
Easton Douglas: A used to be what?
Errol Ennis: A spent force!
A.J. Nicholson: A brain transplant could help!
Crenston Boxhill: Discard the luggage then step up to the plate and perform!
Vybz Kartel: A menace to dancehall!
DJ Ninja Man: Promoters should force him into retirement!
Bounty Killer: A source of
confrontation and destabilisation!
HOT SPOTS
Velisa's (Devon Road): The hottest new restaurant of 2003!
Norma's Whitehall Avenue: Fabulous food and ethnic drinks!
The Terra Nova: Tres chic!
Blue Lagoon: Simply a must for those with a sense of discriminating taste!
Asylum Nightclub: Hot like a coal fire being stoked with gasolene!
Hellshire Beach: The fish and lobster fare is simply over the top!
The Courtleigh Hotel: First World charm, old world elegance and fine dining!
The Hilton Kingston: Service above and beyond the ordinary!
Round Hill: A treat and then some as the place to hobnob!
The Jamaica Pegasus Hotel: Back in style and how!
THE TOP 10 MUST-DO
THINGS, FOR 2004!
Visit the weekly Wednesday night dancehall do, 'Passa Passa' in west Kingston!
Spend a weekend at Hedonism II or III!
Lunch at the Blue Lagoon in Port Antonio!
Go swimming with the Dolphins at Dolphin Cove in Ocho Rios!
Take the family/friends on an outing to Guardsman Serenity Fishing and Wild Life Sanctuary, near Old Harbour, in St. Catherine!
Dine at The Gap Café, in the Blue Mountains!
Take a walk on the wild side visit Shades Night Club in Ocho Rios for their 'Freaky Tuesdays' affaire!
Give a helping hand to a friend, neighbour, or total stranger!
Make a trip to Little Ochi!
Buy from and support national businesses/industries/enterprises that are not only Jamaican, but reinvest in Jamaica and not repatriate their profits to live fat on the hog in their non-Jamaican adopted homes.
HOT TOPICS
The state of the economy.
Child abuse and/or neglect!
The state of the nation
Omar Davies' continued stewardship of the nation's economy.
NOT SO HOT TOPICS
When is Eddie Seaga going to resign?
Homosexuality!
Who will succeed P.J. Patterson?
A Caribbean Court of Appeal!
