Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will by now have already prepared her list of New Year resolutions, or, at least, a list of things she hopes to accomplish before she goes into the general election some time before year-end.

Hopefully, the goals the PM has set herself are simple, uncomplicated, achievable and, most critically, will set a path for the sustained development of Jamaica. We have a few ideas and suggestions to offer to Mrs. Simpson Miller.

First, she must not mistake our notion of simple to be simplistic or that while being uncomplicated, initiatives cannot be bold and grand. For this precisely is what we are asking of the Prime Minister - to be bold and grand and to take courageous action. We believe that she must move beyond the safety of politics as usual, take risks and embrace what, essentially, are simple ideas.

As we have argued before, Mrs. Simpson Miller should, as part of a transformational politics, begin to leverage her great strength, her charisma and ability to connect with people, in how she organises the government. The minutiae of management is clearly not Mrs. Simpson Miller's strongest suit. We suspect it may even bore her.

She should, therefore, appoint a deputy Prime Minister to oversee the day-to-day, nitty-gritty management of the administration, while she sees to the overarching, visionary stuff and keeps a scorecard of ministerial performance. Mrs. Simpson Miller, in other words, should run a presidential-style administration in which she would be the motivator-in-chief.

And in driving the vision for the Government, we have three areas to which the Prime Minister must pay specific attention and inspire the transformation: rooting out public corruption; cleaning up her political party; and, cleaning up the country. All three, are in a sense, connected, but the first two especially so.

In terms of her party, the leader must drive from within it the tainted men whose aim it is to gorge on the spoils of politics, whether by tactics of strong-armed enforcement or sophisticated deal-making. The PM must ensure that no one accused and charged by the State of attempting to defraud it, can sit on the high councils of the People's National Party and that shady men of SUV convoys with outriders of musclemen are deprived of political access and influence. She has to break their hold and drive them from the party, inasmuch as the same must happen with enforcers at the community level.

Recent outbreaks of malaria and leptospirosis only underline our case for the PM to use her charisma to lead a massive clean-up of our country, which, the truth be told, has grown dirty and unkempt - "the uglification of Jamaica", it was called by Mrs. Simpson Miller's predecessor.

The Prime Minister would be surprised to see how a clean, well-maintained environment could inspire confidence among people. Such a project need not be overly expensive, especially in the absence of the spoil-takers who would have been on their way out of the party. Indeed, in their absence, she would notice how much cheaper everything else is across the economy.