EDITORIAL - The importance of consensus
There are many, we expect, who are suspicious of one of the reasons given by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller for not going to general election with the immediacy that was possible, given her decision to announce the August 27 poll date seven weeks ahead of time....
For love of money
With the announcement of the election date, the political environment gets more intense. Why the Prime Minister should allow seven more weeks of demanding, non-stop and expensive campaigning is known only to her. Her ministers, officers and close confidantes... - Delroy Chuck
A man for the election season
Sir Thomas More was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1501, and in 1504 he entered Parliament as an MP. He became Lord Chancellor of England in 1529 under King Henry VIII at a time of great turmoil: the King wanted annulment of his marriage... - Peter Espeut
Organisational imperatives
Now that Jamaica and Jamaicans know the date of the election, it is incumbent on us all to conduct ourselves with discipline and to recognise that violence, intimidation and the other ugly aspects of our political culture will set us all back... - Hilary Robertson-Hickling
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