EDITORIAL - Golding and the Constitution
Bruce Golding, the Opposition Leader, having given short shrift to our observation that his radical proposal demands serious thought and deep and mature debate, is insisting that if his party wins next month's general election he will, within his first 100 days, bring legislation for a fixed election date.
Jamaica's electoral model under threat?
In Jamaica's 45 years of Independence, there have been few new institutions of more significance than the Jamaican electoral system (JES). The JES is not only made up of the laws, regulations and offices, but also the convention hammered out in 1979 between the country's two political leaders and honoured by their successors to this day. (Johnson)
Why was Bruce so cross?
I claim no powers of clairvoyance. But last week I said that what Opposition Leader Bruce Golding does isn't silly, it's just plain stupid. Not even I, who think so little of his abilities, however, could have wished to see him almost cry on camera last Sunday night. (Ritch)
Superstition, zodiac and numbers games
Little green men are from Mars, big orange women are from Venus... I felt it necessary to study a bit of astronomy and astrology, given the Prime Minister's alleged obsession with the number seven. So, in the second paragraph, here is a secondhand understanding of the second topic. (Taylor)
The election date - seven squared
It was a massive crowd that filled every square centimetre of Half-Way Tree last Sunday when Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announced election day. She raised a brass trumpet above her head and declared the date August 27. And the crowd dressed in saffron danced. (Wilson)
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