The Government, led by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, recently took a deliberate political decision to print a $2,000 banknote bearing the images, side by side, of former prime ministers Michael Manley and Edward Seaga.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica May 9, 2022 - One of my persistent criticisms about the landscape of Jamaican society (and might I add, including the Church), relates to double standards. This practice of double standards is often manifested in the unbalanced and disproportionate application of laws and rules.
KINGSTON,Jamaica, May 8, 2022 - Andrew Holness, looking at the man in the mirror, will contemplate that every prime minister, from Shearer in 1970 to Simpson Miller in 2015, fully supported the game-changing initiative for Jamaica to leave the Privy Council to subscribe to a final appeal court for the Commonwealth Caribbean countries.
So, why didn’t the Government of Barbados confer our country’s highest national honour on Tony Cozier during his lifetime? Why wasn’t he “Sir Tony Cozier”?
A few weeks ago, a regrettable faux pas pushed Guyana’s Local Content Policy (LCP) into News Headlines across the region. The Act seeks reasonable retention of benefits generated by activity in the oil sector for Guyanese companies, businesses and workers to a degree that optimizes use of existing and readily created local capacity.
MONTEGO BAY, April 27, 2022 - According to the Head of the Area One Police, Assistant Commissioner Clifford Chambers, young people in St. James are at a high risk of becoming involved in criminal activities.
Since Edward Seaga's passing, meaningful efforts, including by the news media time and again, to goad Andrew Holness into addressing the structural issues that present challenges and confusion at the apex of Jamaica's judicial system have been met with a tomblike silence.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 26, 2022 - At Jamaica's stage of development, with the legal and jurisprudential guidance necessary for our progressive forward movement, a mere two or three petitions annually before our final appeal court constitutes a crisis, and there is no doubt as to the reason for its existence: it is a matter of affordability.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 6, 2022 - During a Harvard Law School lecture last April, Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the US Supreme Court made clear that he viewed the judiciary as divorced from politics. Once a judge takes an oath, he declared, "(T)hey are loyal to the rule of law, not to the political party that helped to secure their appointment."
