Opinion
Finding Strength in Haiti’s Darkest Day
January 11, 2012 | 11:39 am | 0 Comment
Above: A man walks past rubble in downtown Port-au-Prince after the January 2010 earthquake (UN Photo/Marco Dormino) By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor Now comes time for remembrance. What history will surely describe as the darkest day in Haitian history, in terms of lives lost and unfulfilled dreams, the destruction on Jan. 12, 2010 is something that no other more...
Op-Ed: The IMF and Jamaica
January 9, 2012 | 5:26 pm | 1 Comments
By David P Rowe Op-Ed Contributor It is obvious that the IMF and the JLP government were either in continuous disagreement or that they were unable to enter a mediated agreement over the last year. According to the IMF’s website, Jamaica has not passed an IMF test since September 2010, and taken none since December 2010. The current agreement comes to an end in May more...
Op-Ed: Jamaica’s Election Paradoxes
January 6, 2012 | 10:28 am | 0 Comment
By Patrick A Gallimore Op-Ed Contributor The recently concluded general election in Jamaica was filled with a few glaring paradoxes. There was low voter turnout on election day, yet, the incumbent Jamaica Labour Party government administration was vigorously voted out, which broke the "every Jamaican government gets at least two terms in office" and "a low voter more...
Marcia Forbes: Jamaica Votes 2011 and the Women Who Ran
January 3, 2012 | 6:00 am | 1 Comments
Above: MPs Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams, Shahine Robinson and Denise Daley By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor In the recently-concluded December 2011 national elections the two major political parties in Jamaica, the People’s National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), fielded a total of 19 women, six by the PNP and 13 by the JLP. At the end of more...
Kent Gammon: What Are the Priorities of the New Jamaican Government?
January 2, 2012 | 10:25 am | 1 Comments
By Kent Gammon Op-Ed Contributor The Peoples’ National Party led by the Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller, was handsomely rewarded by the Jamaican people in the country’s 16th general election, taking 42 of the 63 seats in the House of Parliament. The Jamaican people seem to have made a direct association with the current very high cost of living, caused in large part by more...
Regional Outlook: Preparing for the Worst, Hoping for the Best
December 28, 2011 | 6:30 am | 0 Comment
By Hasan Tuluy Op-Ed Contributor Latin America and the Caribbean began 2011 on an economic high. After swiftly bouncing back from the 2008/2009 global crisis, the region grew at a record level in 2010 with some countries reaching East Asian rates of 8 to 10 percent— so fast in fact that early this year economists worried about overheating, additional currency more...
Durandis: Haiti’s Climate of Opinion
December 26, 2011 | 12:36 am | 0 Comment
By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor Reading Milton Friedman’s book, Free to Choose, the concept of a “climate of opinion” as a tool to help shape policies could be just what the doctor ordered for the upcoming year for Haiti. Friedman argued that in the case of the United States and some European countries, the climate of opinion at a particular time would drive more...
Op-Ed: Jake Johnston on Humanitarian Aid in Haiti: Supply and Demand
December 23, 2011 | 6:00 am | 0 Comment
Above: A woman sits in front of her home at a camp for persons displaced by the January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince (UN Photo/Logan Abassi) By Jake Johnston Op-Ed Contributor “Donors and aid organizations prefer to be the boss of their own money. And they want to be in charge of how to spend it, where to spend it, and if to spend it at all,” Linda more...
Op-Ed: If Matters Go Wrong
December 17, 2011 | 5:51 am | 0 Comment
By David P Rowe Op-Ed Contributor If matters go wrong in a free society, it is in the public interest that a free media exist to provide the public with information that the public has a right to know. This is particularly true in the case of young democracies like Jamaica. Without a free press, a Westminster model of government might get away with cover-ups, more...
Op-Ed: Jamaica at a Crossroads
December 14, 2011 | 6:00 am | 1 Comments
By Kent Gammon Op-Ed Contributor The Jamaican people will decide their fate on the Dec. 29 in the country’s 16th general election. They face a major crossroads: go with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) which will mean austerity measures due to International Monetary Fund (IMF) prescriptions or with the People’s National Party (PNP), which will mean a very likely more...
