Should the PNP be doves or hawks?

Jamaican Opposition Leader Portia Simpson-Miller’s fiery speech at the People’s National Party’s annual conference this weekend has already sparked criticism.
 In an editorial today, the Jamaica Gleaner stated:
But responsible criticism can never be confused with the kind of demagogy displayed on Sunday. It was an outrageous performance with alarming implications for Jamaica and the PNP.
The editorial [...]

Is JA as homophobic as we think…I think not.

This post was spurred by this article in this week’s International edition of Newsweek called Land of Reggae and Homophobia which looks at the much-discussed homophobia of Jamaica.
Now having lived in Jamaica for a few years, I think Mr. Contreras is overstating the situation. I am not at all trying to make excuses for JA’s homophobia [...]

Poor, Poor QEH…

This morning’s post, over at Barbados Free Press got me to thinking about my own experience with QEH.I spent a number of nights in QEH last year, as well as attended the maternity clinic there.Late in my pregnancy I was admitted overnight for observation as an existing heart murmur became increasingly noisy. I laboured and delivered [...]

Meanwhile…is Compton still alive?

Since weekend, rumours have been flying around St. Lucia and its diaspora (of which I am unofficially part…ahem!) that Sir John Compton is dead. If he’s not, he seems to be barely hanging on to life. HTS/CMC reporter Clinton Reynolds last night practically gave the St. Lucian Prime Minister his last rites, saying that members [...]

31-29…cyan done so?

Well as you can see here on the Jamaica Observer’s elections site, the results in JA’s elections – 31-29.
Not good. Not good at all. A result this close can only bring more political tension.
Not surprisingly, PNP leader Portia Simpson-Miller has refused to concede. Excerpts from her speech (as reported by an intrepid poster on Caribbean [...]

10-1 is murder but what about 30-30?

Hopefully, it won’t be so. Jamaicans go to the polls today, the conclusion of a protracted elections campaign- eight weeks! I never was convinced it should have been so long and Sista P may well live to regret it.
After Hurricane Dean, the state of emergency, the increasingly ominous polls which foretold an increasingly close election [...]