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What is happening in the Ministry of Finance?

I thought the good Minister of Finance recently stated that the reason he was not a part of the IMF discussions in Washington was because those discussions were preliminary. By stating that “the minister is not involved at such a preliminary stage,” the Finance Minister, by implication, suggested that he would get involved at a [...]

YES WE DID!!

Last evening was amazing. A crowd almost the size of Jamaica’s population scrambled for a front seat view of history. We were a coalition of races, classes, age groups and backgrounds, united under the category of humanity, to one united message: we are greater than what divides us. We danced to soul music, we sang [...]

What do you think?

What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review; and Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class? What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization; what if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard? What [...]

Obama Helped Stranded Stranger 20 Years Ago.

It was 1988, and Mary Andersen was at the Miami airport checking in for a long flight to Norway to be with her husband when the airline representative informed her that she wouldn’t be able to check her luggage without paying a 100 surcharge: When it was finally Mary’s turn, she got the message that would crush her bubbling feeling of happiness. -You’ll have to pay a 103 dollar surcharge if you want to bring both those suitcases to Norway , the man behind the counter said.

Article I wrote for the JNM/ PNP

An attractive element of the People’s National Party has been its historical commitment to youth leadership and development. Unlike other political parties in the Caribbean, the PNP presents itself as a modern learning organization. Over the years, the party has successfully fused seasoned talents with young and vibrant ones. Since the inception of this noble [...]