Will Racing Sleep With The Fishes?
BY THE TERRIBLE TOUT I can’t believe this is my 50th column for Public Opinion. Or that you’ve allowed me to bore you to death for so long. Ah, well, once …
Jamaica Election Day 2025 in Retrospect
Jamaica’s general election for 2025 has come and it has gone. When I look back to the elections of the 1970s, of the 1980s and of the 1990s, I have to …
My Take On The PNP Leadership Race
Appendix; Keywords will be Keep or Dump. There will be a slot called Good at job, Last Chance Saloon and Rope to Hang Self. “Last chance saloon” means that they have …
Media must pick a side and stand by that choice
The media is laced with hypocrisy. Many times it is unintentional, but those unintentional moments oftentimes mount after a while. These moments ensure that whatever stance the paper, editor or writer …
A Way Out Of This Self-Imposed Purgatory
The passing of the Most Honourable Edward Seaga has occupied our thoughts and has stimulated discussion and analysis of our views of his service. Certainly, most have been strongly partisan …
Instead of killing the messenger…
Jamaican politics is a tribal thing. It always has been. This is in no small part due to our size and the domination of only two political parties since the people …
Either tackle the issues of race and class, or shut up, Mr Politician
Recently, during the heat of the Portland Eastern by-election campaign the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate, Mr Damion Crawford, raised the issues of both class and race, while also making …
Pearl-clutchers and enhanced security measures
The nation is in shock to the core at the recent announcement by the Public Defender that hundreds of children have been held in detention (sometimes extended) under the SOE in …