Category: Politics
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Digitizing Political Participation: Can this Save Jamaica’s Democracy?
Jamaica’s Democracy is dying. An article in the Jamaica Observer, titled The meaning of the 2016 General Election lower voter turnout, posited that in our 74 years of Universal Adult Suffrage since its declaration in 1944, the percentage voter turnout in 2016 was the lowest in a general parliamentary election ever recorded. Voter turnout in…
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My Two Cents: Access Granted, Hope denied #GuildElections2017
In what was arguably one of the most exciting, contentious, controversial and participative election periods at the UWI Mona Guild, Mr. Oshane Grant, the current Games Committee Chairman and presidential candidate, was GRANTED ACCESS to lead the Guild of students for the 2017-2018 academic year. Grant, a member of the Chancellor Hall fraternity clinched the…
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The Fix that the Guild needs
What I am about to say will either anger some of you, enlighten some of you or have no effect whatsoever. But regardless, let me state unequivocally that this is neither an attack on the current administration nor the integrity of the institution as a whole; but merely an objective take on something relevant to…
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Free Up wi Democracy!
The shackles on our Democracy have been singing a tune for freedom for too long, and it is time that we start to listen. The leaders who serve us should not have the power to determine when they wish to prove themselves to the people, essentially enslaving our democracy. The last four years of governance…
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Will Juliet get Slam Dunc’d? or will Romeo come to her rescue?
Who would have thought that fairytales had a place in Jamaican Politics? Just when you think you have seen or read it all, something like this happens that reminds us we haven’t. I reckon that this race for East Rural St Andrew between Senator Imani Duncan-Price and wife of the Opposition Leader, Juliet Holness will…
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