Tag: Political Participation

• 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…

  gerbry

  March 20, 2019

  Politics

  2016 General Elections, Accountability, Artificial intelligence, bio-metric verification, Cloud computing, Digital Democracy, Digital Marketing, ECJ, Elector Registration System, Electoral Commission of Jamaica, Electronic Voter Identification and Ballot Issuing System (EVIBIS), Fingerprint verification, Good Governance, Goverment, Jamaican Political Culture, Jamaican Politics, Low voter turnout, National Identification System (NIDS), Nigeria parliamentary election, Orette Fisher, Political Participation, Politics, Tanzania’s Independent National Electoral Commission, Transparency, Universal Adult Suffrage, Voter’s ID, Voters List

• Fenton must Go, no second chances!

  I find myself seriously questioning Madam Prime Minister’s competence with this recent decision she has made to keep former Minister of Health Dr Fenton Ferguson in the leadership of our country after the HOT MESS he has left our Health Care system in. Clearly, the PNP administration is not intent on securing another term in…

  gerbry

  November 7, 2015

  Commentary

  Accountability, Fenton Ferguson, Governance, Inegrity, Jamaica, JLP, Leadership, Mama P, Ministry of Health, PNP, Political Participation, Politics, Portia Simpson Miller, Premature Babies, Transparency, vision 2030, Youth Activism