The JLP leadership is still unsettled
POLITICAL party matters are usually highly sensitive and secretive, but historically, when it affects the leadership of the JLP, everyone’s bedroom, barroom and verandah talk will always claim that they know exactly what is taking place close to the top.
Political leadership in and outside of government is, of course, a most difficult matter. Indeed it could be said that holding the job of prime minister of Jamaica is less difficult than maintaining the post of leader of the opposition, especially if that opposition is the JLP, which it usually is.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has grown quite adept, as most prime ministers do, at claiming successes as her own and deflecting policy hitches or failures to her key government ministers. Even in her recent visit to China, I am certain that… Read full article in our E-Paper
