Addresses

WELCOME Your Excellencies, Professor Kenneth Hall and Mrs Rheima Hall; Leader of the Opposition, Honourable Bruce Golding and Mrs Golding; Chief Justice, the Honourable Lensley Wolfe; Dr. the Honourable Peter Phillips, representing the Prime Minister and Mrs Phillips; Honourable Donald Buchannan and Mrs Buchanan; other Ministers of Government; Members of Parliament; Honourees of the Electoral […]

ELECTIONS AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE The people are sovereign. The people elect their representatives to form the Government. Elections are the mechanism through which the people decide if representatives previously elected should continue in office or be replaced. This system is the essence of the democratic form of government and governance.

Congratulations on being duly nominated as Candidates for the Local Government Elections. Thanks for offering yourself for public service. It is an awesome responsibility to be the elected representatives of people in the 228 electoral divisions across the country. December 29, 2011, General Elections were the best-conducted elections in the history of the country. It […]

CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS Reverend Canon, the Honourable Weeville Gordon, Custos of Kingston and Mrs Gordon; Honourable Derrick Smith, Minister of National Security and Justice; Dr. the Honourable Carlton Davis and Mrs Davis; Dr Peter Phillips, Opposition Spokesman on National Security and Justice; Commissioners of the Electoral Commission and your spouses; Mr Danville Walker, Director of […]

Act II Scene V of Twelfth Knight contains one of Shakespeare’s most oft-repeated quotations: “Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them”. Carlton Earl Davis is not one to the manor born. No hereditary legacy has made him great. Usually, it is politicians and […]