Jamaica Awaits First Female Leader

This sounds great to me. Does anyone have more background on this?



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4861378.stm

that she's stupid and corrupt.

Her college degree comes from "Union Institute" in Miami, which, as a South Florida resident, I can tell you is not an actual institute of higher learning here.

As far as the corruption, there was something about theft of some $2 billion from Jamaica's waste management authority while she ran it.

But that's par for the course in Jamaican politics.

I know nothing about Jamaican politics and this story reads like a rags-to-riches success story.

it's the methods that led to that success that raise questions.

At the same time, though, Jamaicans could do far worse than her. Jamaican politics is reknown for corruption. A lot of the major political figures on the island make Simpson-Miller look angelic. If she surrounds herself with smart people who know what they're doing, she should do fune. She's run on an anti-crime, pro-labor platform, which is exactly what they need right now.

In any case, this article's a pretty good start:

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060226/lead/lead6.html

and the education.

I had no idea the homophobia there was so extreme until I started listening to dancehall and reading more about the culture.

As a woman, she'll probably do her very best, knowing she's carrying the hopes of a lot of future candidates on her shoulders.

and corrupt -- but that's par for the course.

The entire country is a giant cesspool of malfunctioning government, and it makes the Bush administration look like the most effecient govt in the world.

That being said, she is not more corrupt than the average Jamaican politico, and she has the potential doe do some great things -- I sincerely wish her the best of luck. Jamaica has to do a lot to come into the 20th (much less the 21st) century, and hopefully she can advance them.

As for gay rights in Jamaica... forget it, it will never happen.

Note: I don't live there, but spend 3-4 weeks a year there (not in tourist destinations), and my parents are permanent residents.

Do you reallty think its that bad?.. Although, my mother lives there, I don't follow too much of Jamaican politics.

Article 76 of Jamaican Offences against the Person Act: punishes the "abominable crime of buggery" by up to ten years of imprisonment with hard labor.

Article 79 of Jamaican Offences against the Person Act: punishes any act of physical intimacy between men in public or private by a term of imprisonment up to two years and possibility of hard labor.

I'm absolute sure that they will do 1000 times better a job then men. Nothing against men. It's just my opinion.

And like Condi would do a 1000 times better job than, say, Dennis Kucinich?

It's just my opinion.

Doubtless, and what a ludicrous and bigoted opinion it is.

"The Right Woman ... not a Woman of the Right".

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