Politics did not become a four-letter word by accident — and it will not be redeemed by cynicism - Most people who offer themselves for public life in Jamaica are not thieves. That sentence is so rarely spoken aloud that it has begun to sound like a defence.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica September 13, 2026 | Calvin G Brown | - Some 2,400 years ago, in a borrowed evening at the house of Cephalus, Socrates laid a small trap for his friends. Good men, he argued, do not chase office; they shoulder it reluctantly, the way one shoulders a burden nobody else will lift. And the penalty for refusing to lift it? You will be governed by someone worse than yourself. Plato set it down in the first book of the Republic, and it has been rattling around Western politics ever since — usually in a snappier paraphrase the old man never actually wrote.
