Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Sunday | January 25, 2009
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Who's not! Who's not!

From left, Manley, Schnoor, Samuda, Duncan-Scott, Lazarus and Burrell.

  • Who's Not

    1 Lorna Golding: Has lost some support from those who were eager to guide her.

    2 Minister Karl Samuda: Does not seem to understand the precepts of the capitalist system.

    3 ACP Les Green: A controversial figure.

    4 Aubyn Hill: Seemed to have fizzed.

    5 Alfred Sangster: An intellectual heavyweight ?

    6 MP Joe Hibbert: More questions than answers.

    7 Dr Chris Tufton: Became an object of ridicule with his cassava rescue plan.

    8 Hugh Nash: Stale news?

    9 Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin: Needs to assert his leadership over the force he now commands.

    10 Capt Horace Burrell: Seems to have forgotten where the buck stops.

  • Who's hot!

    1 Beverly Anderson Manley: The Manley Memoirs - make for a time-contextual intervention.

    2 Glen Mills: Took the prodigious talent of Usain Bolt and made him into an international sensation.

    3 Stephen Francis: Made the MVP track club an international athletic force to be reckoned with.

    4 Robert MacMillan: Unimpeachable style.

    5 Minna Israel: Jamaica's first lady of commercial banking.

    6 Josef Forstmayr: Premier tourism ambassador.

    7 Donna Duncan-Scott: The Czarina of independent banking and investments.

    8 Mark Berry: Private-sector dynamo and front-runner!

    9 Anya Schnoor: Results oriented banking dynamo and visionary.

    10 Jason Henzell: Made the south coast of Jamaica, one red-hot avant-garde destination.

  • Personalities to watch in 2009

    Abe Dabdoub: Holds the key to the balance of political power.

    Andrew Holness: Second tier leadership of the JLP ready to assert itself.

    Asafa Powell: Brought tears to the eyes of many, after his disappointing run in the 100 metres finals, with his record-breaking anchor leg of the 4x4 men's relay, but has some demons to conquer.

    Jon Baker: Tourism's new power-player and music mogul.

    Kingsley Cooper: Taking Pulse and Villa Ronai to the next level.

    Saleem Lazarus: Power-broker and political facilitator.

    Joan Gordon-Webley: Stage set for political re-entry.

    David Hall: New entrepreneurial direction.

    Kai Wakeling: Singing talent on the verge of a national and international embrace.

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