Whence cometh the balm?
citizen, which, by the Jamaican Constitution, would forbid him from sitting in the Jamaican Parliament.
So, there are matters to be resolved between Horne and the leadership of the PNP. What is clear is that this cannot be allowed to drag on. The Parliament must be properly constituted, especially in the midst of a raging pandemic. Horne should acknowledge if he is an American citizen. This would settle the matter
operations of the National Emergency Operations Centre, the designated administrative hub for coordinating efforts to address the pandemic. This facilitates the currency and relevance of the information that is relied on by the various stakeholders of the health system and the general public. Additionally, there is a pilot of an E-HIM initiative in the public health arena which facilitates contact tracing.
The Registrar General’s Department (RGD), in response to the COVID-19 crisis, launched the e-burial order for coronavirus-related deaths. This facilitates the downloading of the burial order by the informant who would not have to visit the RGD’S office. This could well immediately. If he wants to sit in the Senate he should indicate to the nation whether he wants to give up his US citizenship, and thus hold on to his appointment by the governor general to so sit in the House. Time is of the essence here.
In the meantime, the movie grinds on with Damion Crawford, a major actor in the script. In a voice note leaked to the public he is heard venting his disgust at operatives in the
become the new normal in the death registration process.
COVID-19 provided the wonderful opportunity to ‘test’ our electronic health information system. This opportunity may have seemed premature even within the National Health Information System Strengthening & E-health Strategy. Of note, though, the University Hospital of the West Indies has enjoyed the benefits of a hospital information management system (HIMS) that was implemented June 2017, and so information could be accessed in a digital environment.
What is next?
We don’t know for sure, but one thing is certain, all signs point to the need for the party while embellishing his credentials as perhaps the most popular person in the party. Under normal circumstances, Crawford’s apparent obsession with self would not be a subject to arrest one’s attention, but he is not an ordinary person in the PNP. As he obviously likes to boast, he received the largest number of votes as a vice-president of the party, which made him think that he could one day be the leader, and thus presumptive prime minister of Jamaica. Furthermore, he is a Member of the people’s Parliament, sitting as a member of the Senate for his party. Significantly, he has been named by his party leader as the spokesman on culture and entertainment, which may foreshadow a future Cabinet post. Thus, what he says in public should not be brushed aside.
I must confess that over the years of listening to Crawford I have not formed a holistic impression of his politics. He comes across as one who thinks of himself more highly than he ought. In the assessment of my colleague, Garfield Higgins,
accelerated implementation of the National Health Information System Strengthening & E-health Strategy to underpin the Government’s national identification system (NIDS) initiative. NIDS is coming soon. Even before the ink dried on his instrument of appointment, re-elected prime minister, Andrew Holness proclaimed that, “We would like before the end of the year, this year, that we should be seeking to pass the Bill into law.”
The demographic subsystem that is critical to the operations of any national health information system would have to be integrated in a national database that NIDS would provide. Could this ‘twinning’ be a critical he is a man who seems to be obsessed with credentials. If he is to have a future in the party, and the country’s political life, I would urge him to cool it. He is a man screaming for relevance, but he does not have to scream so loudly.
I agree that a private conversation between himself and another party should not have been leaked, but the person who leaked it must have considered it to be of such import for the public to know of it. Now we know. Crawford must now move to deal with the fallout from this sad episode in his political career. As a vice-president, he should always be thinking of ways in which he can heal the wounds in the party and bring people together, instead of further dividing them. With the number of times he has put his political foot in his mouth, he must have a gargantuan dental bill.
The question must be asked: Lisa, where art thou? Despite what others may say about her former Jamaica Labour
piece of the puzzle? Definitely.
This integration requires a multi-sectoral collaboration ranging from deliberate budgetary allocation on the Government’s part to stringent behaviour change modification of potential users and the public. Prudent health information practices should prevail to ensure that the users and public are fully cognisant of, and sensitive to the legitimate concerns regarding confidentiality, data privacy and protection.
The Ministry of Health and Wellness should proceed to execute the National Health Information System Strengthening & E-health Strategy to its functional point to facilitate the improvement
The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Jamaica Observer.
Party (JLP) credentials, she rose up to become a serious contender for leadership of the PNP. On the face of it, that is a tremendous feat which must not be overlooked. She and must not allow herself to be relegated to a position of irrelevance, especially by those who are more sound than fury.
The PNP is in a difficult place. It is in deep pain and despair. But the country needs a strong and robust Opposition party. Those who believe in the long-term survival of the party must do everything in their power to ensure its survival and that it bounces back more strongly than before.
It would be foolish to write the political obituary of the PNP. But its leadership and rank and file members must arrest the putrefaction that has set in.
Dr Raulston Nembhard is a priest, social commentator, and author of the book WEEP: Why President Donald J. Trump Does Not Deserve A Second Term. in the quality of health care and increased access to services. HIM education and training will also play critical roles in developing competences in this digital space.
Let’s go forward and drive our health delivery system on the wheels of a national e-health information management platform to assure optimal provision of a worldclass health system.
Today is the 344th day of 2020. There are 22 days left in the year.
1951: The United States invokes its Trading with the Enemy Act to prevent Chinese people in the United States from sending money to Communist China under extortion threats.
1962: Tanganyika becomes republic within British Commonwealth.
1975: Death toll is put at 160 in two days as war rages between Muslims and Christians in Beirut, Lebanon.
1982: South African troops stage a predawn raid on
Maseru, the capital of Lesotho,
United States.
1905: Separation of Church and state in France is decreed.
1941: China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy.
1946: Indian Constituent Assembly is boycotted by Muslim League. in an effort to kill suspected members of the African
National Congress, the black nationalist group banned in South Africa.
1987: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meets with US President Ronald Reagan in Washington one day after the Us-soviet nuclear arms treaty is signed.
1990: Poles elect Solidarity labour union founder Lech Walesa president in free elections.
1991: Gorbachev calls new Commonwealth of Independent States “illegal and dangerous”.
1994: US President Bill
Clinton fires Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders after learning she had told a conference that masturbation should be discussed in school as a part of human sexuality.
1998: British Home Secretary Jack Straw rules that Spain can start proceedings to extradite former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet. Chile withdraws its ambassador from Britain.
1999: US Army private
Calvin N Glover, convicted of bludgeoning fellow soldier Barry Winchell to death, is sentenced to life in prison. Prosecutors accused Glover of homophobia.
2001: The United States discloses a video in which Osama bin Laden says he was pleasantly surprised by the extent of damage from the Septenber 11 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
2002: The Indonesian Government and the Free
Aceh Movement sign a peace agreement to end the rebel group’s 26-year-old separatist insurgency in Aceh province, which left as many as 30,000 people dead.
2004: Canada’s Supreme
Court rules that gay marriage is constitutional, a landmark opinion allowing the federal government to call on Parliament to legalise same-sex unions nationwide.
2010: In Britain’s worst political violence in years, furious student protesters rain sticks and rocks on riot police, vandalise government buildings and attack a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, after lawmakers approved a controversial hike in university tuition fees.
2011: European leaders agree to redefine their continent — hoping that by joining their fiscal fortunes they might stop a crippling debt crisis, save the euro currency and prevent worldwide economic chaos. Britain says no, risking isolation.
2012: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez heads back to Cuba for a third cancer surgery after naming his vice-president as his choice to lead the country if the illness cuts short his presidency.
2013: American and British intelligence operations have been spying on gamers across the world, media outlets report, saying that the world’s most powerful espionage agencies sent undercover agents into virtiual universes to monitor activity in online fantasy games such as World of Warcraft.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT John Milton, English poet (1608-1674); Karl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (1742-1786); Claude-louis Ertholle, French chemist (17481822); Kirk Douglas, US actor (1916-2020); Bob Hawke, former Australian prime minister (1929-2019); Judi Dench,
British actress (1934-): Beau Bridges, US actor (1941-); John Malkovich, US actor (1953- )
— AP