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Heading our shortlist is the youngest Cabinet member: 38-year-old Andrew Holness, the education minister (a Seaga find) whose ministry operates in a poor country that will never be able to allow him to operate at his full competency level. He has what some would call a "caring" personality but he also will find it difficult to sail the seas with political pirates. He needs at least seven more years to toughen his hide, but he has to stop just short of flying the Jolly Roger. What will be the state of the JLP in 2017 when an election will be due?
Agriculture minister Chris Tufton is being touted in many quarters as a potential leader. It is hardly ever sensed by the general public that one of the first requirements for political leadership is the strength of the bile in one's system. Like love as a requirement for marriage, competency alone will never cut it in the chase for political leadership.
It needs tenacity and cunning in the fight and once one attains it, it takes more than a touch of ruthlessness to maintain that leadership and keep the troops in tow. Dr Tufton seems lacking in those "attributes".
House Speaker Delroy Chuck was born two days after me and his political claim to fame has been the "transformation" of the troubled inner-city community of Grants Pen. Made sedate as Speaker, he has been off the political radar. Rhodes Scholar, lawyer, lecturer at Norman Manley Law School, former newspaper columnist and author, Chuck would never survive the first round of a leadership fight.
The last two on the list are Daryl Vaz (47), Minister in charge of Special Projects and Information and Telecommunications, and James Robertson (44), Minister of Mining and Energy. Even those who say they have reason to dislike Vaz will admit that he has surprised many and has been a credit in his role of information minister. At times the de facto deputy PM and probably the person in the Cabinet closest to the prime minister, Vaz is an organisational master, at boardroom and grass-roots level and has assisted in the election campaigns of many MPs.
