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AJ spanned 44 years in politics, not 27   AJ Nicholson peruses a document during a sitting of the Senate. A J Nicholson stepped away from representational politics which spanned 44 years, and not 27 years, as reported in last Sunday Observer. Jamaica Observer archives show that in 1972, the same year that Nicholson was called to the bar, the People’s National Party (PNP) had won a landslide election, sweeping to power on a populist platform. He, like many other young intellectuals attracted by the party’s Black Power stance, joined the PNP. Four years later, in 1976, Nicholson offered himself for leadership and was appointed to run against Percy Broderick Jr, the former agriculture minister in Clarendon North Central now held by Pearnel Charles.Rock River falls in that constituency and Nicholson felt that he stood a good chance of winning. ‘If truth be told he ran and I walked’, Nicholson can laugh now about the wicked electoral beating he got from Broderick,” the newspaper

‘Butch’ Stewart backs $1.5-m income tax break Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart (second right), chairman of the Sandals/ATL Group, and Adam Stewart (right), Group CEO, speak with the service staff at Autobahn on Orchard Road in Kingston, yesterday. (Photos: Joseph Wellington) GORDON ‘Butch’ Stewart, chairman of the Sandals/ATL Group, which includes the Jamaica Observer, says Jamaica stands to benefit from the newly installed Government’s proposed income tax break for Pay As You Earn (PAYE) workers earning $1.5 million and less. The hotel mogul was speaking with the Jamaica Observer at the opening of Autobahn — ATL Automotive’s BMW division — on Orchard Road in Kingston, yesterday. “There has been so much loss in the value of the [Jamaican] currency that the $1.5 million tax break, in my view of understanding how money works, will give huge benefits to an enormous number of Jamaicans. These people will enjoy a better [standard of] living and they wil