With the exception of treason, murder is the most serious of all criminal offences in Jamaica. In my 38 years of practice, I have witnessed only one case of treason.The time-honoured and sacred principle - that serious offences attracting severe...
On Sunday, July 30, youth and technology will take centre stage at the 2017 Churches' Emancipation Lecture. Some might wonder what does technology have to do with Emancipation? Unfortunately, too many young persons believe that technology started...
Last week I spoke to how our out-of-touch education system facilitates the societal split that has given rise to two Jamaicas. I closed off then by indicating that there is little doubt that we need an education system that caters to the diverse...
In that extremely unique slice of a moment in May 2010, just before the security forces breached the barricades and forced their way into Tivoli Gardens, there must have been at least one man in the command structure asking himself what happens...
Howard Gregory's insistence of the illogic of Jamaica's buggery law is unassailable, as is his argument that Prime Minister Andrew Holness' promise of a referendum to resolve the issue is merely a smokescreen behind which to avoid confronting a...
In this time, many young people, fresh out of tertiary institutions, are either lining up to enter the workforce or are bedding into a new job. Some will be lucky, as they will be given guidance by those who have trod the road before. Others will...
Zofia Romaszewska, now in her 80s, was jailed during the years of martial law in Poland in the early 1980s. She is a national hero for her human-rights activities in the 1980s and is now one of President Andrzej Duda's advisers. Last week, she...
Every now and then, the conversation around the criminalisation of HIV and STI transmission is brought up. It was recently raised in a sitting of the joint select committee reviewing the Sexual Offences Act and other related acts. It was raised by...
We, too, lamented the long gestation of the law to establish a single anti-corruption agency, with the authority not only to investigate corrupt behaviour, but to independently prosecute cases. However, the extensive attention to the proposed...
"We need to remember that an essential resource in the political process is the unity of the People's National Party." - Peter Phillips.So it was that, on June 23, the PNP commenced a most brazen attack on citizens' freedoms to protect PNP "unity",...
I got so many emails from my July 11 article about new business ideas. People have a real interest in entrepreneurship, whether as a side hustle, or an escape from a job they hate, or they're tired of having a degree and still being jobless, or just...
Published:Monday | July 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMHorace Levy
Clear, hold, build. This is the declared path of the Zones of Special Operations (ZOSO) strategists. According to the Submission to the joint select committee of Parliament by the Office of the National Security Adviser, it's what was done in 2003...
We have no cause to question the Government's decision last year to purchase two offshore patrol vessels for the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coastguard from the Dutch shipbuilders, Damen Group.The larger ships enhanced the JDF's capacity to scout...
Linkin Park is badass rock band. Their debut album, Hybrid Theory, released in 2000, was certified Diamond (over 10 million copies sold), eventually selling more than 30 million copies worldwide and remaining the best-selling debut...
We exist in a four-dimensional world of time and space. Most people don't realise that 'time' is the fourth dimension. If I ask someone to meet me at a specific spot that can be defined by length, height and width, they will ask me, "when?"Our...
The lady and her son had travelled from a far country to seek help from the 'Public Eye' at JBC as to why the boy's papers to go live with his US citizen father were so delayed.In their presence, I called the father, linked the call with the...
It is now a year since the constabulary force pledged, in accordance with the recommendation of the Simmons Enquiry, to engage in an internal review of the conduct of its members who were part of the 2010 operation in west Kingston to arrest the...
When Moses 'Beenie Man' Davis and Michelle 'D'Angel' Downer were getting married in 2006, they asked guests to dress in white. The invitation reminded me of Toots and the Maytals' Sweet and Dandy: "All di people dem dress up inna white fi go eat out...
It's a sunny day at Oxford University and half the classroom is crying or paralysed with fear and the other half is looking at the data with anticipation of opportunity. I felt a wave of anxiety rise in me as I thought this conversation is not...
Some 22 years ago, my relationship with a radio station obliged me to watch every televised moment of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. I was obliged to give a daily two-minute commentary on the proceedings. I had to follow very keenly the evidence...
Military procurement is notorious globally for corruption, riddled with steroids-induced contracts to facilitate graft and kickbacks. It is equal opportunity feculence, afflicting both developing and developed countries.The Americans, the world's...
I'm hoping the Government buckles down and passes legislation mandating the registration of fathers on children's birth certificates. Were that to happen, I imagine DNA testing would suddenly get a lot more popular, and the suit-making industry in...
Fifteen high-powered weapons and 4,000 rounds of ammunition meant to augment the massive firepower of the island's criminal network are now in the hands of the police. Few details of the find have emerged. However, we feel that whether the find was...
Published:Friday | July 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMTony Deyal
Mark Twain is reputedly the first author to use the typewriter. He typed a manuscript for his publisher, who wrote back saying that Twain had left out the punctuation. Twain sent back a sheet filled with periods, commas, semicolons, etc. with the...
Money down the education drain?Thirteen years on from the publication of the task force report and the addition of some six new agencies to the Ministry of Education through the ESTP during the period, has the education system improved in its...
