Today, motorists who use unleaded 87 and 90 gasolene will pay $5.67 more per litre and those who use diesel will pay $6.70 more per litre which is approximately $30 and $50 more per gallon, respectively.However, in a post-budget interview, a...
Published:Wednesday | March 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMMark Wignall
Age has its virtues, but also its many setbacks, not the least of which is cynicism. Cracking the over-60 age barrier would mean that one has seen much, and much of that would have been the same, year after year.At about this time each year, the...
Audley Shaw is optimistic that Donald Trump's presidency in the United States will be good for Jamaica. The finance minister has, twice recently, laid out his case, skimpy as it is, for this expectation.The last time Jamaica had relatively robust...
The opening of the budget debate by Finance Minister Audley Shaw on March 9 has generated quite a bit of discussion. Everyone is eager to share his concerns about the revenue measures announced and bemoan the impact it will have on the poor. It's...
In response to Daniel Thwaites' article, 'Kartel mash up society?', in the March 5, 2017 copy of The Sunday Gleaner, I am astonished to realise that a man like him could have such schizophrenic and irres-ponsible opinions. The impact of dancehall on...
Parliamentarian Ian Hayles' attempt to obtain an injunction to block the tabling in the House of a report of an investigation by Contractor General Dirk Harrison into a scheme that involved the Western Hanover member of parliament (MP) seems, on the...
Tambourine Army's emotionally charged, moving survivors' march from the Moravian Church at 127 Molynes Road to Mandela Park in Half-Way Tree Square was one of several held across the Caribbean that day. It was probably also the most heart-wrenching...
Maybe they reach sexual maturity very young in Scotland. What else could explain the fact that they are going to have another referendum on Scottish independence only three years after the last one?The Scottish referendum on independence in 2014 was...
Once upon a time, the vagina was a commodity. The narrative was, "if a man want it, him haffi pay dung pon it". If you listened to the stories people told, every day women exchanged what was in their panties for what was in a man's pocket. It was a...
If ever there was proof we urgently need a constitutional prohibition against the persistent imposition of taxation Nicodemus-style, without representation, this Budget is it.Congratulations (and much respect) are due to Finance Minister Audley 'Are...
The ruling by ISSA to allow the Ugandan student athlete representing Kingston College to compete, despite breaching two of its own rules, is a monumental act of injustice to the many other student athletes of Jamaica who had have to sit out a year...
Ten days ago, at a function to commission the Jamaica Defence Force's two new coastguard vessels, Prime Minister Andrew Holness warned against complacency in the face of global terrorism. Not because there have been no major incidents in the...
What would life be like without humour and laughter? Very boring, huh? We know that they help us to navigate our way through this cruel world by helping us to cope with stress, and that they make us feel good. But what is underappreciated is the...
We hope that Ricardo Nuncio was merely being hyperbolic with his warning about the danger posed by the Government's latest tax on alcohol to planned investments by his firm. Hopefully, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has, by now, reached out to the...
"We're heading in the right direction!" was Audley Shaw's somewhat muted Budget-opening rallying cry last Thursday. Of course, this was before the nearly $30-billion revenue tsunami that was to follow two hours later.In-between, there was a...
Recently, while in rumination witha close associate,we stumbled upon the realisation that coping with life in Jamaica often requires an unhealthy dose of self-medication, especially given the perpetually poor state of the health sector these days....
In general, nurses are the hands-on caregivers and day-to-day monitors for patients. Doctors are there to make management decisions and carry out interventions using data/reports from, and in association with, the nursing staff. In a hospital and...
There are many things in Audley Shaw's tax package that will stir substantial, raucous even, debate. But as significant as this will be, it will unlikely include, except for fleeting, politically inspired references, serious discourse on the...
Jamaican popular music songs give us some insight into domestic violence in Jamaica. I cannot say to what extent the songs represent the performers' views and behaviour, so there is no personal criticism...
On International Women's Day, Jamaica's first playwright, Una Marson, was celebrated with the launch of two of her plays, Pocomania and London Calling. They had long languished in the archives of the National Library of Jamaica. The plays were...
I planned this week to review the administration's first year's performance, so I still want to squeeze that in. And I intended to acknowledge, in passing, the media-assisted, but mostly unwarranted low-level triumphalism. But honestly, I don't find...
I was drawn to Josh immediately in the style of 'mi spirit tek him'. About eight years ago when I first met him, he was working in a small shop in a semi-rural, one-road town and taking home chump change for pay each week.He had no qualms in opening...
There are more words than things, and the English language is one of the worst culprits when it comes to using one word to describe a multiplicity of objects, phenomena, emotions and experiences."Take the word 'love'," one professor said when he...
Anyone who doubted the ability of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras to help solve crime may now be convinced of its usefulness after recent happenings at the 60-bed Andrews Memorial Hospital in Kingston.The barefaced daylight theft of...
Mr Holness is right. And most Jamaicans genuinely want to help the police. But we cannot give the police useful information if they do not provide us with accurate information. Garbage in, garbage...
