Commentary

Peter Tosh's birthday will be 'heartically' celebrated this Wednesday, October 19. A museum in his honour opens that evening at the Pulse Complex on Trafalgar Road. It's been designed by Art on the Loose (AOTL), a brilliant team of creatives out of...

Yes, Immaculate High School for girls continued its record of excellence with a 100 per cent score of all its students who sat this year's CSEC and passed at least five subjects, including English and mathematics. Just being nipped was Campion, which has maintained its stellar performance over the years...

Reductio ad absurdum. Three years of Latin in secondary school and that is all I remember of the Linguam Latinam, or is it Lingua Latina? My daughter Marsha, an English teacher, told me she is studying Latin dance, so maybe she might know.I think...

"They hit everything - hospitals, orphanages, schools," Hisham al-Omeisy told The Guardian newspaper six months ago. "You live in constant fear that your kids' school could be the next target."No, he's not talking about the...

Our heritage is that which has been passed down to us from those who have gone before us, which we maintain in the present, and pass on to future generations. This includes our history, myths, diet, clothing, taboos, language, music, folklore, mores...

Imagine your five-year-old self falling down and getting a cut. You're bleeding and in pain. You run to your parents frightened and in need of comfort. A harsh "Stop the crying, you'll be OK, man, cho!" is what you are met with. Stunned at the...

Seriously, how many times does Haiti have to get knocked down and rise again?In the past 12 years, Haiti has got direct hits from Ivan, Jeanne, Dennis, Wilma, Alpha, Tomas and Matthew. Additionally, the hits of 2008 seem by far the most cruel. Fay,...

Politicians often make stupid statements, which they come to regret, during election campaigns. Which we expect is the case with Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who, ahead of last February's vote, suggested that a victory for the incumbent People's...

As jerky and sometimes sordid as Jamaican politics is, we don't compare for excitement with this year's burlesque of United States presidential politics.For it is boiling down now to the issue of whether the most powerful nation on earth, in its...