The PNP had better get its act together - and soon. If not, it's in imminent danger of expeditiously completing its inexorable journey to irreversible irrelevance. Already, its leadership, creaking at the joints like Christine, the 1958 Plymouth...
Once again, families, friends, and colleagues have been plunged into mourning following the tragic loss of six lives in the Bog Walk Gorge. And then the next day, a young doctor also lost her life in a motor car crash. The National Road Safety...
You have to admire Jeremy Corbyn, the unlikely and beleaguered leader of Britain's Labour Party. As messy as it often is, he respects democracy.Less than a year ago, Mr Corbyn, a long-time member of Labour's left wing, was, in defiance of...
The brutal murder of three-year-old Nevalesia Campbell in Orange Hill, St Ann, has sent ripples of shock, anger and disgust across Jamaica. Murder is a heinous act, and the killing of a child would rattle any rational person. But the slaying and...
For the people in search of initiatives with which to combat the problem of violent crime in Jamaica's inner-city communities, there is no need for a reinvention of the wheel, as a former security chief, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, reminded last...
I must confess there are times when I struggle to write this column. Not that there is any shortage of material in my life that I can't creatively spin into a page and a half of content once a week, but since my interests extend beyond myself and,...
Obviously, the police killings of young black men in the United States is horrible and scary. Many respectable black leaders, young and middle-age alike, even congressmen, have related how they are consistently targeted and harassed by police...
Turkey's democracy is dead. It was dying anyway, as President Recep Tayyib Erdogan took over media outlets, arrested political opponents and journalists, and even restarted a war with the Kurds last autumn in order to win an election. But once part...
I still feel it for those poor students on TVJ's Junior Schools' Challenge Quiz who gave the wrong answer to that easy question, "In which Caribbean country did reggae originate?" One team said Trinidad and Tobago. The other countered with Barbados....
Neither Andrew Holness nor Keith Rowley took seriously our ironic suggestion that the latter delay his official visit to Jamaica until Mr Holness' CARICOM review commission completed its work and Kingston had something concrete - or otherwise - with...
If you ask reasonably informed citizens which public institution in their view is the guardian of the Jamaican Constitution, I would not be surprised if the Office of the Public Defender does figure among the list.Unfortunately, the Jamaican Supreme...
Can anyone fail to be impressed by the frightful efficiency with which Britain has changed out its rulers? The process has been remarkable to witness. Note how the weight of custom and social expectation has been an invisible guide to the political...
Crime continues to be a major challenge to Jamaica. The nature of crime has frequently been attributed to multiple reasons. Let us take, for example, the reason that says, 'If you are not involved in something illegal, you are not likely to be the...
First there was President Barack Obama. According to the Washington Post (April 26, 2014), "Obama is a parasite. He's also a fungus, a spider and an extinct lizard." Sounds like Donald Trump? But The Donald would not have been delighted unless he...
The third terrorist attack in 18 months has the French people reeling. Indeed, this dreadful event has people, the world over, nervous because several nationalities were numbered among Thursday night's victims.Terrorists have used airplanes,...
Published:Friday | July 15, 2016 | 12:00 AMKarl Bennett
I am responding to articles and comments reported in the media as coming from the chairman of the HAJ and the minister without portfolio with responsibility for water, land and housing, Ministry of Economic...
A Facebook post by Minister of Education Ruel Reid that went the rounds last weekend has caused some disquiet in church circles. In the Facebook post, the minister issued a warning and a threat.The warning: "Now that High Schools have been given...
The case with Jason Morgan continues to be hotly discussed by most people in track and field circles. I can understand why.'Dads' is the kind of guy you can't dislike. He is very big on social media, constantly sending inspiring messages. He's a...
It's being described as a development with far-reaching implications. It's the 'We Want Our Country Back' movement, and it is seemingly gaining traction.The Brexit referendum has pushed the globalisation-to-individualisation locomotive into gear,...
Jamaica's political leaders have offered the predictable welcome to Britain's new prime minister, Theresa May, noting the confidence placed in her by her Conservative Party colleagues and looking forward, during her tenure, to continued strong...
In the post-Cold War dynamic, there are many doubters of the relevance and usefulness of the Commonwealth. But for small, developing states like Jamaica and our neighbours and partners in the Caribbean and elsewhere, its potential - and why members...
It's frightening that so many of our current and former leaders are always so eager to propose and/or endorse the violation of people's rights - supposedly to solve crime and violence. One would expect that by now, they would appreciate (or at least...
Under Jamaica's Extended Fund Facility (EFF) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), significant adjustments are being made, especially with respect to reducing public debt and deficits, tax reforms and public financial management. The current...
Canadian Baptists apologised to the indigenous peoples of Canada during the recently held Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Annual Gathering in Vancouver, Canada, from July 4-9. Baptists have been part of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada's apology to...
It is to the credit of the Holness administration and its finance minister, Audley Shaw, that in the four months they have been in office they have maintained the fiscal discipline to which Jamaicans had largely become accustomed over the previous...
