Jamaicans in Jamaica have been accused of being lazy. That, coupled with a real shortage of jobs, has fuelled a dependence on remittance to the tune of US$2.23 billion in 2015 alone.The traditional Jamaican who emigrates in search of a better life...
As have all his recent predecessors and their security ministers, Andrew Holness has called for crime to be one of those issues to be removed from Jamaica's partisan discourse, even as he committed himself to "bold and decisive measures" to tackling...
It is not an exaggeration to say we live in a new era today. These are times when the interactivity and immediacy of social media has undone the stranglehold traditional media once had on the public sphere...
How did the Jamaica Public Service Company's (JPS) new pricing policy get the approval of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) after being initially rejected? In its last Tariff Application 2014-2019, the JPS requested that its price cap scheme...
Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2016 | 12:00 AMAndre Wright
Camille 'Sandy' Coke's feeble attempt to portray her family as misunderstood and maligned would be laughable were it not so deathly serious.In yesterday's Gleaner, she served up a sob story about being rounded up by the security forces in 2010 and...
We don't know if former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller had used the opportunity six months ago, when Nicolas Maduro visited for the 200th anniversary of Bolivar's Jamaica Letter, to have, as we suggested, a frank talk with the Venezuelan...
Published:Monday | May 23, 2016 | 12:00 AMFrank Phipps
The hypocrisy ofa politician shouldnot surprise anyone. Although action against corruption is long overdue for the problems in today's world, of all the persons taking offence at corruption, David Cameron is the wrong one to lead the charge.His...
The situation addressed by the auditor general is indeed a very serious problem for Bellevue Hospital, because it deprives the hospital of 673 active treatment beds, or 85 per cent of them of its active treatment capacity. What that means is that...
No government agency epitomises the urgent need for constitutional reform better than the NHT.One of Jamaica's most idealistic government policies resulted in NHT's creation in 1976 for ONE purpose only: "to address the housing shortage which...
Considered in the context of fairness and equity, the Opposition party has more than prima facie cause to complain about the Government's allocation of money for constituency work projects during yesterday's Labour Day activities. Constituencies...
Vaccines are biological preparations that provide active acquired immunity to particular diseases, and can provide years of protection from them. A vaccine typically contains a substance that resembles a disease-...
Recently, I found myself seriously contemplating whether I should eat lunch or buy gas.I never thought I'd live to ask myself this question, but as I used one phone to check my meagre bank balance and the other to sheepishly beg my barber if I could...
West Kingston is a blighted urban slum. Thousands of its residents live in squalor, or circumstances close thereto.An obvious but unstated subtext to the recent tour of the constituency by Horace Chang, and the parliamentary representative, is that...
Peter Phillips and Portia Simpson Miller, in their contributions to the Budget Debate last week, were at pains to embed in the country's memory the solid foundation for economic recovery and social protection which is the legacy of the 2012 to 2016...
Number three on the Jamaica Labour Party's 10-point plan for growth and job creation stated: "We will reform the tax system. This means leaving you with more of your income to support your family. This means lower taxes and a business-friendly tax...
Lickle before election inna February, Anansi go look fi Andrew Holness an Audley Shaw. Im tell dem seh im have one boss plan fi mek sure dem win. Dem seh, "Tell wi how it go!" Anansi seh, "It easy, man, easy. Tell di people dem...
With the near J$14-billion tax package to offset this fiscal year's J$12.5-billion giveback in personal income tax, the Holness administration removed an immediate threat to Jamaica's fiscal stability and its International Monetary Fund-supported...
For decades, an undereducated Jamaican electorate has been encouraged to define 'constitutional reform' as elitist agitators' academic masturbation having nothing to do with Jamaicans' daily bread and butter.This adroit misdirection has been the...
True story! I was speaking with my overseer at The Gleaner when he inquired what subject I might be thinking of writing on this week."The first Budget of 2016," said I, acknowledging that there will be supplementals when Audley comes back for more...
The presidential primary elections to select the nominees for the Republicans (GOP) and Democrats are almost at an end. The results so far have made New York real estate mogul, Donald J. Trump, the presumptive nominee of the GOP. The contest for the...
"Someone tell Kim Kardashian and Beyonce Knowles to have a celebratory buck's fizz, because a study conducted by the University of Oxford reveals women with bigger bums are stereotypically smarter and healthier. If ever there were an excuse to have...
There's one more reason why confidence in the administration of justice in Jamaica is being steadily eroded. It has to do with the tardiness of judges in handing down their judgments after a case has been concluded.People who feel they have been...
There is no doubt that mining generates huge profits. Mining companies make so much money that they are able to relocate whole communities resting on top of bauxite reserves, providing land and fully built homes. Mining companies can afford to...
To tell the truth, the House of Representatives is often a boring and unproductive place to be. The proceedings last week Thursday started 45 minutes late and the bombast, posing, taunting and pedantry often overwhelm the instances of engaging...
The president of the JAAA, Dr Warren Blake, was in the Observer earlier this week saying that the organisation will now toughen its stance on those who wish to switch allegiance from Jamaica to compete for another country.Under IAAF rules, athletes...
