We have a perplexing way in which we use the stories of victims of homophobia and transphobia in advocacy to improve the human-rights situation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.Commonly, when there is an incident, there is a...
This past Sunday, most Christians celebrated the resurrection of Jesus the Christ from the dead. This is a foundational belief of the Christian Faith. If Christ be not raised from the dead, then Christianity is a futile religion. It would mean that...
Audley Shaw, and by extension the government, has done what this newspaper suggested they do all along: ask the private sector for help in sorting out an obviously muddled tax policy. And they should. In that regard, the Private Sector Organisation...
In the PNP trying to unravel the elements that led to its shock defeat on February 25, I thought it best to listen to the sound of blips under the radar so that, at the very least, I could determine the possible new alignments being planned.It is...
A country's debt-to-GDP ratio is a very limited measure of anything predictive, certainly when taken on its own. The debate ignited in 2010 with Reinhart and Rogoff arguing that anything over 60 per cent is likely to seriously dampen growth:'Growth...
Audley Shaw may have begun to appreciate what tax experts have explained since the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) unveiled its income tax plan ahead of last month's general election: that, as framed, it would endanger the country's fiscal stability and...
You dare not schedule a meeting in Jamaica at 1 p.m. on any given weekday. The issue won't be that you're cutting into office peak productivity time or perhaps that you're disturbing lunch. No. What's more important is that you'll be interrupting...
For the past year, there has been a tug-of-war between Government of Jamaica agencies, which are proponents of breakwaters at Negril, and the stakeholders, who wish to have the beach widened and no other intervention.So whose perspective is correct...
Published:Monday | March 28, 2016 | 12:00 AMDaynia Harper
The Jamaican electoral system has been significantly transformed since colonial times when, for instance, candidates seeking political office engaged in practices of skulduggery, malfeasance, and even imprisoned legal voters, replacing them with...
In doing what governments are prone to do - attempting to save jobs and shore up what, often, are uncompetitive and decayed industries - the Holness administration must be wary of mission creep and moral hazard.For if it is not careful, Jamaica's...
Jamaica is in the news again, and for all the wrong reasons. Recently a Jamaican flight attendant employed by JetBlue was approached for a random security check at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Flight...
What is probably the most significant element of what Portia Simpson Miller has called the Opposition's Council of Spokespersons is precisely what has received the least attention. The critique has focused primarily on the humungous size of the team...
Innumerable books, television shows and movies portray various people saving the entire world. From the fictional characters played by Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider to Tom Cruise in War Of The Worlds, there is no shortage of make-belief...
Published:Sunday | March 27, 2016 | 12:00 AMSteve Lyston
As we celebrate this Easter and enjoy the newness of spring, let us also embrace this time as one of new beginnings. We are in a season where God wants to do something new in the lives of various persons. In order for...
Published:Sunday | March 27, 2016 | 12:00 AMHenley Taylor
The issue of the public-sector workers contributing to their own pension has indeed become a moot point. This has taken on increased significance against the background of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement geared towards reducing public...
Political commentators have arrived at the early and correct conclusion than the present JLP administration will be judged more harshly than just about any other in the post-independence history of Jamaica.The JLP's biggest problem is that it is not...
When Prime Minister Andrew Holness leads his ministers and their key technocrats into a brainstorming retreat next weekend, they must have one overriding priority - to avoid anything that threatens to undermine Jamaica's macroeconomic stability and...
I felt it for Ms Sashakay Fairclough when I read her distressing column, 'Are degrees failing Jamaica?', published in The Gleaner on Wednesday, March 23. She's an attorney who discovered much too late in her career that the market for lawyers in...
It's perhaps odd behaviour, but I habitually inspect statues, particularly when travelling. If necessary, I will alight from a car on a highway to see who, or what, is being commemorated. I reckon that if somebody cared enough to chisel another...
Jamaica, like other small developing states, must contend in an increasingly global and competitive environment in which the great and the powerful are often more preoccupied with maintaining their dominance than with extending a helping hand.It is...
"If you believe what you like in the Gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself."- St Augustine (354-430)This weekend begins the holiest season of the year for the world's 2.2...
Another decision by Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has fuelled new questions about the prosecutorial discretion of that office.It has been reported that the Office of the DPP entered a nolle prosequi in the fraud case involving...
Alicia Silverstone said that she considered a box of fine European chocolates to be better than sex. American author and writer, Spalding Grey, disagreed. He thought skiing was better than sex. Lil' Kim is quoted as saying, "I haven't had sex in...
We have been failing our sexually active adolescents and youth because we have not been having frank conversations around sex and sexuality, including making provisions of comprehensive sexuality education. It is unfortunate that we adults have...
Tomorrow - Good Friday - when most Christians in Jamaica will commemorate the death of Jesus the Christ as the Saviour of the world, there will be a FIFA-arranged World Cup-qualifying football match at the National Stadium between Jamaica and Costa...
