Now that there is bipartisan support for the idea of drawing a red line under criminal cases that have lagged in the courts for too long, we hope that Delroy Chuck, the justice minister, will be able to implement such a policy by his proposed year-...
Audley Shaw's delay in presenting a Budget for the new fiscal year that starts April 1 is quite understandable. For Budgets are, in part, tools of economic policy, so the new administration obviously wants the document to represent its fiscal...
The late Professor Carl Stone used to tie his polling of political opinions, behaviour and voting trends to an area of academic study that he taught for several years at the University of the West Indies which undergirded his statistical findings....
It was eerily quiet and well after midnight that fateful day three years ago as Fred shook his wife awake and told her he was leaving.A self-employed welder, he augmented his income by doing guard duty at a huge house high on a hill about a mile...
It is better to fail at something you love than inevitably fail at something you don't particularly like. I wish I had known this expression when I was in high school.I doubt I would be a lawyer now, especially if I had known how saturated the legal...
The psyche of the black race has been dealt a heavy blow by the English language. Virtually every known thing can be rendered evil, wicked and nasty by prefixing it with the word 'black'. Sheep, market, list, magic, heart, mail, spot, mark, mood,...
The enforcement of law in Ocho Rios is gradually taking on the characteristics of an apartheid system. In a previous article, I made mention that downtown Ocho Rios is treated entirely differently from uptown Ocho Rios. It does not take long for a...
President Obama's trip to Cuba is, of course, of historic proportions. It has been suggested - correctly - that this is one of the most important trips of his presidency.Much of its importance turns on symbolism. Obama, the first African-American...
We wish were surprised at the repudiation by the civil service union of a move by the authorities to prevent the promotion of civil servants who fail to comply with the anti-corruption law that requires them to file annual declarations of their...
International Women’s Day was celebrated on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 under the theme ‘Pledge for Parity’. The theme is a relevant one, as gender inequality has significantly hindered the progress of women globally. In 2015, the...
I refer to the recent Gleaner article titled 'Abuse of power? DPP under fire for stopping trial before judge could rule on no-case submission' (March 13, 2016) and letter to the editor by Dujon Russell (March 17, 2016) treating with the same subject...
When I turned 50, I decided to steel myself and arrange to have a colonoscopy done. I knew that screening for colorectal cancer should begin at that age.In spite of my chosen profession, I really hate having to go to doctors, and I absolutely loathe...
When he steps off Air Force One and on to the warm tarmac of Cuba's JosÈ Marti Airport today, President Obama will become the first sitting US president to visit Cuba in nearly 90 years, leaving no doubt that normalisation between the world's...
It is a few days since he assumed his ministerial job, so Ed Bartlett may have been tapped for a speech before he had an opportunity to think seriously about his tourism portfolio and the structure of government in a changed economic paradigm.We,...
Published:Sunday | March 20, 2016 | 12:00 AMSteve Lyston
Most people, particularly those in business, define one of the characteristics of prosperity as having low unemployment levels while enjoying high levels of consumer demand, matched with increased buying power, for most of the population.However,...
International Mother Language Day did celebrate all over di world pon Sunday, February 21. Mi never hear gunfire bout dat eena Jamaica. Perhaps a chruu election did deh pon wi. But mi no tink seh a dat stop wi from big up di day....
Actually it's my long-time favourite, Gully Bop, who recently had me thinking about the dangers of social media. There's something to be said about social media's ability to facilitate the articulate minority or whatever you want to call them, but I...
The new political administration has been sworn in and responsibilities have been apportioned. There are some obvious ministries that could generate a bit of excitement and create a little benefit for the future. The ministry that most readily comes...
They may be making quiet, behind-closed-doors interventions, but Jamaica's private sector has been noticeable absent from the public debate on the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration's personal income tax proposals, which, it now appears, the...
It is there on social media and it exists at community level. "Mi a PNP and mi know sey JLP a fi rich people," said the young man who had stopped at a community shop while on his way to a construction site.As he spoke further, another youngster who...
There are some questions, especially in science and logic, which lead to intense speculation. For example, in the 1970s, the biologist, Stewart Brand, posed the riddle, "What colour would a chameleon take when placed on a mirror?" One scientist,...
The applause for the spanking-new highway linking Kingston to Ocho Rios has suddenly died down. This is after the proposed toll fees were revealed in newspaper advertisements this week.Motorists and stakeholders such as the Truckers Association have...
Published:Friday | March 18, 2016 | 12:00 AMEwin James
No doubt President Barack Obama wants history to remember him as the first American president to visit Cuba since the revolution. Nothing is wrong with that, but he should consider what his visit in March will mean...
I am sure Mark Wignall was not alone in having initial indecision about voting for his MP or the leader of a party to be prime minister (Gleaner 16/3/16). A separate ballot for election of the prime minister to be the head of government outside of...
The portfolios of agriculture and fisheries have been conjoined with industry and commerce into one ministry. Is this a wise move?The logic of this configuration, as has been explained, is that agriculture and fisheries are industries and commercial...
