This past Tuesday, Parliament was debating an increase in the minimum wage piloted by Dr Fenton Ferguson. In the course of some back and forth and banter, Mr Everald Warmington saw it fit to refer to Lisa Hanna, the member from South East St Ann, as...
It's not the first time, as he did last week, that Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips has signalled the administration's intention to use to the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) to divest some of the companies the Jamaican Government has in its for-sale...
In 1984, the telephone company made me wait eight years for the one and only line to my medical practice (near Half-Way Tree). Yet, one of their workers got service the day he moved in next door. And, for one entire Sunday, the Cable and Wireless...
A major lacuna has been cemented in the overhyped campaign finance bill, which makes the legislation supremely useless.The bill has been constructed on the premise that money wins elections and that an unchecked flow of money could lead to a...
There is no doubt that the Bible is the best guide for teaching us how to conduct business transactions in an honest and ethical way.The shaking of the global marketplace is the result of the treatment of the poor and the less fortunate in business...
Any half-baked psychologist who earned his advanced degree by sitting under a lignum vitae tree and counting butterflies would by now have concluded that JLP MP Everald Warmington does not like himself.The troubling trend of his political...
One can readily recall having heard multiple times that children are our future. As a country, we must question how are we preparing them for the future or whether they will live to be the future. In the last two preceding calendar years, we have...
Last year, our Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) was recognised as the top-performing index worldwide. This is a great achievement of itself. It is also a great signal of the tremendous economic potential that exists in Jamaica.One point on which we can...
Wat a way certain people a run down Sista P fi call election! A wa mek? Ascorden to Constitution, election no ha fi call so till way down a April 2017! Di way me seet, since Sista P never call election last year, she might as...
It is the nature of the game that the Government has been mocked, and branded as incompetent, by the political Opposition for the failed effort to divest Kingston's Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA). And on the face of it, that is what...
"Which is it to-day," I asked, "morphine or cocaine?" He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. "It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?" The Sign of Four, Sir Arthur...
The vigour and energy with which Health Minister Horace Dalley is pouring into the anti-Zika virus (ZIKV) campaign suggest that important lessons have been learnt from the chikungunya fiasco which killed some persons, sickened many, and cost Dr...
Published:Friday | January 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMSam Carty
State-of-the-art prison gift: insult or opportunity?The Jamaican society is notorious for missing opportunities, then lamenting the flubbed chance. We take pride in miring ourselves in self-pity and pass on this legacy to succeeding generations as...
Everyone has an ethical system by which they live and act. Not everyone, when making a moral evaluation, or taking a decision, consciously brings to bear on the situation a set of moral principles or yardsticks. But whether aware of it or not, that...
A few days ago, The Gleaner carried a story where the old boy hierarchy of Calabar, Jamaica College and Kingston College were asking for more grandstand tickets for the Saturday at Champs. Saturday's tickets for Champs have long been the most...
Big up Jesus and all, but I have issues with the national prayer breakfast. My personal prayer is that one year they would just box all the food intended for those in attendance, take to the streets, and feed the hungry.As far as I can see, it's one...
A worrying statistic has emerged about the potential competence of pharmacists in Jamaica, but which also says much about how people are educated here and the urgency for reform. The demand is for acceleration away from the pedagogy of rote to one...
Recently, Reverend Ronald Thwaites, the honourable minister of education, preached at the funeral service for Monsignor Richard Albert, his fellow Roman Catholic. The sermon was passionate and called for compassion in dealing with each other because...
We have an uncanny knack for missing the point in this country. We have erroneously reduced the issue relating to guidance counsellors supporting students around sexuality and related matters to be about supporting them to accept or reject their non...
Prevention, the saying goes, is better than cure. And more so when there is really no effective cure.In that context, there is obvious logic in the health ministry's suggestion to Jamaican women to delay pregnancy by up to one year, echoing a call...
In response to Professor Carolyn Cooper's column of Sunday, January 17, 2016 titled 'FLOW + LIME = minus zero', in which she outlined her concerns re the FLOW-LIME business, we wish to use this medium to address her absolutely valid concerns.We'd...
One of every five Latin Americans between the ages of 15 and 24 wakes up every morning with no school to attend or paid job to do. Bogged down by economic constraints, early pregnancy, violence, or low expectations, they are the so-called 'ninis'...
The image of a super-confident and bubbly Portia Simpson Miller has given way to a prime minister who has played hide-and-seek for so long that she doesn't remember where she hid herself.This is one time I feel certain that she wishes our...
When the commission of enquiry into the West Kingston security operation of 2010 begins its final sitting next month, we will no doubt be told whether anyone, and who, responded to their invitation to the public for written submissions on how to...
Published:Sunday | January 17, 2016 | 12:00 AMGordon Robinson
So, this is being rushed off while Old BC is at the dentist. If you see her, act normally. Don't say anything. One waiting room piped a radio talk-show host asking a caller, unimpressed with Jamaica's passing 10 IMF tests, where would Jamaica be if...
