Last week, a large volume of sand and soil was removed from the foundation excavations of a hotel in Negril, and the ensuing commentary has focused on whether the investor had the correct permits and licences. The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET)...
It may be expecting too much for guidance counsellors (presumably predominantly Christians) to be stalwarts of objectivity, impartiality and compassion when offering guidance to students who have problems with their sexual orientation.We hope that...
The initiative unveiled more than a week ago by Chief Justice Zaila McCalla to deal with the backlog of cases in Jamaica's Supreme Court has already been endorsed by this newspaper, but we still look forward to the outlay of a broader, and obviously...
President of the Jamaica Association for Guidance Counsellors in Education (JAGCE), Nina Dixon, recently revealed that some of the approximately 800 guidance counsellors who work in schools are refusing to counsel students who identify as gay or...
In June 2013, wealthy, drunk 16-year-old Ethan Couch sped through his residential Texas community doing about 70mph (110kph). He lost control, sideswiped a parked vehicle, ploughed into and killed four people standing on the sidewalk - youth pastor...
In honour of Martin Luther King Jr Day, here is United States ambassador to Jamaica, Luis G. Moreno's, remarks at the 278th anniversary celebration of the signing of the Maroon peace treaty on January 6, 2016.Let me start by once again extending a...
Chairman of UK Athletics Ed Warner recently proposed that all world records be expunged. This is one of a number of poorly thought out ideas that has come from Mr Warner. President of the JAAA, Dr Warren Blake - like just about everyone else -...
Dick Pound may be right about the level of corruption in the IAAF and its need for cleansing. But he is wrong about the choice of the man to do the job, although we are hardly surprised at his endorsement of Sebastian Coe. Lord Coe cuts the profile...
The controversial Maritime Drug Trafficking (Suppression) (Amendment) Bill 2015, now having been passed in the Senate last Friday, without the support of the Opposition, is heading back to the Lower House for the Senate's amendments to be considered...
The world is not short on people with experience in different fields. However, despite that, there are not many revelations/solutions forthcoming for the global issues that exist today.The next two and a half years will be critical, particularly in...
The truth is, Lady Saw had long ago indicated that her mind was more on the metaphysical than the physical: "Mi worry bout the coming of God, not the coming of man" (Man A Di Least Ah Mi Problem). I don't think she could have put it more pointedly,...
On Christmas morning, a telephone call woke me up at 5 a.m. It was FLOW reminding me that payment of my monthly bill was overdue. It must have been a robocall from a very badly programmed robot. No self-respecting human being would call anyone that...
What the Anglicans accomplished last week was a fudge, not, as being claimed, prevention of a schism. It would have been less stressful, and ultimately better, if they had embraced Justin Welby's pre-conference ideas for transforming their global...
It is more than tongue in cheek to suggest that a political party in power would set out, like a tired and frustrated tennis player down by two sets to nil, to deliberately hit the ball in the net or outside the baseline just so that his opponent...
Barack Hussein Obama, elected 44th president of the United States, is putatively the first black president. He came into office in the midst of a rapidly deteriorating economy. He has pulled the economy around to a point of respectability and...
In 1953, eight years after I was born, the American science-fiction and fantasy writer, Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 about an America in which books are outlawed and 'Firemen' are hired to burn them. The name comes from the auto-ignition...
Ministry of Agriculture statistics tell a significant story of improved performance in agriculture in 2014 and 2015, especially in the production of domestic crops. This was achieved despite debilitating drought conditions in many farming...
Politicians on both sides are busy falling over each in their efforts to demonstrate who loves 'poor people' more.While this is going on, the citizens of Jamaica are left unprotected in a system of justice that has serious shortcomings and needs...
The research done by highly recognised international organisations, support assertions made by president of the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association (JGRA), Leonard Green, that investigations into the current 'bad gas' scenario plaguing the island...
Were it our call, the greater probability is that our choice would be for Raymond Pryce to remain a member of Jamaica's Parliament. He is relatively young, bright, articulate, apparently not corrupt or tribal, and seemingly serious about the...
LGBT propaganda claims that gay and lesbian people are born, not made. Therefore, they would have us believe that we should expect to find gay and lesbian boys and girls in Jamaican primary and high schools.The truth is that there is not a shred of...
I feel it was quite ludicrous that the West Indies turned down the offer by Australia captain Steve Smith to make a game of the recent third Test in Australia. It's one thing to have to support a poor team; it's another to support a spineless bunch...
That the People's National Party (PNP) has historically shown itself skilled at mobilising, organising and electioneering is beyond question. After all, this is the same political movement which condemned the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to the...
It is an absolute shame that for many students, the guidance counsellor is the last person they would go to for support or assistance when they need it most. This has been the case for as long as I can remember and, seemingly, not much has been done...
Recently, Vivian Crawford, pro-chancellor of the University of Technology, told me that I must go and watch the play Guilt Trip. So off I went to the Little Little Theatre to watch another play by Basil Dawkins. Dawkins tackles the perennial issue...
