Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM
Marion Hall's recent decision to get baptised again won't surprise anyone who has been following Lady Saw's flamboyant career. In a 1998 interview in the Uncensored series on FAME FM, the deejay frankly announced, "Lady Saw is a act."She describes...
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM
Jamaica is a vibrant democracy. We are one of only 26 countries that have changed government by the ballot and never the bullet. The country has distinctive things to offer to the world and, in some respects, we offer much more than expected.In...
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM
As year end looms, it's normal for us who still make claims to being human to reflect on 2015 and employ the natural hope that springs eternal in the human psyche.That, of course, causes us to recognise major errors in our lives and say it, even if...
Jamaica's police force got more than a bloody nose this year after failing to contain murders, which have been on the retreat for the five prior years.The commissioner of police, Dr Carl Williams, and the minister of national security, Peter Bunting...
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM
For my generation, cricket is still the glue that holds the West Indies together. It is also, for many of us, the common thread in our own lives. We are not all as extreme as Mr Smith of Hawthorn in this espncricinfo.com anecdote. One afternoon...
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMOrville Higgins
Schoolboy football sensation Alex Marshall was on a television sports programme recently where he said he is now going to put some more emphasis on his education, as he looks forward to his immediate future. He made it clear that while he wasn...
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest would have to settle for something less ... ."- Lee IacoccaWhen I attended York Castle High, I was not placed in the science grade. That...
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM
We note with concern the University Hospital of the West Indies' (UHWI) disclosure, from its acting chief executive officer, Dr Kevin Allen, that it is owed $1.2 billion in patient fees. What makes it worse, the hospital is planning to write off 50...
Many of us continue to endorse corporal punishment because we believe the slaps, beatings, and even torture that we endured from our parents, teachers and other adults for our 'bad behaviour' and, in some cases, inability to do something 'properly...
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM
The idea that God could become human is a "scandal to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles" (1 Cor 1:23). How could the Creator become part of the creation? Ah! The mystery of Christmas!But not so strange. For we are told that God made humanity...
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM
While the new year is generally seen as a time of renewal and rebirth, the Yuletide season is also a time of contemplation on the things of greatest....
On Monday, December 14, Steven Golding, Garvey scholar, reminded me that this year marks the 200th anniversary of National Hero George William Gordon's birth and that Gordon is the only legislator to be executed by the State. It is, therefore,...
I find it interesting, but not particularly surprising, that the media's bias towards the People's National Party (PNP) is becoming more blatant as each week passes.I say not surprising as the corporate interests it represents are no doubt some of...
"I'm going to try to form a government," said Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy as the results of the national election came in on Sunday night, "but it won't be easy." His right-wing People's Party (PP) still won the most seats in Parliament,...
It's getting a bit tired now. Despite our hope that the leadership of the Jamaica Teachers' Association would abandon its modus operandi to engage in chest-thumping, muscle-flexing, and arm-twisting, Norman Allen and his fellow unionists just won't...
Amid the sorrel blooms, whipping of fruitcake batter and screaming goats on death row, there is another standard feature of the Christmas season: communities teeming with work gangs swinging away with machetes at bush-covered sidewalks, roads and...
Below are excerpts from an address delivered at a meeting of the Rotary Club of Downtown Kingston on December 16. As you may be aware, The PetroCaribe Agreement, negotiated in 2005, is a bilateral arrangement between Venezuela and 18 other...
THE DOMINO Awards are named for the Khooky Khast of Kharacters from my teenage domino-playing years, including Dessie, the second-best domino player I know; the Dunce, who fell from a tree as a child since when he’s lived in his own happy-go-...
MARK GOLDING, Jamaica’s justice minister, may have become high by inhaling more than two ounces of the good stuff – populism, that is . Last week’s announcement of marijuana-exemption status for the Rastafarian-themed Rebel Salute...
Ladies and gentlemen, we are officially in the season. No, not Christmas or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, but the political silly season, and boy is the silliness in full swing. We really need to change our constitution, as our prime minister is apparently...
Its potential consequences are almost too frightening to contemplate, which is why the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) must provide further particulars about the manufacture of hollow building blocks in the island and hopefully assuage Jamaicans...
Everyone, it seems, wants their 'Christmas'. Hustlers and mendicants are flooding the traffic lights and shopping malls. Shop, store, stall owners and peddlers have stocked up and spruced up for the anticipated seasonal surge in spending. Charities...
The Caribbean governments and climate negotiators are happily celebrating that 1.5 degrees Celsius is in the text of the new agreement on climate change, the Paris Agreement, to be ratified next April and which would enter into force in 2020. It is good to...
Published:Sunday | December 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMHugh Innis
In a few days, Christmas will be here. It is one of those holiday periods that cause us to feel like caring human beings and inspires us to show that we care by giving of our love, our time and our material gifts with others, especially family and...
As arranged, we met at the back of a small, dingy bar high in the St Andrew hills where the quiet and seclusion were ideal for our agreement. Information on an islandwide poll conducted over the three days of October 30, 31 and November 1.As we sat...
