Chaos will reign in any country where parents abdicate their responsibility to guide their children and set good examples for them to follow. In too many instances in this country, parenting is a joke, with the result being that maladjusted, rank...
In a June 6 letter in The Gleaner, a writer recommended that the age of consent be lowered to 14. This is great news. Great for the mothers who are busy pimping out their daughters even before that age. Great for the predators who are forced to find...
In large swathes of Sudan, and many other countries around the world, great numbers of people believe that Omar al-Bashir is a murderous thug, who countenanced genocide and other crimes of inhumanity against his own people. In Darfur, in western...
Long before the domino game began, Haemorrhoid was already in full flight.He'd turned up early only to find Gene Autry, me and The Beast sitting idly waiting for a fourth. For those coming in late, Haemorrhoid (real name Ernest H. Flower) was...
Proposals to update our traffic laws are confusing and need improvement. The letter ('Proposed traffic law changes confusing') by Patrick D. Robinson, published in The Gleaner of June 13, 2015, is revealing. He makes the valid observation that many...
Some fathers don't deserve a happy Father's Day. There was an exchange I once overheard. A woman said, "Pickney a problem," and a man in earshot retorted, "Only if you put dem pon yu head." It was a very loaded comment. One of complete apathy shared...
After the regional team's latest capitulation in a Test match, to Australia at Sabina Park on Sunday, Denesh Ramdin served up the familiar and vapid fare of losing West Indian captains - of lessons supposedly learned, positives to be taken away from...
As Father's Day approaches, I have been reflecting on some of my funny, bizarre and scary fatherhood experiences. The joyride began on the day that my first child, my daughter Aliyah, was born. She came nine weeks early, and weighed only 3lb...
Consumer protection and customer service remain paramount for the newly merged telecommunications company Cable and Wireless-Columbus. The merged entity seeks to engage all stakeholders. Cable and Wireless/Columbus has stated its commitment to:1....
There has been a practice by the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) to commence investigations into the award of contracts by the state to external entities, even before a deal has been signed.In fact, there is ample evidence of the OCG causing...
Everyone is looking for change, but it will be difficult to have any change unless one is transformed. Everyone is promising transformation, to the point where they are dubbing themselves transformational leaders; but all they are doing is...
Ever since the person formerly known as Bruce Jenner made his very private life very public as he transitioned to and debuted as Caitlyn Jenner, the feminised version of his former self, a great deal of focus and debate has arisen regarding '...
There is as yet no obvious hoisting of the white flag on the part of the Simpson Miller administration. But judging from how quiet they have gone on the matter, the proposers of the Goat Islands logistics hub project have been battered into...
There was a time when dancehall DJs lived in downtown ghettoes. And they knew their place. No moving uptown into supposedly exclusive neighbourhoods and bringing their blasted noise to upset nice and decent people.Bob Marley was not a DJ, but he was...
American identity politics can be tremendously entertaining. Let me give an example. Currently, there's a scandal rocking Spokane, Washington, because Rachel Dolezal, the 37-year-old president of the NAACP chapter (that's the National Association...
As hard as he tries to prove the contrary, we are yet to be convinced that Andrew Holness' leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is beyond redemption. Just recently in England, for instance, he embraced our idea of giving the vote to the...
The task of driving development and the concurrent job and economic growth is of the highest priority in Jamaica, yet we seem unable to get anything of worth in this regard.We are a maritime nation - an island that sits on one of the world's most...
The legislature has turned its attention to the fishing industry by introducing a bill that seeks to impose massive fines and longer prison terms for persons convicted of illegal fishing activities that are deemed inimical to the livelihoods of...
Published:Thursday | June 11, 2015 | 12:00 AMTony Deyal
Earlier this week, I saw the Trinidad and Tobago Senate discussing the management and better legislation of gambling, and it took me back to the old days when we took a chance to play rummy under the neighbourhood street lamp and police raided....
No other politician claims love for the people, specifically the poor, more than our prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller. The genuineness of Mrs Simpson Miller's public claims of concern for the poor,...
"In my nine years in this organisation, there has never been a town hall meeting, a candid and direct dialogue with the secretary general," said a staff member, to our surprise, during just such a forum we organised during my first full week as...
Most people, I believe, would agree that the following three traffic offences are tantamount to the single offence - that of disobeying the police. (a) Disobeying directions or signal of constable in execution of his duty. (b) Driver of motor vehicle failing to obey commands of constable to stop or keep motor vehicle stationary. (c) Failing to obey police signals
The unacceptable reality is that, today, millions of children around the world, some as young as five, are still working for their survival and that of their families. Yet progress has been made and should...
We welcome Andrew Holness' embrace of this newspaper's advocacy for Jamaica to mirror France in giving its diaspora a vote and direct representation in the island's Parliament. We urge Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to follow suit.Indeed, this...
There is no doubt that the position of public-sector workers has deteriorated since their wages were frozen in 2009 under the JLP government, since renewed by the PNP until the present. While wages have remained constant, inflation has eroded...
