Leadership is often said to be the most pivotal issue in Jamaica's political fortunes. Who has it and who doesn't.Leadership involves enunciating a position and charting a course for a desired result within a specific time frame. This is applicable...
It is very easy to tarnish political representatives' character without reason, but I will be the first to say there are some of us in politics for an outcome rather than an income. It has also become clear that speaking the truth is rapidly being...
This week, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist camp, I knew what I had to do, but I did not know where to start. Should I write about the pigeon suspected of being a 'spy' for the Pakistani authorities?The Times of India story is that a 14-year-old...
As the country enters preparation mode for the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season, we note that Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has ordered the removal of persons who live near or on riverbanks.According to a report from the Jamaica Information...
Here's the problem facing the voter with a conscience: Do you support the candidate who has spent money on you, who has given you clear benefits, and who has promised even more if he wins again, but who has a dark side, who associates with people...
Unlike a lot of Jamaicans, I am not celebrating the fall from grace of Sepp Blatter. His detractors will tell you that he was nothing more than a dictator who used FIFA to enrich himself. There can't be any doubt whatsoever that a lot of things that...
We are happy that members of the constabulary appear to have imbibed a good dose of common sense and that many of the 3,000 or so who fell ill in recent days are again well. We hope they remain that way. Incapacity, by whatever cause, of a quarter...
The Gleaner's editorials, since at least 2011, have been quite consistent in taking an ambivalent position on homosexual sex based on the very popular and apparently impregnable premise of "what consenting adults do in private".As I urged in a piece...
The Government is finally telling public-sector unions the truth. But talking about its danger, or holding it above their heads like the sword so feared by Damocles is not the solution. The answer is for the administration to muster the courage to...
Recently, I was meeting with an attorney-at-law and member of the Jamaican Privy Council, an encounter which gave me an idea of how we could have a Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)-Judicial Committee of the Privy Council compromise. The idea is to...
The following are excerpts of an address by chairman of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), Dorothy Pine-McLarty, made at a town hall meeting last Thursday at the Montego Bay Community College. The meeting was hosted by the ECJ and National...
There are more than 20 children in my nine-year-old daughter's class, and according to her, she is the only one among them who does not own a cell phone or tablet and is the only one who is not on WhatsApp and Facebook.According to her, all of her...
We have always been a wicked and vile people. That's a fact. And I can already hear the protest to this statement. But pause, you rebutters. Take a deep breath. Follow me now.It was a considered act of wickedness and vileness that dragged us across...
There was much brouhaha surrounding the visit of Randy Berry, special envoy, human rights of LGBT, and Todd Larson, LGBT director from the State Department. From media personnel to callers and writers, and people in their various workplaces and on...
That Sepp Blatter's announcement of his attention to resign happened only four days after his re-election as president of FIFA implies that he is now privy to information that will make it increasingly difficult to extricate him from the deepening...
Now before you Shandy-bottle me, hear me out.There is a very real and present classism in Jamaica that we as a people are touchy about - as we should be. Too many times, we see blatant instances where those born into the privilege of inherited...
One Saturday afternoon long ago, Gene Autry and I sat down for a domino game against The Beast and The Dunce.The Dunce began, as usual, with his mantra, 'If a macca, mek it jook yu!', then smoothly segued into "A dis macca me a go jook yu wid" as...
I read with strong disapproval the headline in the May 31, 2015 edition The Sunday Gleaner which claimed 'Aubyn Hill to pay $46m'. The court ruling to which you referred is a case involving NationGrowth and the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ)....
Sandrea Falconer probably needs something to be exercised about. We would hope it to be something of substance.Ms Falconer, the minister in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for information, would, in that respect, have done...
It has come to my attention that many Jamaicans are very interested in what people are doing with certain body parts below their belts and above their knees. So, being the helpful person that I am, I decided to construct a guide to pelvic policing...
My fear of spiders is confined to one single type. It's a peculiarly named spider imported from the continent of Africa during the times of the slave trade. His guile allowed Anansi to survive many centuries here in the West.The folklore Anansi has...
Politics, said Charles Dudley Warner, makes for strange bedfellows. And if you're Sepp Blatter, it makes for pretty sordid ones, too.The world marvels at how, time and again, the FIFA president emerges unscathed as corruption scandals consume the...
It is time the Government and trade unions fully acknowledge and act on what they have long known: that the public sector is bloated and inefficient, which is a significant part of the reason why their members are poorly paid.The solution is not a...
After perusing an article published elsewhere in the media earlier this month regarding the registration of companies and business names in Jamaica, the Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) is constrained to remind would-be business owners that the COJ...
When an acquaintance I know to be a troublemaker called me up and excitedly panted: "Seet deh! You see de USA want fi tell wi how wi mus' carry on our own business!" I knew immediately he was complaining about the buggery specialists that Obama had...
