Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2015 | 12:00 AMDonovan Nelson
This is in response to an article published in The Gleaner of April 28, 2015, titled 'The Government's debt-to-GDP mirage' by Fayval Williams, deputy spokesperson on finance and member of the Jamaica Labour Party's Economic Advisory Council, which...
Published:Wednesday | April 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMDevon Dick
The Reverend Clarence 'Sam' Reid' was a public pastor because his pastoral responsibilities were not confined to his congregations at Calvary Baptist and Salt Spring in St James. He saw the community and country as his parish. He understood Jesus'...
A little over a week ago in Miami, Richard Byles, the president of Sagicor Jamaica, and Gregory Ramkisoon, the founder of the Mustard Seed Communities, were feted at a gala dinner.That, of itself, is hardly surprising. Monsignor Ramkisoon runs a...
Jamaica loses 19 movie stations from cable come May 31. Owners of these stations (and 79 others) have complained that Jamaican cable operators have no licensing agreements with them to carry the programming. As a result, the Broadcasting Commission...
In cricket terms, our friend and leading theist bowler, Ian Boyne, has once again been delivering a series of philosophical no-balls at the stumps of atheism, and perhaps a few deliveries well wide of the stumps altogether. Bowling to Dr Patrick...
On Saturday last, 15-year-old Amoya Brown was chopped to death alongside her 25-year-old (and it pains me to have to write such slackness) boyfriend by a neighbour who had gone berserk in the community of Drumilly, Claremont, St Ann. Amoya lived...
The recent troubles of Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) notwithstanding, there is little doubt that, on balance, the organisation has been good for Jamaica. Over the past decade and a half, even if sometimes with excessive stridency, it opened new...
Professor Colin Gyles, in an article in yesterday's Gleaner, made some assertions on which I would like to comment and shed some light. Professor Gyles was responding to a comment by Professor Carolyn Cooper that the UTech dental programme "hasn't...
During the Budget season in 2013, approximately 16 months after the People's National Party (PNP) Government started its reign, the Ministry of Finance, via the Fiscal Policy Paper dated April 18, 2013, projected the debt-to-gross domestic product ...
Having been blocked in his effort to recreate a government monopoly for the importation of refined sugar, Derrick Kellier, the agriculture minister, has hatched a new scheme to undermine competition, ruin manufacturers, and send even more Jamaicans...
Published:Monday | April 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMColin Gyles
I read with dismay a very unfortunate reference to the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), in last Sunday's Gleaner (April 26, 2015) by the eminent UWI Professor, Carolyn Cooper. Professor Cooper said:"Instead of specialising in professional...
We are at a loss why Shernet Haughton is still hanging around in the Hanover parish council and why there is this seeming lack of urgency by the People's National Party (PNP) to cut her loose. The party's seeming inertia could very well read as...
NOW THAT the report on the performance audit of the National Housing Trust (NHT) has been laid before Parliament, the relevant committee of the House of Representatives should move post-haste to discuss its findings and make recommendations for the...
Minister of Youth and Culture, Lisa Hanna, is under fire for comments that she recently made supporting the repeal of Jamaica's abortion laws. Her statements have earned her a 'Letter of The Day'...
I recall watching a Walt Disney series called, The Promise Of Things To Come. They highlighted futuristic predictions based on the trajectory of global social and scientific advancements. The series was always entertaining and enlightening.However,...
This is a response to an article titled, 'Why are so many Christians not nice people?' by Dr Michael Abrahams published April 20, 2015. I can call myself a cook when I'm able to throw some things together in a pot and live, of course, outside my...
The Jamaican Bar Association adopts the comments of Lord Justice Clerk in the case of Re Petition of McMahon and Others that "membership of the legal profession is a privilege". He said, in the exercise of that privilege, we "undertake a duty...
'Craven choke puppy', a well-known Jamaican saying that is complemented by an interpretation to make sure you are capable of tackling the task at hand. The build-out and operation of the logistics hub, as generally spoken about, is a massive...
The development of Jamaica's logistics hub has been billed as the next major driver of economic growth in Jamaica. A logistics hub is a regional cross-docking point where products from multiple supply sources arrive and are sorted and delivered in accordance to the needs of the destination points...
Published:Wednesday | April 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMDan Theoc
The electricity sector in Jamaica is at a critical juncture. When we consider the fact that the average cost of electricity now stands at US25c per kilowatt hour (kWh) for residential customers,...
Believe it or not, influential academics are insisting that there are far too many universities in the UK. Of course, they're not using our colourful language - university fi stone dog! But it amounts to the same thing. Universities are in such...
The proposed increases in the fines under the Road Traffic Act don't bother me at all. I don't plan to be getting any. Plus, in keeping with the devaluation of the dollar, there had to be an updating of the ticketing regime. But most of all, what I...
If the pronouncements of Robert Montague, the chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), are to be taken at face value, the party is recapturing its relevance and has a coherent message to deliver to voters.This newspaper hopes so. For a viable...
Published:Friday | April 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMTony Deyal
The Nation newspaper published this article on March 30, 1993 and my column has appeared in that paper, the Trinidad Express, the Jamaica Gleaner and the Kaieteur News since then. My readers and I throughout the Caribbean and the diaspora have now...
When it has been confirmed that a public official has recommended 11 family members and other connected persons for contractual engagement with a local government, it may be moot that the public can find no other word to aptly describe such actions...
